Pathways: Lunar Society

### Rating

* T for Blood & Gore, Crude Humor, Language, Sexual Content, Simulated Gambling, Use of Alcohol and Drugs, Violence
* PEGI 16 for strong violence, scenes of intense and sustained horror, and depictions of games of chance.

### Genre(s)

* Action/adventure
* Interactive film

### Platform(s)

* PC
* PlayStation 5
* Xbox One
* Xbox Series X and S
* Android
* IOS

**Pathways: Lunar Society** is an action/adventure game and the sequel to 2021's Pathways: Jacob's Fortune.

## Plot

The rift opened by warlord Clip during his war on the Pathways Triangle causes extraterrestrial creatures to arrive on Planet Venture and threaten omnicide; the player's character harnesses the moonstones that opened the portal to create a defending golem before it is burned alive by one of the monsters. Recognizing this as an assault, the Butrus administration retaliates and the ensuing war destroys the Pathways Triangle.

Five years later, Pathways has been crudely reconstructed after being destroyed by alien attacks, with many of the fabled Pathways Guard having flown of the planet in a starship in pursuit of the aliens' planet of origin. Maitland, Robyn Jacob's girlfriend who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, stays optimistic in violent contrast to her allies and other identity, Zuzanna, while the player's character has premonitions of an impending apocalypse. Alien Sergeant Chech abducts all of the protagonist's allies except for Robyn and Maitland/Zuzanna after destroying their new home on the outskirts of Pathways, bringing them to the tzar of the Venturian Moon. The protagonist tries to win over the rest of Pathways in aiding their efforts to rescue their allies, but assistance is overwhelmingly refused, most believing that the main character is not strong enough to win. Despite this, the player's character builds a space shuttle to chase Chech and reach the moon; the protagonist's premonitions continue, this time of the demonic tzar possessing their allies and gaslighting them.

## Cast

* Demi Lovato as Athena and Tyra Beaulieu
* Olive Gray as Irena
* Charlyne Yi as Cybele Fujimori and Cyan Wu
* Jacob Tobia as Mojave Mohammed
* Casey Mongillo as Tyler Ferrari
* Jessie Buckley as Robyn Jacob
* Minami Suda as Maitland
* Malese Jow as Sergeant Chech
* Ami Koshimizu as Ms. Galaxy
* Bridgit Mendler as Omnicide Olivia
* Ellie Kemper as Macedon
* Kristen Stewart as Cinder Spark
* Kiersey Clemons as Byzantium Guardian
* Shelby Young as Sappho
* Carlos PenaVega as Niaman
* Domhnall Gleeson as Incubus
* Hayden Christensen as TBA
* Jordan Peele as The Brother
* Zoe Saldana as The Sister
* Ashley Johnson as TBA

## Parents Guide

### Violence & Gore

* The first boss battle involves severing a creature's tendrils and impaling it with a magic sword before restraining it and using a jagged chunk of stone with a long iron pole attached to it to impale the creature's eyeball and rip it out (there is squishy audio gore and black slime coming out as the creature collapses to the ground). While the stabbing is just offscreen, the eyeball is seen immediately after with a black, gooey crater through it where the fragment entered.
* We see a corpse with white bloody gashes on its face and later the corpse, now rotten, with open holes in the face that expose bone, teeth and white flesh.
* A man shoots a magic burst in another's mouth before magically sealing his jaw, exploding his head (we see the side of his skull melted and his pupils dilate as white blood oozes from his mouth and nose).
* A sawblade is shot at a woman and slices her in half, the saw hits a wall with white blood splattered on it and her halves separate in the background.
* A villain's arm is caught under a tightened cable in a crashing spaceship before an explosion throws him out of it with his arm getting amputated from his body as he screams, the dismemberment is onscreen with white blood spurting out and wound detail on both stumps.
* Spaceships hunt a huge alien monster with a baby by separating them with bombs and shock torture, tagging the mother with a tracker, pursuing it and shooting it with a spear and impaling ball and chains into it to as an immobilization tactic. The mother is finally murdered and see it bleeding into space and its baby swimming around it and mournfully whimpering before getting slaughtered offscreen.
* A flashback shows an alien monster being attacked and having a limb severed (we see the bleeding stump) before its mother is killed along with countless humanoid aliens, including two children bleeding a white color.
* One humanoid alien (an adolescent) is shot with a bloody wound through his chest and back and he dies with a large amount of white blood pooling out of him.
* Someone's pet dragon is shot and murdered with white blood pooling out into space.
* A huge drilling machine similar to an oil rig and a syringe are used to drill to a huge alien monster's cortexes and extract golden brain fluid, wound detail is visible.

## Reception

Metacritic gave the PC version 91/100 based on 16 reviews, the PlayStation 5 version 87/100 based on 16 reviews, and the Xbox Series version 96/100 based on 8 reviews.