People really like this one and I do think its got some interesting themes about the dangers of family legacy vs. personal identity. How that legacy can tarnish personal relationships.
But it doesn't go far enough in on that idea and there's too many obtuse puzzles to derive much enjoyment out of it.
But it doesn't go far enough in on that idea and there's too many obtuse puzzles to derive much enjoyment out of it.
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LEGIT THO. and like, we've talked about the distinctions between the Historical and the Modern plots but it feels really cowardly to try and separate those plots when there's so much to interrogate about the Blackmoor legacy and where that money comes from.
It’s very interesting which elements of colonial history Her seems willing to interrogate and which ones they aren’t. Like I was very impressed by how far they took the museum stuff in scarlet hand but I REALLY do not believe that they would ever go for a similar attempt at a critique of like, historical colonialism?
Like I can’t put a direct finger on the ideology around because it’s so indistinct in the games that address this culture so far but it FEELS to me like there’s a very uncritical reverence for that kind of old money European rich people culture that’s very detached from any sense of actual history.
Like when it’s a castle in England it’s suddenly very easy to look at the elaborate family tree that you can go into elaborate detail about and the family treasure and all this shit and see it all in a bubble when previously they’ve gone somewhat out of their way to like…try harder?
But that’s the thing this game is SO bare too in general that I like…I don’t know if this is an intentional political omission from the team that dedicated a game to writing historical fanfic about how Marie Antoinette was nice actually or just a side effect of the fact that there’s no writing in this game in general lol. There’s just nothing on this bone to work with in either direction.
Like I can’t put a direct finger on the ideology around because it’s so indistinct in the games that address this culture so far but it FEELS to me like there’s a very uncritical reverence for that kind of old money European rich people culture that’s very detached from any sense of actual history.
Like when it’s a castle in England it’s suddenly very easy to look at the elaborate family tree that you can go into elaborate detail about and the family treasure and all this shit and see it all in a bubble when previously they’ve gone somewhat out of their way to like…try harder?
But that’s the thing this game is SO bare too in general that I like…I don’t know if this is an intentional political omission from the team that dedicated a game to writing historical fanfic about how Marie Antoinette was nice actually or just a side effect of the fact that there’s no writing in this game in general lol. There’s just nothing on this bone to work with in either direction.
I do feel like they improve when its not the 00s, but there is like a... I don't wanna say corporate feminism/neoliberal vibe but like. Its certainly there.
Even beyond that, you really are just given documents on people and told "now this is how you're supposed to view them suspect wise, look at how sinister it is that the biographer might be writing a Mean biography."
Even beyond that, you really are just given documents on people and told "now this is how you're supposed to view them suspect wise, look at how sinister it is that the biographer might be writing a Mean biography."
Part of it I feel is that it’s not even as sinister as a lot of neolib/corpo vibes are today as much as that kind of thing was just homogeneously the dominant point of view in popular feminism in the 90s and early 2000s. So it does make sense to me that this vibe would calm down over time, and that’s part of what bums me out about this series stopping so abruptly halfway through last decade. I would be very interested to see what these looked like today if they were still happening regularly.
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2 years ago