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Dustborn

Don't let the five-star reviews fool you

Contrary to what some five-star reviewers may erroneously believe, we live in the age of YouTube, where any human being can easily view the contents of any given game simply by choosing to do so. It has not been necessary to actually play a game in order to form an educated opinion about its contents, for many years now. Of course this dumpster fire has a 4.8 out of 5 from verified owners, because the only people who were going to actually buy it were the people who agreed with its politics and had low standards for fiction quality. You don't need to be "anti-woke" to cringe mightily at this game's easily viewable contents. Ragnar Tørnquist used to be a good writer, but you won't see any of that here. If you enjoy seeing what a celebrated game writer can accomplish when he loses his mind (and with it any semblance of understanding how to write well) to a hyper-politicized void, then you should buy this game. The writing is the only thing you could possibly want to buy this game for, since the combat is both simplistic and clunky (think "subpar clone of the surface layer of Arkhamverse combat"), the voice acting is middling, and the worldbuilding is potentially interesting but is squandered on the main plot. "Alternate history where America became fascist" has so many ways it could work well and it boggles the mind that Tørnquist picked the lame "just let me soapbox at the player for hours" route. The main plot makes nearly no sense, the inevitable betrayal is followed by a poorly chosen "we forgive you" moment despite the supposed stakes, and the "real" villains are actually the ones who think truth exists in an objective sense (instead of, y'know, the fascist police state that's hunting the main party). For a game that's pretty overt about having political messages that tie into real life, it makes some very strange and borderline incoherent gestures along that axis. I'm a leftist and I don't want this game's messages anywhere near my beliefs or causes. Avoid.

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