its one of those games that's Fucking Compelling in terms of being a well thought out high-stakes interesting sci-fi malaise story where you learn bits and pieces as you go on like you're actually learning about the setting as you go. also with plenty of twists and emotional beats but it had a shitty pointless choose-your-own-ending that sort of threw me for a loop and i couldnt quite grasp what the larger ideas it was finally putting its mark on were meant to be. it should have had one ending because a few of them were like absolute fearmongering over the idea of anyone having any political power. but based on the strengths of the compelling-ness of it throughout, it did deserve any and all praise the narrative got.

i dont fully understand what you mean about it being impossible to be a teen kid of the Hong Kong diaspora but basically i think it's probably because the creators are the type of expats that are rich enough to have been involved in the HK protests or know people who were and they just want to 1. write what they know and 2. launder anti-communist sentiment in the guise of anti-authoritarianism or criticising "left fascism". the main creative director is a key figure in a post-modernistic sort of art collective from what i can tell. not an inch of grunge or subversiveness or anything of the like in them https://www.hongkongexile.com/about

I came across this game myself recently and a few Steam reviews mentioned that the developers are from the Hong Kong diaspora in and that the game was a metaphor for the events of 2019, which killed any interest I had in it.

The first big wave of immigrants from Hong Kong to western Canada was in the late 80s/early 90s. Are you sure the game is about response to the 2019 protests?

Those kinds of land acknowledgements are really common place throughout BC too, and aren’t a great indicator of someone's politics, sadly. Most small businesses have something similar, and if you study at a uni or college, your instructors will (often thoughtlessly) read one off the script at the start of every class

I was wondering about this game and even bought it after Jacobs Geller video. I was already aware that it involved the Hong Kong protests in a lib light, but I'm still interested to see where it goes when I finally start it.

That being said I know very little about what happened in Hong Kong other than the official anti-China narrative at the time. Can someone point me to material about it and to what really happened?