With the letter in hand, Arthur fights and flees his way through the tunnels, which are being mined out to harvest Motilene. Arthur, initially excited by this, gets upset when Sally tells him that they have to wait. Biggest change of all, perhaps, is when Arthur leaves her behind instead of the other way 'round. Arthur wakes up in the maintenance tunnels beneath Wellington Wells and attempts to recollect what had just happened. Though he didn't apply it to Jack's daughter, who he ratted out to the Germans. At one point, Percy and Arthur burned documents that the occupying German forces needed for the 'Authority' Project, but their efforts were in vain. Their second conversation is almost identical to the one from Arthur's perspective, with some differences, including Arthur being harsher and less forgiving. Roger can then choose to bring James with him or not. In the face of a new mysterious threat young Artyom must leave his home station for the first time, making a dangerous journey to the legendary Polis to enlist their help. [42][43][44], Reviewers highlighted that the game, despite being in early access for years, was buggy and issue-laden: Jim Sterling called the game "a joyless broken disaster" and suggested that it should be recalled. Many of these scenarios are left for the player to determine what really went down. Another difference is how Ollie can see, hear, and talk to Margaret. He also wears black, rimmed glasses. On the other hand, Sally's POV shows more of the worse parts of his personality. His answer? He also learns that Wellington Wells is slowly falling apart; the city's infrastructure is failing, an unspecified outbreak has occurred, and Joy is becoming less effective, with scientist Anton Verloc researching a new version of Joy to permanently lobotomize the populace and keep them in a never-ending state of euphoria. He then makes his way through the seemingly abandoned, yet operational, maintenance facilities. The wife of Norbert Pickles, also known as Nick Lightbearer. Nick realizes he wrote down a record of events in the form of lyrics, and plays them to his music to try and jog his memory. Three sisters living in the Garden District who are supposedly witches. First Protagonist Victoria Byng's mother, and wife of General Robert Byng. Check out this collection of photos we love from some of our favorite video games. Faraday's assistants. However, its many negative side-effects include addiction, short-term memory loss, loss of appetite, nightmarish hallucinations, and being susceptible to manipulation. It's briefly mentioned that her surname is Worthing, while Ollie's surname is Starkey. Since there is no map available to guide him, he plays his guitar in front of the gilded full-body statues molded in his likeness and they indicate his current destination. In Arthur's perspective, he will meet Sally in the Village and give her the cod liver oil in her home; in Sally's perspective, she will meet Arthur in the Village as well but she will meet him again in the Garden when he's on a swing. He eventually got a job as a reporter and became quite skilled at it, eventually rising to prominence popularity. Arthur sounds younger than Percy in flashbacks isn't just a fluke, it's because he. If Arthur refuses to take the pill, however, he throws both it and the pill bottle into a nearby trash can and looks at the article alarmed, crying out Percy's name. Its heavily implied that citizens of Wllington Wells would hurt children. (voice), Stewart Adams / They Came From Below - the first DLC story which follows lovers Roger Bacon and James Maxwell, two houseboys who are in search of their superior Dr. Faraday (who created Wellington Well's technology) in an underground facility populated with evil robots. Microsoft announced We Happy Few as part of their press conferences at Gamescom in August 2015,[25] Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016. Arthur saved Eddie from the Plough Boys and carried him to the pub after the gang attacked him and broke his legs. When Ollie forces her to detox, she ends up taking off her mask, and she's rather attractive. On top of this, Arthur discovers that Verloc plans to lobotomize the entire population of Wellington Wells with a plan he calls "The Permanent Solution", which will lock them in a permanent state of happiness while also reducing their intelligence to that of a gerbil. A full list of his quotes can be read here. [9], We Happy Few has been said by some to be a cross between video games series BioShock, Fallout and Don't Starve,[18] and novels Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Arthur feels stupid for having told them the truth. However, the repercussions of the Very Bad Thing left the citizens with immense anguish and guilt over their actions, leading to the invention of a new hallucinogenic drug called "Joy", which suppresses all unhappy memories and leaves its user in a chemically-induced euphoria, while also brightening how they perceive their environment. James and Roger return in an all-new We Happy Few story. This prompts the constable to ask if Arthur's memory is playing tricks on him, seemingly knowing more than meets the eye. They give the player £7 if eliminated. The player is once again given the choice between taking and not taking the pill, mirroring the choice given at the start of the game. Browse "W" Games - Behind The Voice Actors When Sally slashes him across the face with a shard of glass she slices through his left eye. Wealth can be used or gained through various vendors in exchange for items. However, that undoubtedly disappeared the moment of Arthur's betrayal. She talks about having dreamt of swimming with her out of Wellington Wells and how well she knows Victoria. (voice), Mrs. Boyle / Arthur, with a smile on his face, then states to the boy, "You're right. Roger tries to go to the portal chamber, but James stops him. but it later turns out that Uncle Jack's surname is Worthing and Uncle Jack is Margaret's true father. By the 1960s, Wellington Wells' isolation led to resounding advances in technology, including Tesla-styled weapons, portable power cells, and automated security systems. After escaping Ollie's custody, Victoria must deal with Joy withdrawal as well as the collapse of law and order in Wellington Wells. Sally refuses, fights Byng, takes the key to the boat, and locks him inside the safehouse. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 10, 2018. Alive Uncle Jack is a main antagonist in We Happy Few.He acts a sort of leader figure for the town, continuously broadcasting on every television and radio. (voice), Game Show Bridge Announcer / The player spawns on one of the islands that are generated small, medium or large and either in a line or tree layout. Arthur Ernest Hastings is one of three playable characters in We Happy Few. Has one for real in "We All Fall Down", as Wellington Wells' descent into absolute anarchy due to how everyone is too high on Joy to maintain the city causes her to abandon the government's cause and Joy itself. As he progresses, he begins to learn new and remember old crafting skills from way back when and begins collecting various items that'll allow him to progress. [13], Compulsion also put more effort into creating narrative encounters with unique characters, and level spaces for these to occur within the procedurally generated world. We Happy Few is an action game played from the first-person perspective that includes elements of stealth and survival games. Additional NPC Characters The first trailers Compulsion released as well as the early access version, featuring a short narrative sequence introducing the playable character Arthur, created the impression that the game would be a first-person action-adventure game with a linear narrative. Additional NPC Characters During the events of "We All Fall Down", Victoria begins to hallucinate her mother's presence at times. Should Arthur accept, he presumably completely forgets the events of the whole game and goes back to Wellington Wells, and can be seen playing on playground equipment in a dilapidated and overgrown area, presumably one of the last people still on Joy. After this short encounter, Arthur remembers that the constable he just met very closely resembles the constable that Arthur lied to about his age and identity in 1944. As Arthur goes through the articles, he comes across a newspaper article about him and his brother winning a scrap gathering prize and begins to remember Percy, upsetting him. [37] Compulsion Games said they were prepared to offer refunds even to Kickstarter backers from Australia should they be unable to achieve a rating. [12] This in turn led to the use of light roguelike elements such as permadeath and procedurally generated worlds. On each Island there are two notable locations (A black circle with an eye on it) which each contain either: a Bridge Key-Card or a Boat Capacitors and they have to use the key cards to unlock the bridges to the other islands. When the German Occupation demanded the children to be put on a train bound for Germany, her mother killed her younger siblings with poisonous soup as well as killing her father so that he wouldn't freak out. Once off his mind-control medication, Arthur begins … She is armed with a whip that she can use to both attack enemies and access higher levels to avoid danger. Saddened that the people she has saved have come to hate her, Victoria wonders what to do next, and the vision of her mother suggests she return to India and find her real mother, who may still be alive. In his final episode, he uses the former to beg his viewers to stop taking their Joy, and he uses the latter while breaking down. Arthur is a tall, slim (almost skinny) man, with parted black hair, dark brown eyes, and a rather large nose. Black The game takes place in an alternate historical timeline, in which an unemployed bricklayer assassinates Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933; allowing senator Huey Long to become president. (voice), Margaret Teasdale / When the Germans arrived, Percy and Arthur worked together to try to undermine them. We Happy Few is an action-adventure video game developed by Compulsion Games and published by Gearbox Publishing. He quickly rouses James, who has been knocked unconscious, spurring the couple to attempt to find Dr. Faraday. Others who voluntarily refuse their Joy are known as "Downers" and seen as a threat; if caught, Downers are either force-fed Joy, are taken to a Joy Doctor to get a potentially lethal liquid injection of Joy, or are outright killed on the spot. He is also quite resourceful, able to construct various tools, weapons, and other useful and helpful contraptions from different crafting components. Either way, none of the surviving Wellies want anything to do with her. To encourage the drug's consumption, the media is tightly controlled and centers on "Uncle" Jack Worthing, a friendly MC whose voice and image widely broadcasts government propaganda over the city's televisions and radios. However, there is little need for it, as the enemy AI is so feeble that most enemies you can basically just walk by and they won't notice you. Numerous diary entries from her that you can find in Arthur's story point towards her being in love with Victoria. You have to blend in with it's inhabitants who won't be too happy if they find out you're a downer that's not taking their joy pills! From that point, they worked backwards to create the history of the town, tying it to events from World War II, and recognizing that characters would have their own sins of the past as well as those of the entire town. The people who are officially in charge of Wellington Wells. We Happy Few is Compulsion Games' second game following its 2013 game Contrast.