Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a perfect portrait of a cyberpunk city fighting for revolution

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Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a perfect portrait of a cyberpunk city fighting for revolution
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'My return to Hong Kong hit me like an armored truck full of orks.'

As of 2020, Hong Kong lives under a draconianthat flies in the face of the"one country, two systems" approach that doesn't formally expire until 2047.

A winning part of this particular Shadowrun game is the powerful synergy between its legendary setting and the irascible Hongkongness of its ensemble characters. Hong Kong has always belonged to its people, and Shadowrun knows this. All over the city, revisiting these slice-of-life stories is often frustrating, bittersweet, and deeply moving—painful memories, awkward conversations, reminders that my character’s Cantonese is shamefully rusty.

Cyberpunk is usually about current realities rather than distant futures, but reentering the Shadowrun world prompts a bitter swell of nostalgia. It’s been over a year since the world watched ordinary Hongkongers resist the growing yoke of mainland authoritarianism , and it’s still painful and even a little dreamlike.

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