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It gives the game a distinctive leftist bent.Īnd finally there’s the idea of how to play well. This is conjecture, idk if I’m comfortable enough with the game to say that this isn’t confirmation bias, but in my experience, siding with the Rise feels not only “moral” but also has distinct mechanical benefits. A negotiation card for the Barons due to their position of hegemonic power, or a Battle card for the Rise in their position as a militant movement.Īnd as a follow up: the Rise card is better.

For one, at the start of Rook’s run, you get to choose one of two cards based on who you are initially working with. He’s an outsider on a mission from someone else (who we never get to know).īut more than from a simply narrative perspective, there’s the intersection of the mechanics and the narrative. But Rook of course has no qualms doing whatever because well… he’s not really involved in this struggle. Hebel, the closest thing to a neutral party in the narrative goes out of his way to point out that, since the Barons control everything, the Laborers aren’t truly free.Īnd again, this doesn’t change whoever you side with. Kalandra says that killing the Barons is justified because Laborers die day by day (in a form of violence that is rendered invisible by the power structures), and that’s just a thing.

Many games fall into this trap of “whichever choice the player makes is the right one.” Where if the player were to ally with the Barons, the Rise would be painted as this destabilizing organization that’s hurting more people than it helps.īut it doesn’t do that. (At a point a Baron even says “their accusations are hogwash, they all signed waivers”)īut what’s more is that this framing doesn’t change whoever you side with. Where Rise care about their lives, or their movement, Barons only care about profit. Rook’s campaign is about a conflict between a Militant Labor Union, and a Mining Company, and, throughout the story the Rise (the Labor Union) is portrayed as sympathetic, where Spark Barons (the Mining Company) are not. Griftlands politics are interesting from a few levels, and the first is from a purely narrative perspective. That is, it persists in a way that does not challenge the player’s worldview.) (In short “Apolitical” means not that the politics aren’t there, but that the implications and impacts of said politics are rendered invisible. I’m not gonna get deeply into the “Politics in My Video Games” conversation here because: 1) If you’re reading this we’re probably on the same page 2) I’m trying to get this piece done today? And the implications of what is considered “ideologically neutral” deserves well… an essay to itself honestly. (Also, to flex, and because I need to feel like this giant time sink was somehow worth it, I’ve won max prestige runs on every character, but I digress)īut Griftlands has a key thing going for it beyond simply it’s gameplay and that is its Politics. There are several interesting synergy packages in each deck, and the unpredictability of events makes choosing to or not to take additional fights to make your deck stronger a real risk.

I wouldn’t have ended up putting in 150 hours into this god forsaken game if I didn’t find it satisfying to piece together strategies for play. Mechanically, the game is a Roguelike Deckbuilder following from the footsteps of Slay the Spire (another game I very much love), and it is pretty good, only from that perspective for sure. It’s also on the Switch, Playstation, and… more I think? I mainly play it on the PC, and it is, for lack of a better word, a very good game.

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So let’s start, Griftlands is a game released by Klei Entertainment, officially for PC on June 1st, but in early access for much longer. I will revisit both the game, and this piece in time, but for now, this is it. I have so many things to say about Griftlands that there’s no way I can do that just as my daily writing piece. But then I got in a conversation about Griftlands and well, I sure cannot shut up about that game.

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So originally I was gonna be writing an analytic piece on Code Geass R2 today, and I really did plan on doing that. This Essay will have minor Spoilers for specifically Rook’s Campaign in Griftlands.

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