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Political Commentary: Legacy vs. Master of the Wind

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Whoah, Solitayre, you came back for this?! Awesome!


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Political Commentary: Legacy vs. Master of the Wind

I'll chime in here. As someone close to the same age as you, I agree that the game feels like it hews a little closer to the post-Bush era ('Bridge to Nowhere' jokes notwithstanding)in more of a 'where do we go from here?' sense. The world is at peace on the surface, but a lot of ugliness still roils underneath.

I think a lot of what I saw as the 'problems' with MotW's politics was the delivery method. Cade's a good dude but there's often a sense he hasn't really examined what he's talking about very thoroughly and much of what he says comes across as callous and shallow, but the plot conspires to make him right about everything. This especially comes across with how he and Stoic treat Finley, who disagrees with them on some things but is pretty much never anything but a supportive and helpful ally from Arc II onward.

The religion angle in particular I always felt got oversimplified, to the point where it felt like religion was at the crux of every bad thing that had ever happened in Solest's history, and the people who had the most power in its structure were supervillains wearing badguy masks. "Good" religious figures like Dasani don't really exist, they're just ideals the character look up to, to create a narrative that religion isn't all bad.

However, then I have to examine how much of what you projected onto the "right" came true in the Trump era and I can only assume you really were a prophet all along. I kind of agree with the LPer you linked up that that in a lot of ways, MotW feels more relevant to the Trump era than the Bush era.

Anyhow I feel like the idea of exploring heritage, both good and bad, is definitely an interesting idea to look into and Gallia is a great way to examine it. Gallia did some bad stuff not too long ago and how the various characters interact with that history, whether they deny or embrace it or rail against it, decide whether or not to be defined by it, is a timely and interesting idea.

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