Three Moves Ahead 472: We. The Revolution

Three Moves Ahead

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Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Rob and Troy are bad revolutionary judges in We. The Revolution. But is there such thing as a good judge on a tribunal as compromised as this? It doesn't look like it in Polyslash's grim political adventure. The gang discuss the historical perspective that We. The Revolution adopts as well as its curious feature-creep as it moves from a straightforward legal procedural to something far more ambitious and less coherent. Why are you fighting for control of Paris? Why are you commanding soldiers in battle? Are its systems of political intrigue and persuasion any fun to use? The more you play, the less sense We. The Revolution seems to make, but the more hypnotic it becomes.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.
0:03.8	Tonight, we welcome ThreeMA founder, no, no, citizen, Troy Goodfellow.
0:10.1	Citizen, how are you this fine, Eve?
0:12.8	I'm well, citizen. Long live the revolution and death to the tyrants.
0:18.4	But revolution for what? Death to who?
0:21.5	I think these are some questions I still have.
0:24.6	After playing a goodly bit of We the Revolution,
0:29.2	a sort of historical adventure slash legal procedural slash strategy game
0:36.3	from perhaps the appropriately named poly slash
0:40.2	uh Troy I decided we had to discuss this game after one evening like months ago you'd played
0:49.1	like five minutes minutes of it and you said I'm pretty sure this French Revolution game
0:53.8	was written by a bourbon and I started playing more of it and you said I'm pretty sure this French Revolution game was written by a bourbon.
0:55.8	And I started playing more of it and I started to think maybe it wasn't in fact written by a
1:01.6	burpin but there was something profoundly weird about its telling of this history. I sort of led
1:09.9	you into this hell.
1:16.5	Do you want to explain what you found there, what We The Revolution is?
1:19.2	What We The Revolution is. It is a combination of Phoenix Wright, reins, a board game, and some of the most annoying mini-games you would have ever found on Xbox.
1:33.6	It is a very weird melange of different game types.
1:39.9	You start the game as a judge.
1:42.7	You are a judge on a revolutionary tribunal, and you
1:46.0	have a couple of small cases come to you at the start, and you're very quickly thrown into the
1:50.0	high politics of the French Revolution. You start just some basic break and enter type stuff,
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