If Brian from Family Guy could make a video game, this is what he'd make.
The acting, presentation and concept for a game like this is kinda interesting, and that's the only thing that saves this from a half a star. The plot (a left wing not UK government wins after the first not Thacher administration but turns out to be ebil gommunism) is executed so fucking poorly that it's fucking insulting. Even from an alt-history standpoint, this comes off less charitable than those weird 90's polish games with robot feminazis.
There's no actual allegory of real world left movements, or mimicking actual examples that could have applied to this game. it's been about a year since I played the game, and I started off this review going bit by bit on how the real life examples of each faction wouldn't act like the way they do in game, but after awhile I was just breaking down each turn of the script and saying "this is fucking stupid". This is a game where the ebil gommunism goberment is literally 1984 and would preemptively nuke major population centers because of their imperial ambitions and harsh sanctions from other countries, just like all the times that happened in real life. The plucky resistance group just organically forms due to frustrations with such evils as "land reform" and "they don't let fake Newscorp continue along shitting up the airwaves".
Their idea of a far left government's final public plans are implementing UBI and "free education". They nationalized major industries (which, by the way, look for the words "capital flight" anywhere in this stupid script, you won't find it despite it being a very real consequence of nationalization because this game was written by inbred Brits) but they let the education sector still be ran for profit. I can't add anything onto that, that's fucking stupid and if you think that's a genuine assessment of the left outside of assuming mild social democracy would lead to IRL Paper's Please, you should be put under conservatorship.
I didn't mention much about the characters, or personal drama of the game, and that's because I don't care, they fucking suck. I want to punch Alan James in the teeth every time he comes on screen. Jeremy and Megan's performances are a highlight of the game, because much like every existing UK news broadcaster, listening to them for an extended period of time curdles the food in my stomach. So much of the game is filled with these little character interactions between the cast, and while it's a respite from the trainwreck that's the main plot, static would start playing in my head whenever they're blurt out the sub Harvester-tier dialogue.
I hope notGames lost their shirt on this production. It's not the worst FMV game I've played, but it's the most British one. Sink that goddamn island into the sea, nothing good ever came of it.
The acting, presentation and concept for a game like this is kinda interesting, and that's the only thing that saves this from a half a star. The plot (a left wing not UK government wins after the first not Thacher administration but turns out to be ebil gommunism) is executed so fucking poorly that it's fucking insulting. Even from an alt-history standpoint, this comes off less charitable than those weird 90's polish games with robot feminazis.
There's no actual allegory of real world left movements, or mimicking actual examples that could have applied to this game. it's been about a year since I played the game, and I started off this review going bit by bit on how the real life examples of each faction wouldn't act like the way they do in game, but after awhile I was just breaking down each turn of the script and saying "this is fucking stupid". This is a game where the ebil gommunism goberment is literally 1984 and would preemptively nuke major population centers because of their imperial ambitions and harsh sanctions from other countries, just like all the times that happened in real life. The plucky resistance group just organically forms due to frustrations with such evils as "land reform" and "they don't let fake Newscorp continue along shitting up the airwaves".
Their idea of a far left government's final public plans are implementing UBI and "free education". They nationalized major industries (which, by the way, look for the words "capital flight" anywhere in this stupid script, you won't find it despite it being a very real consequence of nationalization because this game was written by inbred Brits) but they let the education sector still be ran for profit. I can't add anything onto that, that's fucking stupid and if you think that's a genuine assessment of the left outside of assuming mild social democracy would lead to IRL Paper's Please, you should be put under conservatorship.
I didn't mention much about the characters, or personal drama of the game, and that's because I don't care, they fucking suck. I want to punch Alan James in the teeth every time he comes on screen. Jeremy and Megan's performances are a highlight of the game, because much like every existing UK news broadcaster, listening to them for an extended period of time curdles the food in my stomach. So much of the game is filled with these little character interactions between the cast, and while it's a respite from the trainwreck that's the main plot, static would start playing in my head whenever they're blurt out the sub Harvester-tier dialogue.
I hope notGames lost their shirt on this production. It's not the worst FMV game I've played, but it's the most British one. Sink that goddamn island into the sea, nothing good ever came of it.