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And then there's Battle Beyond the Stars, which translates the premise into outer space (it even has Robert Vaughn, playing essentially the same role he did in Magnificent Seven). Not anywhere near the quality of the other two, but a fun bit of cheese.

Whatever the limit is, there are obviously ways around it. The Master "officially" ran out of regenerations back in the Tom Baker era, but he keeps on doing it anyway.

If I don't get that hoop skirt and beehive hairdo for my huge tanker, I'm ragequitting.

"We've replaced Mot's usual mystical voodoo potion with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if he can tell the difference..."

Along the same lines, if your hero was one of the Shining Stars, Manticore could have some custom dialogue about how he's "getting the band back together".

Or for a really tricky bit of coding: I ran the villain version of the arc first, then the hero one. All through the latter, I was thinking "Hey, my villain Crimson Snow should be around here somewhere!" How cool would it be if the game could actually detect that and have your villain alt show up as an enemy (and vice-versa)?

Any readers who would leave because of that are people you don't want around anyway. Stick to your guns!

Hey, at least he has a travel power...

This. I suspect a lot of the "cat-herding" problems in the trials would go away if people weren't under such constant time pressure.

"Nice to see you again." BAM!

The "highlight the last objective" is helpful (when it works), but would not have solved my problem. On the Oranbega map I was on, all but one of the hostages were squirreled away in tiny, easy-to-miss cubbyholes. I cleared all the enemies I could find (tedious work for a Stalker), then proceeded to go back and forth through the map for a good twenty minutes before I finally unearthed the last four. The existing system would only have pointed out one of those.

Well I hope you did your part in killing the Silence on sight.

We don't know much about Timelord babies...maybe she can remember that far back. Or, the (future) Doctor may have warned her about it: "One of these days, I'm going to send your Dad to pick you up and take you to Demon's Run. Don't go right away, it'll screw everything up".

True, but I doubt we'll actually see much of it onscreen. From now on, whenever there's a gap where the Doctor is traveling without a companion, we can assume that he sneaks off to Stormgate Prison, picks up River, and runs around with her for a while before dropping her back off.

In which they make veiled comments about the sexual shortcomings of various heroes: "Aquaman's always courageous / His little fish is less outrageous". Ouch.

Yeah, the goals there aren't really clear. As far as I can tell, the timer is just telling you how long the ambushes will keep coming. Once it runs out, they stop spawning, and any that are still there will keel over. I guess clicking all the glowies would end the ambushes early... but good luck clicking anything while piles of Igneous keep dropping on your head.

Aside from that, and the similarly annoying timer in the first mission (honestly, Devs...making people race to the exit on an Oranbega map is just cruel), it's a pretty fun little arc.