the light veneer of revolutionary politics then becomes more Fableistic then anything, which is the kind of nuance that i dont think ppl allow often enough in these types of works.Īnd it must be said there is specificity to the veneer beyond just the instinctively appealing age-old Beat The Authoritarian Corporate Bad Guy story. its not theory and its not a dense novel and its not a modernist boundary-breaker, its a comic strip. What rly makes it work is just how far it leans into abstraction, visually narratively and tonally. but i found it a lil stirring all the same even if its too Comfy and Silly to be motivating in a Firey Way i will admit to being a bit shallow here, my high rating reflects the fact that i found the game sweet and playful and memorable in its aesthetic experience rather then me thinking its an airtight political text.
i can see the breadtube takes in my head immediately, that its either a Stellar Amazing Communist Psyop or Deceptive Capitalist Opiate That Doesn't Match Up To XYZ Marx Writing And Will Undermine The Revolution, u get it DHJKSDH.
This is a game that promises that u can start a revolution on its store page, and is generally a v obvious product of a cultural shade (familiar to numerous indie games, particularly post-undertale) that mixes Progressiveism and Tweeness (associated greatly with millennials, who are now making most of our art, and also rapidly deteriorating in coolness). i dont wanna say its a worthless approach but it doesnt interest me anymore, and i find it very reductive: in how surface level the ideas are often presented, in how the aesthetic experience is so often held as an entirely separate entity rather then the conducting force, how the material impact of a specific work is often over-emphasized to the point where the impression is that art Creates culture rather then reality where art merely Reflects culture (granted its culture in conversation with itself, but no piece or genre or movement is more important then the ingrown results of how power is structured in our world) The older i get the more i find myself deeply annoyed at Political Media Analysis that eschews the aesthetic experience of a work in favor of using it as a barely-relevant springboard for didactic (excuse me, Educational) words on the political ideas.
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