The Battle of Olympus
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In Plato’s Republic, Socrates opines that the gods are indeed gods when they are wholly good and are the cause of nothing bad, simple and true with no need to deceive mankind with falsehoods, and most importantly, perfect in form and thus neither need to alter themselves in any way nor require anything outside of themselves. Think about this when you’re playing this game and for the third time in a row you have to warp back to the beginning level and spend up to an hour fighting hundreds of little goddamn slugs to grind for little fuckin olives so fuckin Zeus can have his little fuckin olive treats and give you a little goddam wing bracelet to warp you to some fuck place in fuckin Greece

Reviewed on Aug 03, 2022

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MegaDriver69

2 months ago

"If the gods took counsel together about myself, and what should befall me, then their counsel was good. For it were hard to conceive of divinity counselling unwisely. After all, what incentive would they have to work toward my hurt? Where would be the gain, either to themselves, or to the universe which is their chief care? Even if they took no special thought for myself, at least they took thought for the universe; and I ought to welcome and feel kindly disposed towards anything that happens as a result. If, of course, they took no thought for anything at all - an impious belief - when then, let us make an end of sacrifice and prayer and vow, and all other actions whereby we acknowledge the presence of living gods in our midst. Yet even so, and even if it is true that they care nothing for our mortal concerns, I am still able to take care of myself and to look to my own interests; and the interest of every creature lies in conformity with its own constitution and nature. My own nature is a rational and civic one. I have a city, and I have a country; as Marcus I have Rome, and as a human being I have the universe; and consequently, what is beneficial to these communities is the sole good of me." -- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 - 180.

Basically the game sucks. Do something better with your time.