2. The politics were a bit too close to real world politics for my taste. So if we side with the indigenous people technology and innovation is retarded. What's being said here? Not sure I know but I do know it made me feel uncomfortable.
The thing is... you weren't really siding with the natives. You were siding with the Queen and the nobility. The same people who allowed the poor in the gullet to suffer. They had no real incentive to change the status quo. I didn't view this as a comment on the actual abilities of the native peoples at all...
after all, the game makes it clear that their ancestors played a very important roll in building the tech that created the gods in the first place
