woke?

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Having had this in my wishlist for quite a while, because I like the art style and general premise, but never looked much into it to avoid spoilers. Just got a notification from ITAD that GamesPlanet has it on offer now, and thinking about finally buying it now.

Just wanted to know how woke it is. Don't mind values contrary to mine in any form of entertainment, but not interested in anything that's as heavy-handed (and lame) in its moralisation as the later Borderlands games for example.

[TheEqulizar]

The game makes you think quite a bit about morality, but it is not going to try to get you to believe a certain thing or shove an ideology down your throat. It is actually very interesting the way it is done. If that's what you were referencing in terms of woke.

[jn2002dk]

It is absolutely woke. Also, the poster above me is factually wrong and clearly never picked the 'women are not oppressed' option when talking to Akara about SPW

Disregarding that, what ever little actual game play there is ranges from bad to atrocious. Serving drinks is tolerable but not compelling. The person who designed the implant mini game should never be allowed near a computer again

[Springtheme]

Game's great. The message is, all around, a left winged one. Without spoiling anything, i'll just say it's very anti corporation (it's a cyberpunk, so not surprising.) I can't reccomend it enough though. Also tackles LGBT issues extremely well.

[edge_braak]

Seemingly it depends on how sensitive you are. Going by other threads, some people are giga triggered by this game and traumatised by it asking fairly basic questions about societal oppression.

But if you're a fan of Cyberpunk there's nothing in here that you shouldn't be well familiar with.

[Nictuku]

'Woke' is a meaningless term.

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Originally posted by Nictuku:

'Woke' is a meaningless term.

It obviously means something, seeing how other forum users have been able to understand and answer the question :)

[pugsonthemoon]

Originally posted by jn2002dk:

It is absolutely woke. Also, the poster above me is factually wrong and clearly never picked the 'women are not oppressed' option when talking to Akara about SPW

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate that question so much. It's the one part of this game that I genuinely hate. If the devs want to say that women are oppressed in the game's universe, they need to show it. It's fiction. They've given me no reason to believe that, though. Especially given the number of women in very powerful roles at Supercontinent, including the CEO and COO.

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FWIW played it in the meantime on Switch. It is "woke" (in a good way), and it is a great game all around.