I said that HL would get average reviews at best because it was gonna be a janky game, and that there would be two camps in the user reviews: reactionaries who barely play the game so they can stick it to the LGBT community, and the other camp who will play the game and just admit that it’s not super good.

I was wrong on the fact that the reviews would be average; the press loved this game – I underestimated how much they loved the HP franchise. But I was right that the game was criticised for some jankiness.

Anyway our own co-admin @ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml was right about it when he told me that the game would get an 85 on metacritic – it’s sitting in at 84!

  • loathsome dongeaterMAEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Strangely enough the game is apparently full of anti semetic tropes. The plot involves hook nosed banker goblins trying to commit blood libel. There is a collectible goblin artifact that looks like an instrument used in synagogues. All this is with just ignoring that goblins are trying to overthrow an oppresive regime. So in MCU fashion they use bloodthirsty and excessively violent means which are indirectly used to justify their oppression.

    I don’t know how writers end up writing a world like this in 2023. I would say that unless you live under a rock this level of anti semetic dogwhistling has to be intentional.

    • Munrock ☭English
      6·
      2 years ago

      I don’t know how writers end up writing a world like this in 2023.

      Well the world was written in the 90s by a someone born, raised and living in Gloucestershire, TERF Island, whose childhood education would have happened while T.I. was at peak Thatcherism and Red Scare.

      Having to write for this game would be like your boss dropping Atlas Shrugged on your desk and telling you “I’m gonna need you to write a prequel for this; we want you to make it more palatable for modern audiences but also don’t change too much of what made it popular in the first place.”