The creators of the project seem to lean a bit lefty. The developer likes to say this about themselves:
located on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples
As far as I can tell, the game is about generational trauma and teens dealing with their parents’ unprocessed grief. It deals with children of diaspora parents fitting in to the new host country. (Don’t @ me if I’m wrong, I couldn’t get far in the game).
One thing that hits me hard is “why fucking choose the Hong Kong diaspora?”. As Canadians, they had a fuck-ton of diaspora communities to choose from. Klanada has a rich history of indigenous genocide. They could have chosen Palestinians or Iraqis, war refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, S. America, etc. But they needed to pick Hong Kong and do more social chauvinism. And why am I especially annoyed that they’d showcase teens kids of the Hong Kong diaspora.
It’s mathematically impossible to be a teen kid of the Hong Kong diaspora
Even if one swallowed all the VOA shit about Hong Kong, forgot about the British flags flows at demos and sinophobia being thrown around, they’re still writing a game about an impossible demographic.
I think we all know what would happen if the devs made a game in Canada about the diaspora from Chile or Syria: chuds would absolutely revolt and there’d be truck convoys heading their ways. So libs are gonna play this game and support the US military bases in the Pacific just a bit more. Good job, fucking liberals.
The protests were in 2019. The oldest one could be is 5.
I heard good things about the game. I’m not saying that no one should play it. I guess I just ran out of patience for what’s basically a walking novel. (really it’s fine to enjoy those games.) Also I’m in my 40s, so I’m a bit past parental angst. (again, no hate if that speaks to someone else).
I saw that a few of the ex protest leaders are now doing pro Western or pro Israel NGO stuff, which irked me.
That’s when the parents leaving for Canada is set. The teenager living with her parents stuff is set in the near future, and then the clones stuff is all in the distant future.
I’m not sure where the confusion is.
Anyways, I recently played the game. I wanted to like it, but it really fell flat for me. I like games that are narrative focused with minimal gameplay if the story is compelling, but this one just didn’t get there for me lol.
I finished the game, but didn’t care to bother with the different endings. The devs come off as some strain of liberals - probably some kind of western chauvinist social democrats or whatever