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As requested by Ghabolous Ghoti, aka GG. * * * START You are Takua, born adventurer and investigator, previously mindwiped from bringing the Toa to this island. Of course, since you have been mindwiped, you know nothing about this. Seeing as 98% of all beings playing the game know nothing about this either, it’s a perfect match. You behold a beach with a giant, empty canister directly in front of you. To your left is a staircase going up to a staircase and a telescope. And, in front of you, near the canister, impossible to miss, is a Ga-Matoran waving frantically at you. Any other Matoran would have rushed immediately to the blue Matoran’s help. But you are Takua, and that telescope and energy pylons look immediately more fascinating. You stumble up the steps, and watch a confusing vision of giant rocks falling from the sky and smaller rocks emerging and reassembling around those rocks. It’s pretty obvious that the white rock represents some good guy who was struck down, and the black jagged rock is bad… * * * I would argue that this animation here represents the events of 2001-03, with the last part a representation of the events of Mask of Light. The little black rocks surrounding Makuta seem to be symbolic of the Rahkshi, although that could be interpreted as types of Rahi. (And then the Toa defeating Makuta as they do at the end of this game.) However, this animation sets up the expectation that the Toa Mata actually are supposed to defeat Makuta in the end. (They do in the game, but not in the rest of Bionicle, leaving this entirely self-contained.) This one also foreshadows Journey’s End, too – Mata Nui comes down, Makuta is bigger, and Mata Nui falls over and shrinks. Prototype is smaller than Makuta’s big bot. And the Toa come to defeat his minions and stuff. The in-game parallel is the best, though, really. The telescope pictures are meant to represent and foreshadow the events of the game, particularly each chapter from the opening menu. There’s the argument that these pictures represent the Bionicle story as a whole, but I think you would need to stretch it pretty badly to get that out of it. The ending does look like it, with a picture of a giant robot face, a shiny thing that looks like the golden armor, Makuta, and then Mata Nui. But there’s too much game specific stuff, like the Bohrok under the Mata Nui symbol (an early hint that the Bohrok actually served him), and the early pictures of Tahu and Gali Mata, which have no other story parallels. * * * From this point forward, the gameplay is rather ambiguous. Ga-Koro or Ta–Koro first? I’ve played it both ways. People told me back in 2010 that it was Ta first, but the BS01 walkthrough says Ga first, like how I did it all those years ago. In all of my years of playing MNOG, I have never seen the Tahu “looking away” animation anywhere than in the book of chronicles. It’s probably a glitch with the version of MNOG that I burned to a disk way back in 2006. I’m sure BMP has a better version, but for some reason I can’t bear to part with this one. Nostalgia. I nitpick these game mechanics…there’s really excuse for all of these turns around. Still 2001 though. Also yonder emergency pump, given the events of 2005 with the airships, is storyline realism, and it establishes female Ga-Matoran engineers. Yeah! The picture’s in Nixie’s hut count as semi-forshadowing of the events of 2008-09. The top picture shows that Mata Nui is on a planet, the bottom one a doll-like guy on a planet-circle. These fishermen guys look pretty cool. Nice catch, dudes. Wait... Yeah. For some reason, the Kakama looks like a guy mask to me. Someone is really determined to go fishing. I mean, a Tarakava monster is about to invade, and this gal is determined to catch a big one. Look at those eyes. News travels fast on Mata Nui. All of the Turaga’s huts have their respective Toa’s masks hung up in their huts. Nokama has Gali’s mask, for example; Onewa has Pohatu’s. The Matoran at the front of the tunnel to Onu-Koro from Po-Wahi is Midiak, as confirmed by Greg. Takua has visions? Only in MNOG… If you look closely in the Ko-Koro cablecar animation, you can see a black McToran outline. If you’re sharp-eyed, you’ll notice that the talents of the Matoran in the final battle match the “Principles” from MNOG II…except for Kapura. Makuta’s eyes look hallow, like nothing is behind them. Nothing… Tahu looks dismembered on his final attack – and Onua looks so…girly? The Kestora watch the proceedings from the Red Star.
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