Pro Philosopher 2: Governments & Grievances
Intelligible Games · 2024 · Adventure, Education, Puzzle, Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure
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About Pro Philosopher 2: Governments & Grievances
Pro Philosopher 2: Governments & Grievances is the long-awaited follow up to the Flash hit Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher, once again challenging the player in a series of interactive debates with brilliant thinkers from across history. Master logical moves to untangle argument puzzles, find internal contradictions, and cause your opponents to freak out!
Shifting the focus from moral philosophy to political philosophy, Pro Philosopher 2 presents a new story and new philosophers, with plenty of overblown comedy and drama.Ariadne Jones has no time for distractions: not the party downstairs or the debates on TV, and definitely not the weird philosophical afterlife she gets pulled into every time she sleeps. But when her estranged mother arrives in that very realm, she's forced to tackle all the questions she's been avoiding. Questions like: what is the ideal government? Oh, and IS MY MOM DEAD?! Pro Philosopher 2 frames its gameplay with a personal story, delivering a juicy mix of political machinations and family drama— brought to life by a cast of over a dozen colorful characters. Whether you are dealing with your party hardy college roommate or Anime Karl Marx, each cast member has their own motivations, expressive art and animations, and more than a few quirks.
You don't have to have played the first game to enjoy Pro Philosopher 2... but hey, the first game is free. As is the first chapter in our demo!
Pro Philosopher 2 challenges you to find weaknesses in a wide variety of increasingly complex arguments, but you will not be unprepared! Use specialized questioning tools, based on real reasoning techniques, to cut through ideas with precision:
- Press for Clarification : What does that actually mean? Make vagaries less vague and complicated ideas more accessible.
- Ask for Backing : That's a nice assertion you have there, Senator, what's your source? Reveal unstated assumptions behind seemingly simple statements.
- Request Connections : How does this connect to everything else you are saying? Bridge logical gaps and banish distracting tangents!
- Challenge! Turn your opponent's own ideas back on them by hitting them with their own core premises! Or, you know, just tell them that they smell bad. Who knows. Maybe it will work out for you?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A uniquely education game played through the lens of an interesting philosophical discourse. But then, I am a philosophy graduate so I am biased in my evaluation...2 found this helpful
I really enjoyed the first Pro Philosopher, but I'll admit, the idea of debating Government philosophy seemed daunting. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that the player-character was similarly wary of the situation. This also helped break the ideas down very neatly and helped me understand them better. For me, one of the most interesting things is how it relates to the real world. There's some lines that you definitely get a sense of which way the developers lean politically, but overall the game does see and acknowledge multiple perspectives. It acknowledges a lot of the fears and critiques of current government systems (primarily American), but it ends with an overall message of how there's potential for things to be better. I also like that it explained a little more about the Jones family and why Ariadne is so passionate about philosophy. In my review of the first game, I said the game was basically Ace Attorney but philosophy instead of law, and I think part of my reasoning is that Socrates and Ariadne felt like generic inserts created because they couldn't use Phoenix and Trucy, Ryunosuke and Susato, or any other "debater and weird-girl sidekick" combo from AA. Fl…
TLDR: If you want an a visual novel that makes you ponder about the injustices of the world and it's solutions, buy this game. It will remain in your mind long after you finish it. This game is masterpiece, even better than the first one. I could talk about why or how it plays, or you could go and play the first one which is free and last like 2 hours, then read the rest of this comment. Ok, you played the first one and found out it's a "ace attourney" game about philosopherswhich is actually fun, what is new on this one? Everything is improved, you clarifications and backings bring more statements, you can challenge with difeferent ideas and in general they will respond to you in consequence, even if that is not the "perfect" challenge. Also, the writing is better, very funny with some gaming references. Music is still good, and art is a mixed bag, but other than the main character and some consistencies between poses, almost everything else i far better. Now, we don' play these kind o games to criticize what we usually do in other, what about the ideas? Oh boy, this game should be played by everyone. To try to find the perfect goverment system... it's a challenge, a challenge …
Great sequel, basically what the original was but better. Love how vibrant all the artwork is now.
I love the socratic method of reasoning part 2
Fantastic depiction of several political philosophies. And funny too.
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