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
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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
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Miniscope items
| Item | Location | Image |
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| Ninth Doctor's leather jacket | Chapter 1 On a coat rack in the Reception building at 76 Totter's Lane. |
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| Fish fingers and custard | Chapter 1 In a shipping container at 76 Totter's Lane. |
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| O | Chapter 1 On the TARDIS console. |
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| Twelfth Doctor's guitar | Chapter 2 At a campsite in the wooded area aboard the SS Lucia Minor. |
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| Cup of Athelstan | Chapter 3 On the edge of a fountain in Time Park. |
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| Auton hand | Chapter 3 On the second floor of the stairwell in the home of Sir Manfred Grayle. |
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| Osiran Lodestone | Chapter 3 On the second floor of the stairwell in the home of Sir Manfred Grayle. |
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Crew
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References
- 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.
Story notes
- 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.
- In a broken reality, the Tenth Doctor married Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson.
- The Doctor once again makes the companion make a difficult choice since she doesn't want to do it.
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