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It wasn’t a matter of being surprised it was a matter of time before this person managed to show up. Sadly, these characters are scripted to show up at certain times in the story removing a lot of the mystique should you replay the early levels. What will you do when a man and wife are about to separated due to some archaic paperwork requirement? If a woman slides you a note stating that she’s been sold into the sex trafficking industry, and her kidnapper is right behind her, will you risk the life of your family to save hers? Some will try to bribe you with gifts, one man will continuously try to cross the border with papers that seem to have been made in line waiting, while others will present you with moral quandaries on the spot. It’s a grim reality that’s hard to fully express strictly through words.Īlthough your “guests” are extremely low resolution and offer very little, if any, audible cues to their personality, the story they convey is magnificent. Drug runners and terrorists will both try to cross the border, and failure to catch the latter could result in the death of the guards behind you.

#Papers please passport michael how to#

Just when you’ve finally learned how to read the passports perfectly, you’ll have to have another obligation thrust upon you.

It’s a horrible feeling heading home after a shift knowing your son is cold and your wife is hungry, and only one of them may make it through the night. Failing to provide for your family could result in them getting sick, and if you’d like to keep them alive you’ll have to pay even more for medicine. Rarely will you be financially stable enough to pay for everything without worrying, let alone saving anything for down the road. You’ll have to pay for your rent, but you’ll also have to pay for food and clothing for your family. A good payday could be as high as 30 dollars, so losing an 8 th of that is incredibly devastating.Īt the end of the day, you’ll be allowed to go home and visit your family, and that’s when Papers, Please turns the despair levels up to 11. Every error leads to an instant fax from your superiors reprimanding you for your error, and eventually leading to a five dollar fine per mistake. It’s looking for incredibly small details to make sure these people are safe to enter your homeland. The passport may have the logo backwards, a sure sign of a forgery, or they may be slightly taller than their paperwork says they should be. The discrepancies you’ll have to weed out aren’t always obvious.

They’ll hand over their passport and other paperwork, and you’ll start the strenuous process of weeding them out. Some of them will make small talk, others will berate you for your position, but all eventually have to submit to your authority. Once you’ve familiarized yourself with the new regulations, you can call in your first candidate from the seemingly endless line of immigrants either passing through or looking for a new home. Maybe if you’re lucky, your superior will visit you to tell you of a distinguished visitor en route or hand you an award for your adequacy. After that long miserable walk to work in the freezing cold, you’ll find a new memo on your desk from the powers-that-be, detailing any new immigration rules. You’re typical work day is, frankly, quite horrible. As the lucky “winner” of the labor lottery, you’ve been assigned to man the border checkpoint and scour through countless passports and entry waivers as the never-ending line of people wait eagerly to cross over. You’ll play as an ordinary citizen from Arstozka, a fictional country that would have fit in perfect during the USSR’s last dying breaths, as 1982 draws to a close. Papers Please doesn’t cast you as a hero of any sort. Why in the blue hell do I love this game so much?

Papers, Please doesn’t make me feel good about myself and though it let me walk away feeling accomplished, it doesn’t even necessarily feel like fun half the time. On the other hand, if I happen to hit the button to have her arrested and thrown in some ungodly gulag that I’ll never see, there may be another five spot waiting for me at the end of the day. If the lady in front of me gets through our borders with a passport that spells her name wrong, I’m the one who has to pay the fine, and my family at home is already cold and starving. The only real gameplay is reading through paperwork looking for minute discrepancies as the laws of my home country get more and more convoluted. The low fi audio barely edges out the true 8 bit visuals, which feel as if they’re 30 years late.