What a surprise, Expedition 33 isn't as indie or double AA as I thought
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Finished it the other day and there is definitely some woke shit in there with how some characters are treated and 'diversity' placements, otherwise the game is overall solid but 'zero woke shit' is just a flat out lie no matter how good the game may be.
I mean I don't consider a bunch of niggers in fantasy not-France dying in the first 15 minutes to be a big deal, but it is I suppose a check mark you can check. The only other complaint I have so far is that Lune is a somewhat obnoxious girlboss, but she isn't that excusively. Gustave is more passive and Maelle is more of a wunderkid than I'd like, but the experience so far has been pretty normal and completely within the realm of "this is fine." It even has anti-antinatalist messaging with Gustave/Sophie's relationship.
Contrasting this to something like Starfield, or shows like Andor/Fallout/etc, and it becomes abundantly clear that this game isn't anything close to delivering The Message.
Casually accepting the presence of non-Europeans in European/Euro-derived societies is absolutely core to The Message. This and bog-standard 1980s era Feminism (e.g. falsely presenting women as equally capable as men) are like 90% of the real problem.
Sure, there's a degree of difference between an African person in the background of a cinematic and a full-on African Transformer in a Wheelchair. One is insidious and subversive, the other is a clown show that's laughable.