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Every review was along the lines of ‘good first hour, the rest was bland and boring’. Not really GOTY material.
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There's a ton of antisemetic dogwhistles in there associating the goblins with jews. The goblins are stealing children for magical rituals is just fantasy blood libel. The game contorts itself such that the good route means leading a pogrom.
They fired the lead designer after it came out he was a nazi.
the goblins were already antisemitic caricatures with greedy hooked noses bankers who value property different and even have a star of david on the floor of gringotts in the movie (which was because it was on the floor of a real bank they filmed that in, but that's still some intense coding when added to the mix and really should have been rethought!)
and then the plot of this game is basically a nazis wet dream where they're stealing children for fantasy rituals to subvert the current order (under which they are intensely marginalized, which the franchise repeatedly shows it believes they deserve)