I enjoy the premise of the game but to me the message seems to be blatantly anti communist, but I have not yet played it. Any thoughts on this?
I enjoy the premise of the game but to me the message seems to be blatantly anti communist, but I have not yet played it. Any thoughts on this?
I didn't get the sense that the game was being transphobic so much as it was portraying a transphobic society. Nothing about the presentation makes me think we're supposed to take the invasive body scanning and blanket rejection of those who don't fit the mold as cool and good. Having said that, though, portraying behavior without appearing to endorse it can be a difficult thing even for the best creators (see: Fight Club, The Sopranos, 1987's Wall Street) and I wouldn't tell anyone who sees endorsement of transphobia in the game that they're wrong.
I see what you mean, but it unsettles me that none of the people you can imprison for presenting a different gender that what's on their passports mention or even hint at that they are trans. They say stuff like "what?" or "that must be a mistake" instead of something like "I was born female and could not change the paperwork, please don't send me to the gulag". You can play the whole game while not acknowledging that transgender and intersex people exist.
For most other paperwork mistakes you get one migrant with a story and you need to make a choice. For the mismatching sex, the developer seems to comment on body scanning but not on transphobia.