The Edge of Reality (video game)

The Edge of Reality is a 2021 console video game developed by Maze Theory and published by Playstack. It features the Thirteenth Doctor's voice performed by Jodie Whittaker. It is an expanded continuation of the 2019 virtual reality game The Edge of Time, providing mostly the same experience with a few changes as well as an extra chapter to the story, featuring David Tennant voicing the Tenth Doctor and a new foe known as the CyberReaper.
== Publisher's summary ==
Wield the sonic screwdriver as you join the Thirteenth Doctor (voiced by Jodie Whittaker) on a quest to save the universe, and meet the Tenth Doctor along the way (voiced by David Tennant in a guest appearance).
Experience an unforgettable adventure through space and time, face terrifying monsters and solve a mind-bending mystery!
== Plot ==
=== Chapter 1 ===
The Doctor recruits someone to help her against a reality virus. The companion escapes a London laundrette, filled with incubated Hydrorcs, using the Doctor's sonic screwdriver she transmatted in the manager's office safe and calls the TARDIS, narrowly escaping a Dalek spaceship which detected the Gallifreyan technology.
=== Chapter 2 ===
The companion then goes collecting three zeiton crystals to help the Doctor use a vortex manipulator to escape the end of time and deal with the reality virus. First, landing in a jungle which is revealed to be only one of over 2,000 environments of the spaceship SS Lucia Minor. Guided by the female voice of Emer, the companion goes to zone 7 to discover the ship abandoned, with hybernating Zlysters. In the cockpit, the companion discover that EMER was the lifesupport AI of the ship which became sentient after Zlysters changed into Tazmas, massacred the passengers and planned to escape the ship and be captured by the Shadow Proclamation to gain attention. Emer and the Companion change the course of the ship, take the Time Crystal from the circuits and get inside the TARDIS after it was transmatted in the cockpit, Emer being downloaded inside the sonic screwdriver.
=== Chapter 3 ===
The Companion and Emer then go to Sir Manfred Grayle's home in late Victorian era London to get the Time Crystal from Magnus Greel's Time cabinet under it while escaping Weeping Angels. It is opened using the trionic lattice hidden in a gramophone.
=== Chapter 4 ===
After the Doctor explains that the First, the original living being in the universe and creator of all other life, is responsible for the reality virus, the companion and Emer take the third and final crystal in the Temple of the First on Metebelis IV, a sentient planet invaded by Bronze Daleks trying to harness the power of the crystal. The companion manages to get through by getting inside and using a Dalek casing. They then use the three crystals to open a stone structure and reveal the TARDIS.
=== Chapter 5 ===
The TARDIS has its interior deleted by the virus and by exiting it the companion arrives in the Inner Temple of the First and meets her. She explains her plan to kill the universe and rebirth its inhabitants better. The Doctor reveals that she lied to the companion: she did not need the crystals and planted them so that the companion could visit the locations so that they were the last to disappear since the First would spy on them. The Doctor met the First to try and failed to make her change her opinion of the universe. She then tells the companion to go to the visited location by thought while the universe is being destroyed to collect three disguised objects which actually are a Time Lord device created to put the First in a time loop.
=== Chapter 6 ===
to be added...
== Cast ==
* The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
* Tenth Doctor - David Tennant
* Emer - Jennifer Saayeng
* The First - Adjoa Andoh
* Daleks, Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs
* TBA - James Goode
* TBA - Amy Matthiessen
* TBA - Cosima Wagner
== Gameplay ==
to be added
=== Collectables ===
:Please note that this section contains spoilers for the locations of collectables within the game. Please skip this section if you don't want to know this information.
==== Journal pages ====
Page 	Location 	Image
The Tardis 	Chapter 1On a bench at the laundrette. 	to be added
The sonic screwdriver 	Chapter 1On a box in the manager's office at the laundrette. 	to be added
Daleks 	Chapter 1On a shelf in the Reception building at 76 Totter's Lane.	to be added
Dalek invasion of Earth 	to be added 	to be added
Hydrorcs 	to be added 	to be added
Miniscope 	Chapter 1Inside the Doctor's TARDIS, on the miniscope. 	to be added
The Reality Virus 	Chapter 1Inside the Doctor's TARDIS, on the floor. 	to be added
Zeiton 	Chapter 1Inside the Doctor's TARDIS, on the floor. 	to be added
Time Lords 	Chapter 1Inside the Doctor's TARDIS, on the floor. 	to be added
The pod 	Chapter 1Inside the Doctor's TARDIS, on the floor. 	to be added
The Tazmas 	to be added 	to be added
The CyberReaper: Origins 	to be added 	to be added
The Engineer's Story 	to be added 	to be added
The Lucia Minor 	to be added 	to be added
The Zlysters 	to be added 	to be added
The Doctor and Emer 	to be added 	to be added
Emer: Her history 	to be added 	to be added
The CyberReaper: The Legends 	to be added 	to be added
Victorian London 	to be added 	to be added
The Weeping Angels 	to be added 	to be added
The Time cabinet of Magnus Greel	to be added 	to be added
Trionic lattices 	to be added 	to be added
Sir Manfred Grayle 	to be added 	to be added
Metebelis IV 	to be added 	to be added
Dalek invasion of Metebelis IV 	to be added 	to be added
Dalek technology 	to be added 	to be added
The CyberReaper: Status 	to be added 	to be added
==== Miniscope items ====
Item 	Location 	Image
First Doctor’s ring 	Chapter 1In a washing machine at the laundrette. 	to be added
Seventh Doctor's umbrella 	Chapter 1In the manager's office at the laundrette. 	to be added
Ninth Doctor's leather jacket 	Chapter 1On a coat rack in the Reception building at 76 Totter's Lane. 	to be added
Fish fingers and custard 	Chapter 1In a shipping container at 76 Totter's Lane. 	to be added
Fifth Doctor's cricket ball 	Chapter 1On top of a barrel, tucked away in the shadows, near the entrance to 76 Totter's Lane. 	to be added
O 	Chapter 1On the TARDIS console. Accessible whenever inside the TARDIS. 	to be added
Twelfth Doctor's electric guitar 	Chapter 2At a campsite in the wooded area aboard the SS Lucia Minor. 	to be added
Seventh Doctor's hat 	Chapter 2In the wooded area aboard the SS Lucia Minor, sat on top of a tent at the end of a long trail. 	to be added
Second Doctor's recorder 	Chapter 2Through a hole in the ceiling found upon disabling the gravity aboard the SS Lucia Minor. The recorder is floating in the air.	to be added
Tenth Doctor's 3D glasses 	Chapter 2Found in the entrance to the Zlyster's chamber. 	to be added
Cup of Athelstan 	Chapter 3On the edge of a fountain in Time Park. 	to be added
Wanted poster 	Chapter 3On the pillar of a gate in Victorian London. 	to be added
Auton hand 	Chapter 3On the second floor of the stairwell in the home of Sir Manfred Grayle. 	to be added
Osiran Lodestone 	Chapter 3On the second floor of the stairwell in the home of Sir Manfred Grayle. 	to be added
Roboman helmet 	Chapter 4In the Temple of the First, to the right of the sliding panel on top of a destroyed pillar. 	to be added
Larry Nightingale's mobile phone 	Chapter 6Beneath a laundry basket in the laundrette. 	to be added
Eleventh Doctor's fez and bow tie	Chapter 6In the manager's office at the laundrette. On a shelf to the left of the power switch. 	to be added
Fourth Doctor's scarf 	Chapter 6In the manager's office at the laundrette. On a coat rail next to the back door. 	to be added
Cyberman head 	Chapter 6At 76 Totter's Lane. Picked up in order to proceed with the story. 	to be added
== Crew ==
to be added
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor says her "Spidey sense" is tingling. The Twelfth Doctor previously had no clue who Spider-Man was in The Return of Doctor Mysterio.
* The Doctor mentions Magnus Greel, whose time cabinet holds the second Zeiton-7 crystal.
* Stenza and Zygons have used Hydrorcs as guard dogs before; carnivorous beasts with a taste for humans.
* The Doctor recognizes Emer as "an emergent new lifeform".
* Emer's AI is uploaded to the sonic screwdriver. River Song's mind was likewise uploaded into her own sonic screwdriver in the Library.
* The Tenth Doctor mentions Romana, Susan, Jamie, Sarah and Adric.
* Skaro, Gallifrey and UNIT HQ get mentioned.
* The Doctor mentions "cities made of song", a callback to Survival's ending speech by the Seventh Doctor.
* The Tenth Doctor says "I really want to go" show Emer the universe. A clear joke about his final words "I don't want to go" in The End of Time.
== Notes ==
* In the Nintendo Switch version of the game, the textures are lower resolution and the colour grading is different, being much more neutral to its PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 counterparts; for instance, the Cyber-ship appears bright on the Nintendo Switch version, versus the other versions which are lit in a dark teal colour grade.
* The First acts similar to Perpetua from the DC comics, where she created a universe and went "inactive". When she woke up, she displeased with what had become of the universe and decided to recreate it. The First's reality virus acts similar to Perpetua's godly power.
* It's confirmed only Metebelis III is a dangerous planet, sitting between Metebelis I through IV.
* The Doctor has been trapped without the TARDIS numerous times before and had to use others' help to get it back.
* The Doctor once again makes the companion make a difficult choice since she doesn't want to do it.
== Continuity ==
to be added
== External links ==
* https://www.doctorwhotheedgeofreality.com
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