“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat.” — Roger Freeman, adviser to Reagan and Nixon, arguing for limits on access to education. The US is functionally illiterate by design. Literacy is a tool of freedom, something that is intolerable in the land of the free.
I remember when we were in development, I would sometimes sit in my office replaying this intro section on repeat while thinking, "Wow this team is really killing it."
Remember, this was a dev team that had never tackled such a huge project. Never made a console game together. And the project was the first time ever that a Chinese developer was fully developing a AAA western console title from start to end.
It felt like magic.
It still does 🖤