Whereas Adam Jensen’s character in Human Revolution was derived from dialogue choices made by the player, here we’re treated to a more straightforward version of the man an altruistic soul who genuinely wants to help people in spite of his own deepening well of personal and physical problems.
With the aid of his old hacker comrade Frank Pritchard, Jensen sets out to bring the smuggling ring down, save a few lives, and to generally give any Illuminati members the proverbial middle finger.īlack Light doesn’t have the strong start enjoyed by Swallow’s previous novel ( Deus Ex: Icarus Effect) as there’s quite a lot of exposition cluttering the first couple of chapters.
Instead he gets wrapped up in a fresh conspiracy involving a ring of smugglers who intend on using stolen Sariff technology for nefarious means. He encounters a world now firmly gripped by anti-aug sentiment and a tightly-monitored populace of desperate people who depend on those same augmentations for their very survival.Īfter regaining his strength, Jensen returns to Detroit with the intention of piecing his former life back together. Jensen awakens in a weak body with a fragmented memory and a year of lost time.
The explanation for Sariff’s escape is thin (especially since he is AWOL for the events of this book), but the visage of a barely functional Adam Jensen, as he’s unceremoniously fished out of the Arctic Ocean by the authorities, provides a much better stepping stone for author James Swallow to build upon. We’re informed that the Panchaea platform was in fact destroyed and that baddie Hugh Darrow was killed in the process, whilst protagonist Adam Jensen and his boss David Sariff survived the disaster. However, instead of acknowledging every multiple ending that its prequel put forward (à la Invisible War), Black Light opts to establish its own canon immediately. Deus Ex: Human Revolution was a smartly written adventure on the whole, but there’s no denying that its ending – that tried to distil Adam Jensen’s moral journey into four preachy live-action clip shows – proved disappointing for most. Deus Ex: Black Light acts as a prequel to the newly-released Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and as such it finds its genesis in the wake of the previous game’s rather weak finale.
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