Story-driven indie for Windows, pay-what-you-want on itch.io ending today

Given that it describes bonfire night as “English Thanksgiving” I’d be very suspect about its historical accuracy though!

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    1 month ago

    I ended up in an argument with some Americans about the British stealing the tradition of Halloween from the US.

    “How can it be British?! You didn’t have pumpkins”.

    I had to point out that we know the British didn’t ‘steal’ the tradition from the US because we know we stole it from the Irish.

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    Good lord there’s some historical revisionism in this game

    Guy Fawkes was not a freedom fighter. Guy Fawkes wrote about wanting protestants dead. He was part of a religious extremist group that wanted to persecute non-catholics.

    James I, while certainly not treating Catholicism equal to Protestantism, treated them well for the time and compared to other protestant nations. In fact James I is believed by many historians to have been a closeted Catholic.

    The plan of Fawkes and his group was to assassinate the king, destroy parliament, execute all Protestants in any position of power, kill all Protestant clergymen, and put forward a puppet Catholic queen.

    Fawkes was not a good guy.

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      That’s no way to speak about his holiness the pope’s first indie game release!