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One of the sidequests in Bravely Second left a bad taste in my mouth :x

The major sidequests all present you with a deep problem and ask an ideological question of the player. Most of them are just kind of silly, but this one presents a nation crippled by excessive taxes to the point that basic necessities are absurdly expensive and gives you the option between either: completely eliminate taxes entirely and get rid of welfare completely, or keep things how they are now

both of these are terrible options and it's giving you a false dichotomy, like you can't cut taxes to a reasonable level while still keeping the welfare that's keeping people alive

You'd think a game made as recently as this would address such topics in a nuanced manner, but...

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@packbat most of it was good! there are a few hard choices in it but until this one never any that were really major false dichotomies

making it worse is that after choosing the option to keep things how they are (look, it's fundamentally against our beliefs to remove welfare entirely even if it means huge taxes), the populace of the country seem really dissatisfied, one of them even saying he hates welfare. I don't know if people are also dissatisfied if you pick the other option because I didn't

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