Can we discuss this game? Because I just got around to finishing it. Holy shit, what a shift in tone...

I couldn't feel more empty about this game if I tried. Dialogues filled with wordy setences. Definitely a forgettable experience. And I almost finished it.

Weird, man. Your character doesn't even talk, and I think the only person who is excessively wordy is Royal.

By wordy I kind of meant the choice of "complicated" and unusual words in some dialogues but to be fair, at a point I was pretty much skipping the whole thing since the font choice hurt my eyes so I lost the patience.

It kind of left a bitter taste for me since the visuals of the game and style were constantly clashing with is themes and tone

I don't think I agree with complicated, but I will say that I sometimes wondered if anything was lost in translation due to the dude being Swedish and making a game that was about relatively "deep" themes. But that was mainly curiosity.

This. It looked bright and cheery but felt downright depressing.

Way too pretentious for my tastes.

>dude mankind is evil because they're like, draining the planet maaaan!
>governments and corporations are all bad maaaaan

The whole bit about how all religion is evil was just the cherry on top. Might as well have had Mother dress up as the pope.

He was both mad he was kept out of the loop of things and thought the worm could be negotiated with. Everyone else of importance was just fucking terrified of it and intended to abandon the planet.

>all religion is evil
Google "iconoclasm."
The entire fucking point of the game is that you and your allies are iconoclasts. Throwing away the old beliefs. The religion that has strangled the people into submission being the big part.
And yet, you're surprised when the game does exactly that?

Even setting aside that the game is entitled Iconoclasts . . .

Honestly, did you play or finish it? The message about draining the planet is flipped on its head because the being they consider their god is literally just a vehicle for an asshole bird alien who is draining the planet. The only reason anything bad happens is because Royal accidentally sends a signal to the bird that lets him know shit's fucked. It isn't bad for the planet to be mined. It's the planet's whole purpose. They just made it go faster than the bird wanted. Meanwhile, the evil religion/government is actually splintering apart through the whole game with three groups who want different things in different ways. It's not as simple as you claim.