Starfield's New Game Plus Improves More Than Just Its Story
01.10.2023 - 13:53
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With most video games, a New Game Plus simply lets players spend more time with a game they enjoy, though it lacks story-based rationalization, but structured its entire main plot around making New Game Plus a part of its story. Most titles take the route of with a New Game Plus, where it might offer players a special weapon or ability, or a harder difficulty mode appropriate to higher level characters. Other titles have used the feature to provide alternate endings and additional story content, but few games have made it the centerpiece of the plot like .
If someone aimed to make a New Game Plus a continuation of the story, instead of solely a gameplay-oriented abstraction, they might come up with a plot similar to ’s to justify it. Other games have used New Game Plus to expand on their stories, certainly. The original requires several playthroughs to reveal its full narrative; the Sega Saturn cult classic followed a similar rubric to, with alternate versions of events building towards the true ending. ’s approach is still unique, as the goal of the primary campaign story is to reach a New Game Plus and continue exploration.
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Players should rush to ’s New Game Plus, disregarding side missions and random exploration, on their first playthrough, to preserve the pacing and momentum of the central story. The Contellation quest line features players racing to collect a series of enigmatic artifacts that reveal the path to the center of the universe. They learn that the Starborn are not aliens, but humans who have made a similar journey and left their home universe to travel the multiverse. The protagonist can sacrifice their physical body in the starting universe to be reborn in an alternate universe, becoming a Starborn. This Starborn experience is represented as ’s New Game Plus.
Because the player has entered another universe, it makes sense that they are able to redo quests, including the main story, since they have not already been resolved in that universe. If featured a conventional New Game Plus, it would break immersion for a simple miner to boast an expansive skill set. By making the player a Starborn, there is in-game logic to having a higher power level. When grants players the extremely powerful Ultima Weapon sword in its New Game Plus, there is no proper justification for Clive’s possession of the remarkably deadly blade named after humanity’s greatest foe.
Players can steal a good spacesuit early in their first playthrough, but completing the main plot and entering a new universe as a Starborn grants the Starborn Spacesuit Astra, the best suit in the game for exploration as well as combat. They also receive the