That is a weird point of view, it's like saying a man cannot write woman protagonists just because he's not one.
I agree with that, you can totally write a story from a woman's perspective as a man, but for that you should research, have empathy, and get that shit right, otherwise people WILL come for - just like people came for David Cage in this case.
The backlash was about how he handles complex subjects with the subtlety and nuance of a jackhammer, not the content itself.
For what it's worth, the racial allegories were the most mishandled imo. Detroit was a significant improvement over some of his past writing, but it still wasn't anything remarkable to me.
Absolutely. This.
The story was soooo badly told, I still can't. Like, they gave the androids a little triangle at the front like a David's star and gave them a ribbon on the arm.
They let them stand in the back of the bus.
They had literal concentration camps.
The humans that mistreated the androids where so comically evil. And the good androids were so absolutely saintly and victimised.
This was not a metaphor, he just pasted the most extreme things he could think off together to make a point. And it really didn't come together. It was a hack job.
"Heavy handed" doesn't even begin to describe it.
Not a huge fan of David Cage but Detroit is in my opinion the best choice and consequence based game this generation if not of all time. Great game and worth a play through especially since now since it's only $20.
Ouf. Someone give this person some game suggestions.
Like, probably even The Walking Dead is a better written choice based game than this was. And it's also a lot about humanity and what it means to save lives.
Instead of attacking Cage relentlessly ,how about acknowledging that ,yes, his Cage IS one of the developers to tackle these issues head on as the main focus of his games.he is basically the only AAA dev where violence is not the main mode of gameplay.
The only AAA Dev, because Nintendo now no longer exists apparently.
And even if you meant this more as a AAA Dev that tackles issues of racism and humanism, then a lot of JRPGs also tackle these issues - probably about as haphazardly as Cage does, just a lot lighter on the obvious imagery, lol.
But then again, Persona had you literally fight Hitler once, so there's that.
