I'm sure someone could make a video essay about how city management games have political perspectives baked into them by virtue of what strategies are effective given their mechanics.
I feel like they didn't need any pretense for the things they've done in response. It doesn't make sense as a pretense, and they could have just done the things anyway.
A lot of the Riven remake's writing was carried over from the original, whose writing I like. I have my problems with Cyan's later writing. But it looks like the nature of Neyyah's writing problems is different from any from Cyan.
