It’s fun and well made and expansive and the are plenty of non-combat options, but the “visual language is distressing”. Seriously? An 1800s fantasy analogue is enough to turn you off? Shouldn’t we, in theory, have this same problem with most historical games? Slavery and genocide were not invented in the 1800s.

I bet they’re good at de-bugging.

The game has been advertised, quite extensively, around the fact that taking sides will rightfully piss off not only NPCs and Factions, but also your party members—to the point where they might leave you, or try to kill you.

“You might prevent a tragedy here or there, but as long as there’s a mechanical incentive to acquiesce to formality and political decency, there’s no room for any transformative action.”

Just to add to this as someone who teaches writing:

I didn’t grow up with the same disadvantages that you did, but my family became poor while I was still living at home (college was my escape from a lot of things) and I do think that that affected me, in the sense that I didn’t want people to think I was poor. This has manifested in my acting in certain ways, like (as…

I realize my comment rubbed people the wrong way. I didn’t mean to sound cruel, but I realize it came off that way and dismissive of someone trying to share their feelings. I missed years of school as a child due to sickness and having to stay home to take care of my siblings. I had to do a lot of self teaching from…

This is missing the point and a little mean. I’m disappointed it got so many stars. This is a person who missed out on formal education for reasons he clearly outlines, using an informal medium to express his raw emotional insights. There’s nothing wrong with what he wrote.

Yes. People without education are less educated.

I didn’t say you were. I have been trying to learn and internalize how my own insistence on correct spelling and grammar can be classist, and subsequently trying to be a bit more kind in that regard.

I grew up in a trailer park and live in one of the most poverty stricken places in the US. I am not looking down my nose from at him from an ivory tower.

This,

I’m a huge grammar nerd but this is unnecessary. In this case it’s more important to listen to what he has in his heart than to make classist comments about how he got his message across. It’s a screenshot of the Notes app, posted to Instagram. He’s not submitting a statement to Congress.

Yeah I have some problems with Snoke being just some guy, whilst Palpatine wasn’t particularly fleshed out in the OG trilogy we knew his raison d’etre by the actions of the empire.

He mentored her for all of what? A week. I guess he might still be able to help as a force-ghost or whatever, but the role of training seems to have been much diminished in this series. Rey is pretty much Kylo’s equal without any kind of real training.

I don’t think it was ever in dispute that force users could be powerful without being a Skywalker. Yoda, for example, is very powerful and obviously isn’t a skywalker. This notion that Star Wars up to this point was some elitist monarchy strikes me as quite the fallacy. However, the Skywalker family has been the focus…

The reveal about Rey’s backstory is absolutely the most satisfying answer they could have possibly given us, precisely because it’s unsatisfying to Rey.

He had Rey enter with absolutely no backstory, had the force select her and push her into the story, and then had her receive strange visions upon picking up Anakin’s lightsaber in a movie series that has highly emphasized the Skywalker lineage up to this point. If that isn’t intentionally setting up a mystery what…

Yes. That’s one of my big hopes for the next movie, that Rey will build a new Jedi order that doesn’t make the same stupid mistakes as the last one. Like maybe ripping tiny children away from their families and turning them into magic space monks with no bonds to other humans is a bad idea.

I also loved the jab at the Jedi Order of the prequels when Luke points out how they were over romanticized and more or less brought about the rise of Palpatine and the Empire through their own ineptitude.