#and im over here like 'hey let my beautiful android children be they are trying their hardest'

[technicalthinker]

my d:bh watching has been wild bc I had no interest at first but then it came out and ppl started to talk,, mostly abt its negatives/bluntness, so i began watching sbfp bc I saw a clip from it going around and they seemed critical enough of it to at least make it entertaining

and catching up to it,,, well,, mixed impressions sure, but rly what intrigued me was the talk about “david cage tropes” and their “david cage bingo” or whatever. note that I only watched some heavy rain let’s play back when i was like 13 and I remember being intrigued at the time but have no idea now how it would hold up for me personally today.

But so I decided,,, to watch sbfp beyond two souls (bc they’ve kept mentioning it being... not good) to get a bigger picture of the other David Cage games and why d:bh’s expectations from people are like that and how it connects to how the game actually is.

and wow beyond was... sURELY SOMETHING (a mess. it was a mess but that’s another post) but I definitely started to get a bigger picture of it. Right now I’m working on watching through indigo prophecy and I’m rly feeling like i’m starting to get the complete picture but also with that said...

returning to d:bh and following the new episodes they’ve released.. it’s pretty interesting how d:bh seems to work with stuff that were seen as flaws into previous games and use it to its advantages (main characters being androids being definitely one of them). It borrows a lot of tropes from other things but a lot of those tropes are good and interesting (bitter human cop teaming up with cop android isn’t entirely new), a bunch of the characters are likeable and sympathetic, and just a bunch of technical stuff like sound and visuals have obv been worked a lot on. 

and yet don’t get me wrong, oh boy oh boy it has problems. worldbuilding, tone, setting, plot holes, some characterization. I assure you I’ll talk about that when I have time. But some things aren’t rly bad but more contrived. Some writing is so on the nose that it feels more like a slap in the face and it has sometimes made serious moments into either a moment of laughter or an eyeroll. 

even if the positive’s still count, I’m also still ready for it to fall into more of these problems I’ve mentioned or some stuff getting worse (like a character I like now may be worse written later, for example). Beyond Two Souls had a bunch of SUPER BAD MOMENTS coming out of nOWHERE so I’m ready for that again. 

but the positives are still.. positives... even when it’s bad I’m never really bored?And rn it doesn’t take anything away from the good scenes rn. Even when some character say something super on the nose one minute it doesn’t rly ruin a moment presenting a character’s internal conflict later. I want to see where ppl’s playthroughs go. Even when it flops it is interesting to see such an ambitious game and what they try to do. 

I’m really curious to see how I feel about the whole game after I’ve finished a let’s play or two