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1000xResist review - a deeply personal exploration of diaspora politics and psychology

Eurogamer's review of 1000xResist, an intense and deeply personal narrative adventure.

It's a pretty straightforward combination of exploration, visual novel-style scenes and dialogue, and occasional "zip" platforming sequences when Watcher enters the ALLMOTHER's memories during Communions, which have a simple time-manipulation mechanic to change the environment. Image credit: Eurogamer / Fellow Traveller There is nothing clearly analogous here about the game's message that could be slotted nearly into a CliffsNotes summary; it's not a simple diagrammatic exercise where you can draw facile, moralistic parallels between the perceived spectre of China and whatever is going on in the ALLMOTHER's childhood fortress of solitude, or how her parents met during the revolution. What 1000xResist has done is to borrow elements of this iconic narrative and adapt it to the mythology of the ALLMOTHER, and on a higher level, the framework of a student-led resistance movement that was so thoroughly repressed, censored, and brutalised (the protest anthem, Glory to Hong Kong, was just criminalised a few days ago) that it developed its own coded slang – a highly contextual and specific vocabulary – to ensure its story survived.

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