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What this game is really about was the relationship of Ireland and Great Britain. Obviously we have unbalanced power dynamics and the option to choose rebellion, which only leads to chaosand mutual emnity (but also a lot more GREEN of the screen), or one of obedience, which inevitably leads to slavehood and making a living off prostitution and smuggling shamrocks across the border. The symbolism here is obvious, note that the two dominant colors in the game are red (i.e., Britain) and green (i.e. Ireland), the scenery is clearly based on the the ruined Irish urbanscape during the worst days of the Irish Civil War in the 20s. The statue element is almost certainly a reference to the mythical Queen Maeve, and notice just how many Irish stereotypes the otherwise featureless protagonist embodies: shortness, signs of alcoholism, catholic shaped hips and androgyny. Seriously, all they were missing was the green foam hat, but maybe they thought that would just make it too obvious.
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I played all possible routes despite hating these types of platformers. I enjoyed it immensely. I wish I could keep obeying them to the end of the world. I suppose I don't make a very good human, but hey, I didn't ask to be born as a human.
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I can't understand exactly what this means, but I get the jift- I played through both routes- and I will say it's horrifyingly beautiful. 5/5!
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So, everyone's been putting their opinion of what they think of the game, and I decided I would try that myself. When you disobey, the world becomes pixelated and colorful. When you obey, this does not happen. It's a symbol. Obeying everyone makes everything you see black and white. And I'm not talking just in the game, but in real life. Blindly obeying everyone makes you see what they see, which means you can't see the whole picture, but you see in black and white. But when you choose to disobey someone blindly, you see in color. Not in detail, and not how the person sees it - you see lava, they see barbs. You see in pixels, they see in black and white. Obey, and you find yourself looking into what one person sees. Disobey, and you see a whole array of things, but not necessarily the right thing. But if you do both - try this in the game - and vary disobey and obeying, you'll see color and detail - two point of views.
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Obedience is where you're a slave and detail is provided. Choosing your way is being a man and leaving the person behind in a color-filled world. Who do you wish to be? I want will. Will provides power to do, and being the slave means doing what's told until death. Who wants death with constant sad pain?
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Nice jumping ability. Really makes the detail Bad Jumping Controls become real for the haters. GOOD THING IT DETERS THEM FROM THIS GAME!
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the last walk after your choices are made...when you disobey and make your own path, the world is simple and straight but beautiful in the color you've brought it. when you listen, it's clear-cut and precise, with gifts and details that weren't there even in the beginning. and that's the end. that's all. we can't choose whether end or not, but we can decide what kind of sendoff we get. i hope you all choose right.
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Too many precision jumps with way too many red blocks moving closer and closer. All while trying to not hit the spikes that surround me. Sort of sucks to play this. Meanwhile getting called names doesn't make it any more fun.
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This is really trippy, like the first time I played it, I wasn't sure what it would do in the end, so I chose to disobey him, not knowing what it would do. One year later, feeling very depressed, I decided to play this game again, because it had made me happy. This time I chose to obey him, and found a complete opposite reaction. So pretty much obey, and you get everything, disobey and you lose sight of things.
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This is an interesting game that deals with choice and autonomy (and quite possibly being trans*). However, the optimization is horrible. Even good computers may not run this game well, even at low graphics settings.
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All I want to do is play a normal game. is that to much to ask?????? This stuff is to crazy on my mind!!!! (I think this game is awesome)
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Damn, choosing the disobey path was crazy. The random, colored pixels made it difficult to finish. I just don't like random people/voices dictating my actions. But that was a short, fun little game.
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This reminded me a lot of my own mother. She says she loves me, yet she says that I am this, and I have to do this. I'm transgender, for context, I just haven't bothered to change my username to GoddessCynthia or something like that.