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Reviews for "People's Committee of Game Development"
I get the idea and, it's fundamentally not bad but it lacks action I anticipated more.
I saw that women can be priests in this game and stopped playing.
What Russia has is not some liberal Anglican Church, In Russia the Orthodox church that Soviets persecuted was and continues to be as patriarchal as it gets. I doubt even Anglicans had female priests at that time.
If you make a game parodying that period and system then make it right and do not make such crude immersion ruining historical and ideological inaccuracies possible.
The whole concept of this game is hilarious, original and great, but that inconsistency is a deal-breaker for me. I will not participate in some Orwellian rewriting of history and pretend that in past every oppressed group was liberal and gender-inclusive by politically correct standards of meh current year.
EDIT: Read the dev comment, they explain away the problems I had quite succinctly
Arqcenick responds:
Hey, thank you for your review!
But I think you misunderstood the satire's target.
This game was actually a satire of the some of the western propaganda surrounding the communism. This is how I think the game development would've happened as it if perceieved by the eyes of the western media, and wanted to show how exaggerated the "evils" of communist at the time. Also how they combined all communist states to one to attribute evils commited by one communist country to all of them, and treated as identical as it made easier for them to attack those countries in their newspapers and radio hence easier for making western propaganda.
This is why (while mainly based on USSR), we combined elements of other percieved-as-communist countries, like personality of cult.)
So while I understand that you are upset by the historical inaccuracies, the aim of the game was sort of these. We don't ofcourse force you to intrepret this way, and it is not the most obvious, so reviews like this might and will happen and we're OK.
And you are right about faux cyrillic about readability issues. We weighed the pros and cons and decided that the amount of "theme" it adds to game is greater than the amount of "readability" it subtracts from the game, so we decided to go with it. (We probably misjudged it because well, we wrote those in so we knew what each meant withour reading :D) But looking now, it might be a wrong choice, as even I at times cannot read them.