Throws civil rights in your face the whole time
The writers are inordinately talented at binding compelling plots and vivid battles into a seamless spell, but they charged away from that with reckless abandon.
Look, Ive been supporting civil rights (no, not for one group of people - FOR ALL, no exceptions.) for a large portion of my life.
That said, the writers decided to include, in an app under the "games," section a massive dialogue on gender equality. On top of forcing you into these situations (all with extreme reactions), there is a massively anti-climactic gender equality scene. Its a dense mess, the whole thing reads like a moral stream and preaches the infantile "golden rule" like a sermon.
None of the characters has any backdrop of this whatsoever. It was like, all of a sudden, these characters gained a whole dimension to them and anglicized or demonized themselves as much as they could. The writer clearly wanted to get personal opinions into the game. And thats fine.
But its not fun. The last one was great, the next one is my favorite, but this is the only one that I want my $2.99 back on.
Its fine to add personal opinions in a game as long as those opinions are the main subject. Its egregiously clear that they let gender equality fully define this game.
Forced, incessant altruistic propaganda does not factor well into gaming. Its like being punched in the face every time the rival team scores, when you bought tickets to watch so you wouldnt get it.
This game is not a reprieve from the world.
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