Anjo Nala story has INCREDIBLE cultural representation, great characterization, and it achieves everything that Chapter 8 wanted to achieve 🇧🇷 (from a Brazilian, again)

Wow, that was INCREDIBLE. I just finished playing through Anjo Nala's quest and they completely nailed it. Everything that Chapter 8 could've been was put into her story. The cultural references, the sense of belonging, the real struggles mixed with a novel delivery of humour and seriousness, and the most essential: everything felt Brazilian to me. Really well-made 💚💛💙

This story actually reminds me of the poems and literary characteristics from Gonçalves Dias (a writer from the 19th Century Brazilian Romanticism). I recommend searching it up, you'll find his writings absolutely beautiful.

The procession, the traditional delicacies, the references to the Rio Grande do Sul revolts with colonel (I'm still unsure if they reference the Ragamuffin War from 1835 to 1845, or the 1923 Revolution, so if anyone knows for certain, please let me know), the bucolicism (a characteristic eagerly implemented in literary works by Brazilian writers in the period of Arcadianism during the 18th Century), and so many other historical and societal details that they gathered and put into this story were SO GREAT, AND I FEEL SO HAPPY 😁

I was really positively surprised when colonel sang in Portuguese:

"sempre alerta e altaneiro

um soldado brasileiro

forte, bravo, destemido

nunca foge do inimigo."

(Which seems to be a hymn inspired by the Hymnary of the São Paulo Military Police, but it could also apply to other hymnaries from other states if my research is correct + colonel's VA seems to be Brazilian, by his accent, which was also a good surprise).

Anyways, I could go on and on about how much I loved this story. It made me feel great as a Brazilian. Such gorgeous complex narratives we have in this country. Anjo Nala was a good plot device and active character to display such a complex range of emotions and experiences that one could go through when dealing with the feeling nurtured during tough times in this nation, without being stereotypical. I absolutely adored the addition of elderly people, reminded me of some actual elders I've met in life.

Let's just IGNORE chapter 8 completely and make Anjo Nala story the true chapter 8. Anjo Nala is the truth 'Tristes Tropiques' we met along the way, meanwhile Chapter 8 is tristes trambiques lmao 🤣