System Shock Critique - After the Hack

Опубликовано: 10 Март 2026
на канале: Monty Zander

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System Shock's 2023 remake keeps the soul of the game and gives us a damn love letter to what it wanted to be in 1994. It's incredibly faithful, and while it looks fantastic and is more accessible, it retains a lot of the complexity and lack of compromise that I love in the original - and it does all of this without losing sight of the original game’s biggest thematic focus – transhumanism. So let's talk about it.

LORE DUMP
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Herman Faustus Art by ‪@SamanthaSaunderz‬check out her channel!

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Massive thanks to OliveTreeMusings who pointed out some interesting things while I streamed the game! 👇
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Making the System Shock Critique
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:34 - Part 1: Cyberfunk
00:22:07 - Part 2: Perfection_Through_Genetics
00:36:31 - Part 3: SHODANs_Body
00:55:50 - Part 4: R0B0P0CALYPSE
01:12:07 - Part 5: Never_Judge_Your_Player
01:29:07 - Part 6: Biology_is_Immoral
01:41:14 - Part 7: God_in_a_Box

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I usually like to keep all of my footage, references, and wider reading list in the youtube description but in this case I ran out of characters, so you can find them in the Google Doc below! 👇
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K...

MUSIC (in order of use)
Licenced by Artlist
1 - Gumo - Falling (Instrumental Version)
2 - Evgeny Bardyuzha - Lonely Astronaut
3 - Aquartos - Lost City
4 - Lance Conrad - The Future of Medicine
5 - We Dream of Eden - Candle of Consciousness
6 - Ian Post - Dusk (Instrumental Version)
7 - Jon Gegelman - Soft Awakening
8 - Eleven Tales - Vindur
9 - Linus Johnsson - Floating in Dreams
10 - Linus Johnsson - Home
11 - We Dream of Eden - Light Bending
12 - Yehezkel Raz - Interspacing
13 - We Dream of Eden - Outside In
14 - Gumo - Falling

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