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🧩Relooted Review🏃🏾♀️
(only for the tutorial and first two missions. PLAY THE GAME!!)
I know for a fact the one-star Steam grifters heard the opening music and were more offended than they already were 🤣 DON'T LET THE RACIST LOSERS WIN! Leave good reviews!!
The music!! It's just getting me, it is. I love it.
It's certainly got a lot of atmosphere!
It looks smoother on PC than on TV (we ported it to the tv for comforts sake), but not bad. Very stylized. I wasn't pressed.
Voice acting is a joy, loving the accents, loving that Black Africans and places IN Africa are central to the plot. Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, and more.
Big sister coming through for little brother as the intro, classic.
The tutorial is really simple. Good for beginners, assuming you've ever played a game before.
Nomali- the Lady MC- is "All Africa Free Running Champion"- you are in good parkour hands 👍🏾
You can take easier or harder routes through the platforms, but you will get through it. You can try multiple ways, if you want! Just gotta plan it! It'll even show you some of the Whole platform.
It's a very pretty game! Very vibrant. People have been taught to imagine places in Africa as dirt huts, poverty, and misery (and we know why) and not a place full of life and culture. I like how this counteracts that mentality. And Afrofuturism!!!
We meet Feng (Chinese), Etienne (French), Annie (Afrikaner) showing that other people do interact and are still present! It's just not about you. I've been wondering if Ndedi is Afro-Chinese, but I'm sure I'll find out with time.
I love that their elder and leader is "Koko" Grace, which in Maa (Maasai) means Grandmother.
LOVING all the hair styles!!
I love that it tells you about the places that we are taking the items back for. For example, the first item is to take the Silver Buffalo back for the kingdom of Dahomey (dow-oh-mee), and it tells you where it is (modern day Benin), and different details about its colonization (French) and its value. AS WELL as where you're going to retrieve it (i.e. who currently has it).
It's not even just the African artifacts! The game will tell you about artifacts globally that were commandeered by Western museums. There has been an Indian artifact, and there was a Brazilian and Haitian one in the demo. So EVERYBODY gets a little representation, artifact wise!
YOU CAN STEAL MORE THAN OME ARTIFACT AT ONCE! Depending on your skill level. And it'll tell you about the person, their country, and a history fact. This is an educational game! It's really my favorite part, that you get to learn about the items we're taking back. I can absolutely tell why the "we hate Woke™ colored people" crowd would try to review-bomb this game.
I wouldn't call it an "easy" game. It's still a puzzle game! Take your time!
In all, a very intriguing and very heartwarming opening to this game! It makes me so happy to see this sort of... Love and respect for African artifacts and culture. For people of color globally from their OWN perspective. I read that they hired voice actors for every culture represented (if possible) and I really respect that. I look forward to seeing what the rest of this game offers. Last we looked, it was only $15 bucks! Support Black characters and storytelling for 15 bucks!
More afrofuturism, pls!
I love this Leo and Diane Dillon piece:
I also have a few others over on my afrofuturism tag, but it's not a lot! If anyone knows any great afrofuturist artists from any time period, let me know in the comments/reblogs and I'll check em out
thanks to my patreons for suggesting this topic.
As a society, we moved on from Dirty Computer too fast.
Ora isn't finished yet, but it's time for a break and I'm too excited about her not to talk about her. I was iffy on the yellow but I'm glad I went with it, she looks like a sunset. Tae/Tay/Te's color scheme is based on a cloudy the sunrise because they are meant to be foils.
Ora is selfish, charming and will use her beauty, charisma and charms to get what she wants from people. She represents survival, and joy during hardship. Unlike the other two options, she doesn't have a powerful monster form and she is not dangerous because of her abilities. She has the power to hold attention. If she wants someone to look at her, they physically cannot turn away (or move.) That means, in order to survive the quarantine zone without being exploited, she has to rely on her intellect and be more ruthless than most. That being said, she is still capable of kindness and will look out for others as long as it doesn't jeopardize her money, or safety to do so.
commission! 💫✴️