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There should be a master post of what games align with your brand of leftism. Like obviously FFVII is for the anarchists but CRPG classics like Morrowind are for the Juche Pilled.
Me off to where I belong for my civ 4 preference
call it the political game-pass
I never played Morrowind, what makes it so Juche?
Nothing really.
If anything I'd argue the meta-narrative is sorta pro-colonialism, the Dunmer are always presented as being super racist, backwards, superstitious and chauvinistically nationalistic, meanwhile the Empire is corrupt but otherwise, seems to do an alright job of administering the area, and even implementing some progressive reforms. It's almost an r/neoliberal game. But that's a kind of off the cuff read, a super-fan maybe could do a deeper dive.
Overall I think the game was just really big into lore and world building in a really cool way, I don't think the writers were mulling over real world political allegories much.
Really don't know since I never beat the game and I'm talking out my ass.
Ah. Okay, yeah, I wasn't sure if this was all an absurd joke or if there was merit. Haha
Sorry for killing the joke.
FF7 original is a masterpiece though.
Indeed.