Just in case anyone’s not sure how to find cool games on Steam:
- Visit Woke Content Detector
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- Enjoy :)
For added entertainment, they sometimes Don’t Get It and what they say is “subtle” is, in fact, right in your face.
e.g. they say Monster Hunter Wilds is “subtly pro-climate action” which is like saying a tungsten cube is “slightly hefty” or Life Is Strange is “a little bit gay”
(Tagged for NSFW for sexual content in review descriptions.)
To be fair, part of what I love about the game is they rag on everyone, communists, fascists, liberals. If Chapo Trap House didn’t do the original voices I may not have known as well.
It’s pretty clearly pro communist, just messy as hell
It’s just not uncritically so.
And nobody who isn’t one would have been able to write half those characters.
The Deserter and the infra-communist study group, plus Everett Clair?
One thing I love about the game is that while you’re given many opportunities to give pro-communist opinions, Harry himself is a little too much of a fuckup to translate it to meaningful political sentiment. no matter what he espouses, he’s a miserable man reaching for ideology for his own ego’s sake, and that’s worthy of critique regardless of the specific ideology.
editing to add: this contrasts well with Kim, a centrist/Moralist, the ideology the writing seems to have the most disdain for. Kim himself, however, is very consistently sympathetic. In context, his decisions are not driven by ideology outside of the basic belief that the RCM is legitimate and beneficial. Outside of that he’s open to critique but only really cares to respond to it as it pertains to the case, because that is the primary context where his opinion actually matters. It creates a very likable and righteous character in a political position the game is arguably most critical of.
Yes! It’s so good!
And it definitely hates communists in ways only a communist could.
The communist study group was amazing. I didn’t meet them in my first play through, because I was too much of a noncommittal ~~centrist liberal ~~ moralist, but I made sure to go extra hard commie on my second run.
I laughed so much, because they reminded me so much of people I literally know. No-one I know directly lines up with the characters; it’s more like if we took the commie essence out of all my friends, distilled it down and then crafted two characters out of it. It feels almost cliché, but it’s not an inauthentic depiction
‘What are you doing?’
‘Infra-communism.’
Doubly amazing because by the physics of the setting it could actually be a thing
I haven’t played in years, and I already knew going in, so I couldn’t really judge if I could have figured it out or not.
It read like a better version of some shit I would’ve written.
Edgy literary probably queer communists.
Like the very nature of what the cops even are (supposed to be) in that part of that setting is Utopian.
ACAB (except Kim Kitsuragi)
wait what’s the story with the original voices?
Before the Final Cut release, the people from Chapo Trap House voiced some of the characters. Back then it had much less voice acting though.