Wtf is that title? Who is pretending to be something they're not?
What an insane thing to care about, holy shit
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- a) people pretend only to be something they're not, otherwise it defeats the purpose
- b) the story is trying to build on tropes you're familiar with; I guess it could build on finnish stuff, but the only thing that's globally known that comes to mind are aki kaurismaki's films, which are all heavily US culture based
- c) observe the language and idioms we're using ITT
relax, keep your mind open to different things and you'll do ok.
It plays on “American government secretly knows about aliens/the supernatural“ trope, which is built on distrust in the American government. In this case it’s about the paranormal. They’re also making it clear that the government isn’t really the good guys here - doing experiments they shouldn’t do.
It wouldn’t work as well if it was about the Finnish government. At least they have a Finnish character who plays a major role.
And then there’s marketability reasons. They want to target the American audience because that’s where the money is.
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They even have some self-awareness about it. From the first Wikipedia article linked –
There was a desire to make the game feel less "American";[51] Lake said he had been yearning to add his native Finland to one of their games. Finnish actor Martti Suosalo voices the janitor Ahti, one of the game's supporting characters.
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