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[Itch.io] Remember, remember, the fifth of November with Guy Fawkes & The Gun Powder Plot (jbo.itch.io)

submitted 3 months ago by smeg to c/freegames

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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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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] smeg 1 points 3 months ago

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