Players who enjoy reading but bemoan the indulgent nature of most visual novels will find themselves engaged for hours as they perform a moral tap dance on the head of the burning needle that was France at this time. Thankfully the writing is quite good, despite a few grammatical hiccups. Folks forget the coefficient of Liberation is institutional bedlam. The French people may have been right to take down the bloated, aloof aristocracy, but their methods and demands were vitriolic and savage. Any regime change is never clean, never simple, and most often very bloodthirsty. She may have been a terrible person, but did she deserve to die mercilessly – especially when you’re the one pulling the rope? You will never ever look at the beheading of Marie Antoinette the same way again. You are, like all humans, fragile, flawed, and easily broken. You are not an assassin or a commander or a soldier. We The Revolution revels in the morally gray muck of the time, where the law as it is written, and the ethics contained therein, crash against the churned up morality of the time.Īnd thus the French Revolution has never been so immediate, visceral, and terrifying. This is an intoxicating, interesting, vibrant loop across just about all the randomly selected cases. Had I asked this, the jury would have swung in favor of finding the defendant guilty, and well, ‘ justice’ – in this case recognizing a petty criminal does not a rapist make, would not have been served – even if the ‘right’ thing was to believe the victim no questions asked. ![]() ![]() So I avoided the question about the accused’s past, because he had many crimes and accusations, but no convictions. By asking questions regarding the victim’s history and the history of her family, the Jury sways in favor of acquittal, because the victim is a well-off aristocrat with a gossipy reputation, and in truly sick fashion, believe she might have been ‘asking for it’. ![]() This turns the game into a sort of battle against the jury, where you want to ask the questions you believe will deliver the desired result while avoiding questions that sway the jury away from your line of thinking.įor example, early in the game, there’s a man accused of rape, who for all intents and purposes, maybe did it, but there is not enough evidence to convict. You can’t catch a defendant in a lie, and occasionally questions you *want* to ask are not available to be asked by the game’s dialog system. The proceedings aren’t as robust as someone interested in this sort of thing might hope. The answers provide the Jury, and the player, with enough information (ideally) to render a verdict – which will sometimes require the player filling out a ‘report’ to ensure you have all the details correct.Ĭorrect details or not, what is ‘ right‘ and what is ‘justice’ in the eyes of the masses may vary, and as the final ruling falls to the player, doing the ‘right’ thing could result in a citizen uprising or worse – an unhappy wife. A typical trial has you reading two or three court documents, and assigning the evidence to various elements of a case (motive, method, accusation, circumstances, etc). Playing We The Revolution is one part visual novel (with lots of choices), one part Papers, Please, and some honest-to-goodness reading comprehension. Taking the role of a judge, you are tasked with finding defendants guilty or not, while being forced to balance the will of the people, the power of the state, and the pressures of family life. So it’s a hell of an accomplishment that We The Revolutionmade me care, possibly for the first time, about the French and that revolution of theirs. Perhaps because sitting at a cafe near a crowded Parisian street, sipping creme de menthe and chain-smoking unfiltered cigarettes, surrounded by people I can’t understand sounds quite a lot like hell. High fashion, laissez-faire attitudes, berets, baguettes, foie gras, wine, champagne, vineyards, even the fries. ![]() I never cared much for France until I played We The Revolution. Genre: Visual Novel / Courtroom Simulator Available On: Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam, PS4
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