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Umurangi generation is a simple game. It's basically an FPS where you take photos of the world around you in different locations. Places like a rooftop and a military base with a simple goal. Take photos. The game gives you a couple objectives but allows you to take photos at your will otherwise, with the only penalty being a ten minute timer that you can ignore entirely. So off you go, roaming the environments and taking in the scenery. It starts off nice, but very quickly you learn about how the world has been fucked, and what's happening is something everyone will just have to accept. And at the start, it's amazing. The levels are open ended and you can achieve your objectives in multiple ways from multiple angles, encouraging you to explore the levels and take in the scenery and more of the story, with some really good satire on things like police, neoliberalism, youtube rantsonas, and life in the late 10s-2020 in general. One thing I will say is that the objectives can be kind of vague at times. The second level's 'sarcastic writing' part probably being the worst, but it also has the issue of asking you to take a photo of an animal, only for it to be a picture of the animal instead. But besides that, it's cool to experience a story only told through setting and no dialogue. Highly recommend if it goes on sale as the asking price is admittedly a bit much.