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Vampyr: new game from makers of Life Is Strange | Den of Geek
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/vampyr/ ... is-strange

Love that description.

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It's set in Edwardian Britain, a time when Europe was struck by the twin blight of the First World War and the Spanish Flu outbreak.

That description suggests a very... flexible view of 20th century history.


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It's set in Edwardian Britain, a time when Europe was struck by the twin blight of the First World War and the Spanish Flu outbreak.

That description suggests a very... flexible view of 20th century history.


Might just be bad wording - weren't they a few months apart from the end of the war?

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jonbwfc wrote:
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It's set in Edwardian Britain, a time when Europe was struck by the twin blight of the First World War and the Spanish Flu outbreak.

That description suggests a very... flexible view of 20th century history.


Might just be bad wording - weren't they a few months apart from the end of the war?

The Spanish Flu epidemic followed quite shortly after the end of WWI - it's believed it's spread was increased by the troops coming home form the front lines. However Edward VII died in 1910 and WWI was a huge watershed in British politics and society so the period after that isn't characterised as Edwardian by historians at all. So even if we give them the idea that the aftermath of WWI and the Spanish Flu caused a lot of simultaneous misery, what the soldiers came home to was very pretty far from being 'Edwardian Britain'.

In fiction of course everything is possible - maybe in their version Edward didn't die as early and reigned through the war. But in terms of the real world it's rather sloppy wording, yes.


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