The Overlord is the big, bad ruler of the Harbinger. His past is shrouded in mystery, but as I gathered from NPC conversations in the early and middle stages of the adventure - he was a human at some point of time in the past. That was until he apparently woke up one fine morning and decided that he hated his looks. Other than this, there is no satisfactory explanation for his sudden transformation from a wimpy captive to the tyrant ruler of the massive intergalactic prison ship.
Reaching the Overlord is no easy task. I had to go toe to toe with a dozen or so of Silverbacks (quadruped robots capable of inflicting huge damage in a short time) before I stumbled across the entry point to the Overlord's chamber. And those encounters were definitely some of the toughest I had, in the entire game.
A word of caution for newbies - the first couple of Silverbacks you face will go down pretty easily. I am not sure whether this was done intentionally. However, the ones you face after that will take considerably more punishment before getting dismantled. Oh, and don't bother using mines if you are playing as the human hero. Somehow, Silverbacks seemed to be immune to those.
The Overlord's entry was quite impressive (check out the vid below to see what I mean), and the first time I saw him, I was quite impressed by the way he looked. His armor looked magnificent, and he packed a weapon that looked like a machine gun, but spewed extremely damaging plasma bolts. Besides, there were two turrets on both sides of the chamber that kept zapping me (till I blasted those to bits, that is), as well as a couple of energy voids that were constantly draining the energy of my gun. The last problem was not difficult to deal with though; all I had to do was run around a bit to let my gun build up its energy reserves again. Plus, there are two energy recharging stations, which I was using quite frequently.
However, in spite of all these seemingly overbearing odds, the final boss battle was the easiest one I had fought in the entire game. For one thing, the Overlord is very slow on his feet, and I would like to put extra stress on the "very slow" part. He often tried to close the distance and use his melee-range shockwave on me, but I avoided those simply by running around him! And the plasma bolts he fired were also slow enough for me to dodge those almost every time. Of course, I guess I should be a bit thankful for this. In that cramped space, the power armor wearing galoot of a boss ensured that I could survive the battle without crunching down one health pack after another every few seconds!
Anyway, let's have a look at possibly the slowest and easiest boss battle in Harbinger, shall we?
Well, that's it! My journey through the Vantir-infested Harbinger is over. Will I be back here? Hmm... maybe in the near future, but not too soon! I really need a game with a slightly faster pace now!
