Pulling from civil rights movement again with a big ol robot march. OH MY GOD straight up taking from the Black Lives Matter movement too. Fucking hell.

Haha public opinion went up from them standing their ground. BULLLLLLLLLLLSHIIIIIIIIIT people fucking would turn no matter what. Fucking Cage fuck offffffffffffffff.

Police brutality cuz fucking "ITS SO REALLLLLL!!!!"

Hank and Connor doing just fine now despite Hank being fucking traumatized by Connors ruthlessness last time at Kamzis or whatever the fuck the dad of all robots name was.

Hank believes now the androids are right to fight for their rights despite no real growth from him. He just is "well I guess I support them now."

Padding padding padding padding padding pointless time limits padding

*sigh* Holocaust and civil rights movement imagery is something that a lotta media borrows from. Very rarely does any of it do so to say something. Its almost always just shorthand to add weight to a story without actually building anything. A way for the writers to pat themselves on the back and say "I'm so smart yall!"

Finally all three stories are intersecting. Connor and Kara crossed at one point but its pointless and she just runs away from him. Some 10 hours in and now the game is finally bothering to tie things together.

Now there's robot lynchings happening. *groans so loud the house shakes* Thankfully just mentioned and not shown. Jesus fucking christ.

Magical android lady finds Connor and says "you're looking for yourself." BULLLLLLLLLLLLSHIIIIIIITTTT!
No one is on a self reflective journey! No one wonders about themselves! No wonders what its like to be! There is no journey in this fucking story!

I'm fucking dying! I knew Alice was gunna be revealead as an android but the reveal is just out of nowhere! Just suddenly she has the circle light thing! Why is she an android? What does this have to do with anything? Why are there android children!? Why?

Oh ok there's another android child that looks exactly like Alice. Fucking the direction is so wonky I couldn't tell they were separate. Still why? That doesn't change their relationship. If anything it makes all the times when she got sick and needed food make no sense.

Ya know the idea of this game is inherently flawed. There's all these big decisions and they're presented as being important and you have to make the right ones. That's not how it works Cage. You can make all the right decisions and things can still go wrong. You fucking shit goblin.

Markus is now talking about eugenics bullshit and now I expect a live action David Cage to walk in saying "they're just like us, we are all monsters."

In the context of the universe the way androids gain freewill is a fucking nightmare. Like you just wish really hard and you can make your own decisions. This is how Cage sees the world. Economic status, physical ability, or cultural factors don't inform your decisions you're just not trying hard enough!

They decided to fail a bunch of QTEs to see if it mattered and actually got Markus killed so whatevs. Kinda hoped he'd live to see what happened with him later but I'll just watch another playthrough.

"Statistically speaking there's always a chance for unlikely events to take place." God this makes me pine for Nier Automata so bad. That game said the same basic thing across some 60 hours and did so much more gracefully.

Holy fucking shit the president is a Hillary Clinton look alike. Declaring martial law. Also again borrowing holocaust parallels. Cuz shallow game.

One thing, and this might change in the next few minutes as we venture into the company proper, is that we have no idea what Cyberlife is doing. They make the androids and afik have a monopoly. Clearly they would have an influence on the politics and culture around androids. This game has spent 10 hours and not once touched on the giant corporation.

The government is not intervening at all with the company? They have thousands of robots on hand and on display but somehow nothing is being done about them? Is the government being payed off or controlled? Will the game bring it up? Probably not or if it does itll be for a sec and be empty and pointless.

OK this is just a silly thing I noticed. Connor is being escorted in the Cyberlife building, he wants to free the robots, and the guards are taking him to floor 41. Reading the floor chart that's marketing. Connor needs to help them come up with a slogan for a new cola. Cyberlife is pivoting to cyber soft drinks.

I gave Advanced Warfare shit for using Holocaust imagery as much as it did and boy howdy this game makes AW seem subtle and nuanced. The androids have to deactivate their skin? Like why? Also remove clothes cuz tasteless and shitty. Like jesus Cage finds newer depths every minute.

Lol another Connor showed up with Hank. Hank is all "awww crap he's a fake, also I'm ok now after you traumatized me earlier."

Press X to Jason is back!

Gooooooooooooooooooooood! I just sound like a broken record at this point! David Cage appropriated the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement for his shitty wank fest! This is garrrrrrrrrrrbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaageeee!

The two Connors are mixed up and now Hank has to figure out which one is the real one! OOOOOooo so clever!

Oh fuck this twist. Turns out Connor was in control of the corporation the whole time! It was all planned! What a fucking crock.

The corporation has their own state I guess. Like corporations already have that kind of control. What's the point of engineering an uprising?

Everybody died. What a fucking trash pile of a game.

Wow the players said it was the worst game they ever played. Even worse than Golden Compass and Dark. Damn.

Gamers are so poisoned. They have such a desire for gravitas and story that they see something like Detroit and latch on to it saying its art. When all you consume is games you want validation that its art. So gotta talk up something like Detroit cuz it has "THEMES" and "HEAVY THEMES"

Holy shit thats a good point. The game doesn't use androids to rethink race it uses race to rethink androids. Cage used something that exists and has been analyzed and applied it to a fantasy to try and make it seem real. He faked it. Its nothing but a mask. Peel it all away and you're left with nothing because there is no substance.

Source vid in case this gets boosted separately.
https://youtu.be/TSC4IhCM4iQ?t=2087

The moral of the story is "oppression is bad cuz they'll oppress you back." Did Ken Levine sneak into this? These mother fuckers all think alike.

So Nier covered the topic of what it means to be human. Turns out there is no perfect human. Not for robots and maybe not even for us. Because we are all imperfect and stuck in an endless journey towards that perfection. We can try and try and never hit that. No one can Become Human is what I'm saying.

Nier made me feel a spiritual connection with strangers across the globe and also forced me to stare into a nihilistic abyss and in doing so instilled hope in me. Detroit just made me bored and disillusioned.

God. The Chloe robot in the menu was so moved by watching you play that she now has sentience and wants to be free! Now you have the choice to let her go! AGAIN! No one has any sense of self! They are only defined by everyone else! Nobody thinks for their god damn selves in this game or wonders what their "self" is.

The players said no and now she's going to reset herself so she forgets and goes back to being a machine. Jesus christ the existential horrors of this universe!

Final Survey
"How often did this game move you?" Fucking fuck off.
"What was the toughest choice you faced in DETROIT?"
Well accepting Alice as a robot is easy cuz it changes nothing between them.
Being pacifist or violent with Markus was pointless.
Shooting Chloe as Connor was also pointless and fetishistic. So I would have to say the hardest choice in Detroit is selling the game on eBay or going to the Gamestop.