![]() ![]() While I was occasionally frustrated by the controls (this game makes it a lot harder than it needs to be to simply highlight boxes), on the whole, I usually found myself rushing through the other sections of the game just to get back to the trials.Ĭonversely, I found myself dreading those portions of the game where you have to establish control of the city. There’s a heavy dose of politics here, since you need to consider what outcomes the different factions want, and you need to figure out the direction in which you want to steer the trial. Various cases are brought before you, and it’s up to you to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. #We. the revolution 1.0.2 trial#Now, if we’re talking about parts I mostly enjoyed, that would be the trial simulator. While I wouldn’t say this was my favourite part of the game, it still did a good job of weaving everything together and giving the game a reason to exist. Playing as a judge, you have to navigate through the treacherous world of French politics, balancing revolutionary demands with the preferences of the “common folk.” On top of that, you have your family to consider, and you need to balance the needs of your wife and children. #We. the revolution 1.0.2 simulator#Some of these horrors come through via the visual novel/life simulator side of We. Even if some people on both sides of the political spectrum have tried co-opting Jacobins and Robespierre for their own ideologies, in general, there’s not a lot of appetite for, say, the Reign of Terror or military dictatorships. Even though the French Revolution is one of the formative events of the Western world, it tends not to get as much attention as its American equivalent - at least on this side of the Atlantic - possibly because of all the horrors that immediately followed it. And, from that perspective, it’s interesting to see the game explore a historical event that’s fairly underrepresented in video games. ![]() Obviously, the answer is that it’s each of these things at various times, all linked together by the fateful events of 1789. Is it a visual novel about life during the French revolution? A trial simulator in which you have to decide how heavily you want to throw your lot in with the revolutionaries? A Risk-like city simulator where you need to systematically take over Paris’ various arrondissements? The Revolution, it’s hard to know where to begin talking about it. ![]()
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