Remember the point ends up being that the whole world ends in 1984 when Elizabeth goes mad and starts WWIII The fail state is any timeline that leads to Elizabeth seizing her full power and becoming dictator of Columbia, and the issue is *either side winning* leads to this
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's hard to keep this in mind, because the pacing of the game sucks But the theme seems to be "The world gets to decide if it survives by deciding whether it can spare this one Special Child's innocence and keep her from coming to hate and resent it" It always fails
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
It's thematically similar to the stuff Ellie is into in LiS and TLoU in that way, it just executed it really badly And yeah that's a shitty narrative that literally centers a white girl's feelings above everything else
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But I honestly don't think it's really that the message is "The Vox uprising shouldn't be happened, and it would be okay for the Founders' utopia to continue" The Founders' utopia was a track leading straight to Armageddon and the Vox were an attempt to stop that that failed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Ok but you can throw all the high-minded structural excuses at it you want, it's still a game where it explicitly has the rebellious PoC chanting triumphantly about how they're gonna rape the white women.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
After hours and hours and hours of having us having Columbia's propaganda say "this is what awaits of any attempt at equality among races and social classes," it says "yup!" & invites us to Pity the Sky Racists. No, that's not earned any grain of salt or benefit of the doubt.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
like, no, we are not supposed to see Booker and Elizabeth as Privileged White Bothsides types, they're clearly framed as protagonists and, in Elizabeth's case, moral authority.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Elizabeth yes, although as Arthur notes she turns evil in plenty of timelines At this point in my replay I'm still pretty committed to "Booker was always bad, he is actually the villain as the player as much as Comstock"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
Meh Nothing Booker does in game is really villainous, it's just meant to disturb you how comfortable he is with violence (and yet Columbia is a society that demands to be responded to with violence)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Even when he starts fighting the Vox it's because he has no choice because Daisy orders him killed
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I guess in hindsight the big twist is Elizabeth is the one fated to end the world, and the only way to prevent that in the current timeline is for her to die, which means Booker protecting her is dooming everyone Resonance with TLoU
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