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idk i never finished the first game but wasnt that one even more incoherent lmao, like if i recall wasn't the first game literally about working with loyalists to restore the Just and Benevolent crown, while chastising you for killing people the entire time

it's also honestly just a problem with the vast majority of steampunk in general, people create these settings in vaguely victorian colonial era settings with monarchies because 1800 had monarchy and then don't critically engage with the fact there's a fuckin colonial monarchy in their setting, instead having the rich fuck mcgee protagonist wearing a copper cog monocle run around blasting the evil guy fawkes analogues flash gordon style for the queen. easily one of the least self aware aesthetics of all time lmao

And Sokolov is just your kindly grandpa figure now. Pay no attention to how in the first game he was aremoved who kidnapped homeless people and deliberately infected them with plauge to experiment on them. Corvo just didn't tell his daughter about that apparently, and now he's a family man.

I remember later on that she gets called out for being a sheltered, privileged little shit by one of her companions and just sort of goes "damn I do kind of suck huh" in response. Like overall the writing is vaguely class conscious but in a very "lib thinking about the 19th century" way, and the "good" ending is just liberal reforms to the state.

it's tangential but while we're talking about dishonored. i feel like after the first game every game for a while had to have like a weird dreamy sequence with floating terrain and shit. that felt really influential. was dishonored the first game of this era to do that in that style or can anyone think of very similar examples that predate it?

I really like the first game despite its faults

the main character the story will be about some lowly poor who was noticed by a royal and got swept away into that lifestyle and now they get to be rich

Which is literally the backstory of Corvo. We get both in Dishonored 2!

Played through this game last year, its absolutely amazing! You're completely right about the politics especially with Emily talking about "the elites." It really doesn't make any sense. It didn't bother me as much in this game as some others, but i get it.

I think some of the incidental dialouge from Emily changes based on your playstyle. It's been a minute do i can't recall which ones change and which don't as regards the "i should of tortured mire people talk"

Protagonists siding with royalty by default is a big reason why I haven't enjoyed much fantasy media lately. I could see myself playing the hell out of Metaphor Resomethingorother, but I'm so put off by the royal quest of the central storyline that I'll probably end up skipping it.