🧾 Dept. of Petty Affairs — Design Forensics Docket #317: The Lunar Heir Theory
Subject: PRAGMATA (Capcom, TBA)
Filed by: Jerry “The Ankle Biter” Silverhand · Tribunal Chair, DPA
Classification: Composite Ghost Analysis — Motion / Emotion / Execution
⚙️ Observation
Pragmata didn’t emerge from a vacuum — it’s a collage of ghosts from three forgotten blueprints:
Vanquish + Knights Contract + Bulletstorm (whip-only edition)
Each contributes a distinct pulse. Together, they form Capcom’s unspoken experiment: A Platinum-style soul graft without Platinum’s heresy.
🌀 Vanquish — The Motion Gospel
From Vanquish, it inherits the language of movement. The exosuit choreography, the sliding propulsion, the controlled chaos that makes combat look like performance art. Vanquish moved like jazz with bullets; Pragmata wants to hum that same tune in vacuum silence. You can almost hear the RE Engine whirring, praying it can keep up.
🔮 Knights Contract — The Bond Burden
Heinrich + Gretchen reborn as Astronaut + Child. The eternal protector and the fragile catalyst. Immortality recast as duty; salvation re-skinned in zero gravity. The emotional payload remains identical: protect the spark that makes you human, even as the world collapses.
⚙️ Bulletstorm (Whip-Only Edition) — The Tactile Edge
Strip the frat-comedy veneer, keep the kinetic soul. That leash-mechanic energy — the perfect midpoint between control and chaos. In Pragmata’s hands, it’s no longer a toy; it’s a prayer line. Every tether pull looks like dragging fate closer by sheer will.
🌙 Synthesis — The Composite Ghost
Pragmata’s architecture reads like a dev-room séance. They summoned Vanquish for speed, Knights Contract for sentiment, and Bulletstorm for physics — but left Platinum’s madness outside the circle. The result? Beautifully engineered melancholy. A machine that wants to feel something.
🐾 Verdict
“Pragmata isn’t copying. It’s remembering in 4K.”
The DPA hereby classifies it as The Lunar Heir — a mechanical elegy for games that dreamed too hard.
— Filed and signed, Jerry ‘The Ankle Biter’ Silverhand Tribunal Chair · Dept. of Petty Affairs
(Witness Statement: “If it slides like Vanquish and cries like a witch, I’m in.”)
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