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Pretty enjoyable game overall. Of course it could be because I didn't go back and rewatch every tidbits of the studio recording to get complete perspective on everything, but I find some of the emotional/moral choices don't land well. I find Disrupt pretty unsympathetic. I kept trying to give them air time to learn their message but they never moved beyond the extremely generic "government control bad" angle. I completely gave up on them when they have me play what's supposedly their big manifesto to have the people rise up tape. Instead what I got was a confession from the working class person saying she's sorry she voted Advance because she was jealous of rich people's wealth??? JESUS CHRIST. At this point I had to completely reinterpret the tone of the game to be an absurdist take on socialism and I dunno, liberalism or rich people control the world in a cabalism, depending on how charitable you want to be. Also Disrupt's leader/spokesperson turned out to be an Alex Jones type. How the hell is anyone suppose to take Disrupt seriously after that? Even Jeremy's shaken at the reveal when he realized he just threw away his life for not-Alex Jones. The game had section where you are suppose to control the narrative by playing different take from the various happenings. Except the player is not given information on what's actually happening. I don't know if the policy I am showing in good or bad light is actually working well or not (even though the player character should have an idea). I was also poor as dirt (so poor I had to euthanize my mum), but the game showed that I had my own car, two-story house, nice fenced yard with automatic sprinkler (I guess that's under my wife's name? but somehow we refuse to downsize because?? Also euthanasia is involuntary even if it's not explicitly stated??). Overall I find the scenario of the family survival mini-game/vignette to be pretty ridiculous and didn't work as well as something like in Paper, Please. pedro0930 fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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I got the Brighter Future ending where Jeremy and Alan both died, play the Boseman tape. I feel Advance is portrayed as hyper-competent if anything and the developer had to throw some random absurd evil at them to balance it out. For example, I kept waiting for the food distribution center to become Soviet style shortage, but nope, it just seems to work pretty well. Even Jeremy had to give Advance credit for solving homelessness. Advance had popular support the entire time (probably depends on player action), and especially the younger generation all support Advance whether it's because they are all brainwashed or actually hugely benefited from their policy and social program. They turned around the 20 weeks war and brought the international coalition to its knees. (Yes, they nuked tens of millions, but the entire premise is already ridiculous when Advance got sanctioned by the international community for trying to tax rich people. I feel this has to be interpret as Advance somehow lied to the whole country about the reason for sanction). Then Advance had to go forced euthanasia because of...reason?? I feel there's better angle to play up here, for example, Advance becomes an imperial power what with reducing the whole coalition to numbered territories. Like I said, I kept giving Disrupt air time, but they weren't able to show anything concrete, anything beyond conspiracy like some secret government lab got shut down....and...that's all they got. They don't know what research they were doing, it just must be badddd. (And I only read this, but turned out Disrupt is just a puppet of literal international cabal of capitalist if you went their route). They had nothing until the ex machina tape with the accidental sterilization coverup. pedro0930 fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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