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I think the only earnest political stance Zero Parades has is "Fukuyama has got it entirely wrong" (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Everything political in the game otherwise is ironic nihilism except for

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Hauzmann, who is an unironic nihilist and as such at least one of the funner characters, albeit not exactly interesting

Except of course at every opportunity everyone including your own thoughts and the narration keeps bringing up that the explicitly in-universe End of History is untenable bollocks. That's kind of a funny bone to pick.

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

This might be the influence but my read on it wasn't that they even tried to actually interrogate anything political seriously. It feels like there's politics in it because a discolike has gotta have the fascist, the communist, the centrist and the neollib (here combined with the ultraliberal) options to react to things and with little more understanding to it than as a sort of Fallout 3 esque moral system it becomes basically flavourtext, especially since nobody believes in anything anyways.

Spoiler for the spies and major story points:

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Basically non of the spies you meet has any allegiance to anything resembling an ideology and will often flat out tell you this. But then most of them also hate spywork, they're not even thrill seekers or anything. The best motivation anyone has for getting (back) into it is Karoline, who wants to revenge murder fascists for torturing her which is understandable. The rest all seem to want to do suicide by cop and that's about it.