It's always funny for me to read that Tim Soret isn't an alt right dude. I've been on Gamerama for years, which is a forum made mostly for talking about video games without mods and without "limits". There are a lot of great people down there, and i had a ton of great debates / discussions with them. But there was also Tim Soret, who said stuff like "Since the attacks in Paris, i just can't watch arab people in the eyes", and was also posting some really alt right stuff. I'd love to provide you some screenshots for that, but he deleted his account and every single message hours before the Microsoft reveal of his game, that's something you do when you have nothing to hide, right ?
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I really wish someone had screen-capped some of those forum posts because this is the first thing I've heard about him that makes me think "Yikes, maybe he hasn't changed since 2014 after all!"
I was willing to believe him when he renounced his 2014 tweets that everyone keeps posting, because hey, everyone is allowed to be wrong, realise their mistake and change their mind, but if he still hasn't, then like I said... yikes.
That said, what we are left with is still just the 2014 tweets and a lot of unsubstantiated hearsay. I had a quick look at his twitter as it currently stands, and there are hints towards him dealing with left-wing attacks. He re-tweeted this on Dec 22nd for example (sorry, I don't use twitter, so I'm crap at knowing how links work):
https://twitter.com/herlifeinpixels/status/1076696977667121154
But most of what he posts is just animation and coding stuff, as you would expect.
I still have The Last Night wishlisted on Steam. That doesn't mean I'm going to buy it the moment it comes out. I'll wait and read some reviews, see if any alt-right politics has crept in or not. I suspect that when Raw Fury had that 'little chat' with him back in 2017 it was to make sure none of that shit made it into the final product, and we should just be left with a story about a disconnected man in a hyper-connected future world. Still, I'll wait for others to find out before putting any cash forward.
(I also want to know if the gameplay is any good. Tim comes from an animation background, and everything about the reveal trailer pointed towards the look of the game being well-defined, but none of the mechanics being settled on at all. I suspect they've spent the past couple years trying to make a decent game out of the lovely visuals).
