Welcome to the eighteenth part of Mouse's Black Mesa commentary, where today, we'll be continuing going over "Surface Tension!" In this part, I'd like to point out how much of Xen is crossing over into the Earth world, how it's not just the aliens teleporting in, but now we're getting strange alien flora growing in, too, like...
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A fleshy looking alien trampoline growing in a ruined parking garage!
Seriously, these things look so creepy, I think. The middle part looks like some sort of... slightly moving, pulsating... fleshy brain... stuff... and it's got roots spanning out from it, and these tiny hairs growing on it... eugh. It looks gross.
I love it.
Of course, Gordon's first response is, Let's step on it, and
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You get shot up straight into the air!
Another of the things I appreciate that they changed in Black Mesa- when you step on one of these, it launches you straight up to a designated spot. But in Half-Life? No, you continued in the direction you were going, just upwards now, too. And the things were so hard to control. They took me forever to get across.
But if you look up in the parking garage, you'll see...
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Shoot, guess the guy was just having too much fun on the alien trampoline to realize how high he was getting, and got impaled on some rebar... what a way to go.
