just finished it and man, [parody]ing the heads of the literal illuminati has never felt more satisfying. yes i know the series has a problem with its portrayal of violence but cmon, taking out a gigantic piece of shit like the stuyvesant asshole in the first mission cannot feel bad to me. anybody else play through it it yet?
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Marrakesh is pretty based though (minor spoilers i guess but I'm pretty sure this is all in the mission briefing), it's a general trying to stage a right-wing military coup with the backing of western financiers, planning to establish martial law in response to false-flag attacks from fake revolutionaries that he's paying (in response to the prison break of a Swedish banker who stole millions from the Moroccan people, which he also staged to piss people off). And you're also employed to murder him by another western corporation who has lucrative contracts with the current government.
I mean it's missing the flashing neon signs saying "The CIA is behind this" but it's otherwise a pretty spot-on assessment of modern-day military coups
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/EqF6ic1fyL.png
not technically a flashing neon sign, idk, that subtitled dialogue could mean anyone.
maybe the culinary institute of america has a lot of explaining to do, okay?
:cia:
What's funny is that there is a CIA guy who recurs throughout the series, often in his underwear and in need of 47's help.
haha touche
Haha no you see, it's the ICA actually
If you explore the levels and listen in on NPC conversations, the writing has a clear anti-capitalist angle, but yeah isn't explicitly communist.