Fuga: Melodies of Steel

Reviews don't lie it's a fun and compelling game. The children don't even bother me like they usually do in games. Good difficulty.

A relatively simple strategy game with a relatively simple story, but it makes excellent use of its medium. Frankly, the writing and the gameplay are each just mediocre on their own merit, but the way they work together elevates them to something really compelling, helped out by the evocative music and visual art. The basic ludonarrative conceit of the soul cannon is brilliant, though it could have been even more effective with some meatier writing and more challenging gameplay backing it up. I would ALMOST recommend this to anyone interested in exploring how video games can work as an art form, but there's one caveat. As you might be able to guess from the promotional materials, the story involves a fantastical WWII allegory. Unfortunately, it's not particularly thoughtful in how it handles that very loaded concept. There's nothing outright hateful toward any of the real-world groups that the real-world Nazis targeted, but it falls into lot of common, lazy tropes that tend to reinforce mainstream misconceptions about how racism and genocide work. If you consider that a dealbreaker, give this game a pass.

Despite the lack of goats in the game, the game itself is goated.