Chapter 11: Point Extraction
Alyx Vance enters the Vault with the intent of rescuing Gordon Freeman, only to find herself faced with indescribable phenomena and a mysterious, enigmatic entity in the final chapter of Half-Life: Alyx.
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Notes:
- There is no loot in this chapter, so I didn't bother opening most of the drawers/closets
- Throwing the lightning and grenades at Combine is actually harder than it looks, my controllers didn't really do a great job of tracking my hand movements, which is why I opted for the "Iron Man hand cannon" approach
Trivia:
- The chapter title is a reference to HL2's first chapter, "Point Insertion"
- Voicelines throughout the game from various characters (Russell, Eli, Brain-damaged vort) can be heard during this chapter, just like in HL1 just before Gordon takes the final portal to Nihilanth
- The ruins of the parking garage from where Alyx was beamed up can be seen at 0:15, which indicates that Alyx is actually upside down relative to the ground
- The citizens encountered in this chapter, such as at 1:39, seem to be frozen in different points of time, as they are dressed in the classic HL2 citizen garb
- The structure that houses the G-man at 2:23 greatly resembles a virus
- This might be a reach but I always thought the kitchen sequence at 5:14 is a homage to the film Poltergeist (1982)
- The ability of the Gravity Gloves to become supercharged and capable of throwing Vortigaunt lightning is a neat callback to HL2's final chapters where the Gravity Gun also became supercharged (10:06)
- The HEV Suit Charger sound from previous games can be heard at 13:30
- It becomes very clear at 13:47 that the individual in the prison is not Gordon Freeman
- The machinery at 13:53 channels Vortigaunt energy into the prison to contain the G-man. In HL2:EP1, it was shown that Vortigaunts were the only ones capable of interfering with G-man
- A dead Combine Advisor can be seen outside the prison at 14:03. It is unknown how it was killed
- The G-man is once again voiced by Micheal Shapiro, who has done every single G-man sequence since HL1
- G-man answers Alyx's inquiry as to who he is with "Perhaps what I am" as opposed to "who I am" (15:30)
- The location at 15:44 is unknown, it does not really resemble Xen
- The G-man seems to "split" into several different duplicates of himself at 15:51, referencing his ability to travel across time
- The ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 is shown at 16:53. Half-Life: Alyx essentially retcons this ending through G-man's manipulation
- Small sections of HL2: EP2s ending song, "Dark Interval", plays at 16:53
- The first time an Advisor is directly killed by the player at 17:46
- At 17:58, Eli looks confused after being rescued not only because he literally came back from the dead, but also because Alyx has disappeared at that point in time
- At 18:24, G-man states that Gordon has been "unable, or unwilling" to perform to G-man's expectations. This is a reference to the start of HL2:EP1, where the Vortigaunts freed Gordon from the G-man's control. However, it might also indicate that the "bad" ending of HL1 was canon, as Gordon actively refuses G-man's offer in that ending
- The animation of Gordon picking up his glasses at 18:35 is actually truncated. A full animation exists in the game files of him waking up after getting knocked down by the Advisor and getting up before donning his glasses
- If one is to view Gordon's model in the game files, it can be seen that his HEV suit has sustained major damage throughout his journey
- The signature HEV suit voice is heard at 21:30
- The title of the game fades away so that the "y" fades last, revealing that it is an inverted lambda symbol
- The hangar bay from the end of HL2:EP2 is seen at 21:47, fully realized in Source 2
- At 21:49, Eli exclaims "Son of a bitch and his 'unforeseen consequences'", which is both a reference to HL1's third chapter title and a reference to the words that G-man told Alyx to pass on to him in HL2:EP2
- The return of Dog at 21:55
- The sound of a Combine Energy Ball can be heard as Dog holds Gordon's crowbar (22:03)
- The first and only G-man appearance outside of the ending at 22:13. Interestingly, also the first time he appears in this fashion without a suitcase in hand, and shown to visibly fade away after walking away
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