Category: Tier One

Pro Philosopher 2: Governments & Grievances. The successor to a flash game called Socrates Jones – this time, it’s political (read that in a stereotypical movie sequel voice). The original was a fantastic jaunt through moral philosophy in a Phoenix Wright-style setting. It was great. So’s the sequel.

I mean, it’s an Owlcat cRPG, and you know how I feel about those. For a development studio with three games (and apparently 450 employees), they have an incredibly well-established brand. Unfortunately, that also means I’m going to have to start really criticizing some aspects of their gameplay and implementation of the Warhammer system specifically.

One day, many years ago, I was in the car with my dad listening to NPR while they interviewed someone about string theory and additional dimensions of space. At the time, I didn’t understand it at all. Now, I know enough to know that I really didn’t understand it. And that’s where my curse began.

I have two reason for writing this first impression: first is that Jusant is pretty fun game, and second is to tell of the trouble I had running it on Linux.