Have to admit, I dropped this game when I first played it. I did so because I guess I expected Disco Elysium 2 for some reason.
Of course, this game is its own thing, with some *inspiration* taken from DE. Once I started treating it as such, I got hooked. The world is intricately crafted, whether you look at the artstyle, characters, mechanics, or the lore in the background. Being crazy and making idiotic decisions is pretty much as funny and rewarding as one would expect after getting here from Disco.
The game is heavy on politics of course, but really it's up to you if you engage with it. When creating my character, I tried to make myself, and as such the most important skill would be the one I align with politically the most. I am a pretty fervorous leftist, and as such, [spoiler] I chose Wisdom as my main trait [/spoiler]. I don't know if this was the main cause, but I feel like the chime which usually got the last word in was the leftist one, [b] even if the conversation was just the skills talking, not determined by passive checks [/b]. I could be wrong, but based on this, I assume that the game is given from a leftist perspective. Considering that, I really like that fact that the game doesn't dehumanize (or, whatever the term would be for non-human politically engaged creatures lol) beings with different ideologies. They're all portrayed as product of their environment and circumstance. Characters of every alignment and political stance are driven by their best interest, whatever they believe it is; be it the safety of their kind, freedom of choice, egality of all folk, rule of merit, and anything in between. Whichever character it is, you could see them existing as a real person if you apply real world rules to the world.
[spoiler]Also I am really glad I got to rizz the Polish angel at the end. [/spoiler]
