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Why do you feel Disco Elysium is explicitly leftist? I'm not disagreeing necessarily, just curious. I thought the game satirizes and mocks all political leanings, including leftists.
Because the authors are commie goons (ex Something Awful posters). If you choose explicitly fascist or strasserist options "the world" (the writers) will punish you.
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As @Stefferi says, it makes fun of leftists the way leftists do so, communists are essentially occasionally misguided but pure hearted, liberals/centrists are greedy, venal, stupid or all of the three, and rightists are evil. The focus on making fun of the center-left is really the most telltale sign that the game is a socialist one rather than just generic lib. That and the fact that the game is literally made by self-identified communists who praised Marx at an award speech, I suppose.
I should say I don’t think it’s a terrible thing for art to carry the strong ideological views of its creators, I just think it’s an example of the fact that it isn’t leftist politics that’s responsible for poor writing in games, at least mostly.
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