Yes, it does glorify and make puppy dog eyes for what ‘could have been’ for the Soviet Union, but it’s largely an intentional setup for where the story goes, and the game’s story isn’t exactly subtle enough for you to not see where it’s going early on.Ītomic Heart is not a dumb game, but it’s very much in touch with its stupid, brash inner child. Make no mistake, Atomic Hearts’ ‘utopia gone wrong’ narrative may be blunt in many ways, but it doesn’t appear to be inherently sinister. The ‘oh damn, are the people in charge of this utopia actually bad guys?’ card gets played with little subtlety from the off. When things go so very wrong, he is quick to blame outside sources rather than the accused source of the problem, who just so happens to be his inspiration and father figure. Little hints of what could go wrong crop up early on, and when our protagonist first interacts with one of the machines responsible for this utopia, he’s far from impressed by them. The protagonist starts the game on a saccharine pedal boat ride along a waterway as a vivid parade takes place. In terms of the story, Atomic Heart begins by making this utopian vision of a post-WWII Soviet Union border on parody in much the same way the opening to Bioshock Infinite does (albeit not playing out nearly as clunky and clumsily as that).
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