Posted on: January 4, 2023
java85u
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Bad.
First of all, it's true what they say: this choose-your-own-adventure-book is masquerading as a game. That being said - I actually *like* a good choose-your-own-adventure-book. Planescape Torment and to some extent Arcanum and the original Fallouts come to mind. So why is this one very very very bad? :-) Someone without a post-sovjet + historical + literary background would have no way knowing what this game actually is. This is, unashamedly, a cannibalistic and chauvinistic pamphlet, masquerading as a late-sovjet sci-fi book mixed with Colombian magic realism of the 60s. The message? Mother Graad'sha is the greatest, brutally awesome (think Pladymyr Vutin - on a horse) [ahaha game - see! I can has artsy "fake" names too!!!] mono-ethnic civilization, its neighbors are all techno-fascist, or not-real and the duopoli of the Moralintern are invaders and colonizers (I'm not even going to bother looking up the "artsy" pseudo-Slavic and/or pseudo-Spanish names the author got from randomnamegenerator,com for the EU and the US) This all is structured in a frighteningly professional way and does a terrifyingly good job distracting from it's agenda and targeting multiple audiences simultaneously. It's brilliant this way: it adjusts the SAME message to different audiences without tipping-off the others. How do I even know, if this is so brilliantly done? A blunt reference to the two Ichkerian wars, described (of course) from the official Kremlin perspective tipped me off: it was so pointlessly full of very personal hatred it shattered the illusion, so I started going back and re-reading dialog options. I don't even know what to do with this. As I said.. a very specific background.. and luck.. Thank god not many people will play this.
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