On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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So can someone who played Slay the Princess tell me what that game was about because it's getting glowing reviews but I played ~90 minutes of it and it seemed completely incoherent to me
To me it felt like it had the aesthetics of substance, but I really tried looking for substance and found nothing. There were those segments were the game threw vague, cryptic phrases at you that sounded meaningful but when I read them all I could think was
Why does the princess turn into a demon muscle mommy or why does she bite her own hand off in her default state, why is anything in this game the way it is, I should be able to draw some conclusions, interpret some meaning from it but I got nothing. It felt like someone tried to do the Stanley Parable, which is kinda about being subversive and meta purely for the sake of being subversive and meta, but instead of subverting storytelling tropes and video games as a genre, Slay the Princess just tries to subvert... itself?
I feel like I'm missing something here, all the reviews are like "Oh wow one of the most amazing storytelling experiences in recent gaming history" and I just don't get it. What am I missing here?? Like yeah, I only played 90 minutes but the game isn't that long, at 90 minutes I should be able to at least have ideas and guesses as to what this game is about, I should at least be able to feel that there is some substance in there. You can play 90 minutes of Disco Elysium, hell, you can play 3 minutes of Disco Elysium and immediately know that there's a lot to it. With Slay the Princess I got nothing.
It took me about 2h 30min to finish the game. I think the conclusion was pretty good and I was happy with it. I would just finish it and see if you "get it by the end". Might just not be for you and that is fine.