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Seems like a generic power fantasy euro fetishist slop that disco Elysium made fun of in the doomed commercial area. It is a fantasy story in every way that disco Elysium wasn't.
The premise is creatively bankrupt, the art is a subpar simulacra of the Elysium style, and the culture vultures at ZAUM are only confident in selling it as such.
Playing this is the 21st type of liberalism.
I've been enjoying Rue Valley btw. It's a much smaller story, but the "you have 47 minutes to get to know the locals then it all restarts" loop is pretty neat. Especially since you pretty quickly run up against a rich history of corporate exploitation and resistance that's likely tied to your loop.
Esoteric Ebb is due to come out on march 3rd and from having played the demo it's so far the only thing that really got that DE vibe to me (currently downloading zero parades).
I thought Rue Valley was nice and you feel the influence, but it's sort of "If you like CONTROL, you'll like Alan Wake 2"
The only problem I have with it so far is they fucked up the audio mix for stuff and there's a constant buzzing/cutouts.
It's definitely a lot rougher around the edges.