LukeBeeman

friendly neighborhood rando

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Software engineer, ace/aro, any/all pronouns. I'm into all kinds of media (especially indie games and anime), media criticism/analysis, and politics.



Time-loop mystery/exploration game set in an ancient Roman city that will turn everyone there to gold if even one commits a "sin".

I really loved the ways the game digs into the complexities of its core conceit; for instance how evils committed within the bounds of the law (e.g. charging an exorbitant price for life-saving medicine) are apparently permissible within the Golden Rule’s definition of a sin, while perpetrators are protected from retribution since theft or violence would doom everyone. The inhabitants of the city were varied and interesting, and I had a great time listening to their stories and hearing their different outlooks on living under the Golden Rule; piecing together the web of relationships and motivations and discovering the city’s secrets in order to solve everyone’s problems and try to prevent the Golden Rule from being broken was incredibly satisfying.


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