My favorite one has always been Beyond. I like the atmosphere of "something is messed up here" they accomplished, not only in the haunted house, but throughout the whole story. You feel that something is not ok since the very beginning, when the main character is looking for her cat and becomes increasingly impatient, then of course the gravity and the missplaced tokens within the house and the monster-truck that seals everything. I think it is amazing from beginning to end, and kind of an example of "how would it be when something malfunctions in the Matrix".
Final Flight of the Osiris is really nice, too, mainly the art of course, but also the story (which connects directly to TMReloaded). I absolutely loved the ending.
The Second Renaissance (I & II): I just consider them as one, and it is the one that completes the "podium" for me. Great art, great story, hypnotizing voice of the narrator and an extremely well chosen tone when telling the story, not taking part for any side (actually you understand the machines and may even feel inclined to side with them -morally).
On the other hand, I think Program and A Detective Story are the weakest ones. Don't take me wrong, I still like them (again I love the tone of the latter, as in the classic noir films), but they don't explain anything we didn't know before, or interesting from a Matrix vs Real World point of view.
Which is why I like so much World Record. I think it is one of the most important stories and the topic it deals with is actually the same one that Kid's Story. But while this one is very simple and pointless (IMHO), World Record actually gives an explanation about self-liberation. We all "know" that it is impossible to run 100m in less than, say, 9 seconds. So, what would it feel like to actually make it? Wouldn't you feel, know, that there is something else, that some Physics laws can be broken? Because that's the whole point of the story. A very clever one.
What's left? Matriculated, the longest one (the other eight last around 9 minutes, and this takes double that time). I kind of hated this one at the beginning, but I have learnt to love it after several times through it. I still FFWD the "virtual world" part, ok, but it makes another good point to the Matrix world. How a machine can have feelings, how a group of humans live in the surface experimenting with machines... And the ending, those different angles of a set void of all life, and a lone machine alive outside... Disturbing in some way, I really like it.
Well, that was it. Cheers to those who read it all. :P
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nnq2603
8 years ago
Yeah, Beyond gives a very classical sense of the matrix. And in reddit, they even made a dedicated sub-reddit to dicuss about "Glitch in the Matrix" with all sorts of stories and similar personal experiences.
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