Why Is Closing Doors So Complicated?
Jul. 5th, 2019 08:25 amGinger: Are you doing chores in this game?
Riona: Yes. Look, I have to swivel the analogue stick to pick up the dishes, then I have to use the touch pad to wash them.
Ginger: Wow. Have a fun day playing this.
Riona: Fortunately, I can't keep playing because I have to start work.
Detroit: Become Human is free on PS Plus this month, and my housemate has PS Plus, so I have the opportunity to play it myself! It is, regardless of the fact I've already watched a Let's Play, extremely stressful. The opening made me so anxious.
(But it had nothing on the 'Stormy Night' sequence, holy crap. I nearly got Kara and Alice killed straight out of the gate because I was incapable of closing a door.)
I love how much Hank hates it when Connor analyses things by 'tasting' them. Also great: his 'what the fuck is it doing now?' reaction on the other side if Connor checks himself out in the one-way mirror. And the way Connor, if one of Hank's instructions conflicts with his programmed goals, will cheerfully agree with the instruction and then disobey it immediately.
The Hank-and-Connor storyline is so much fun, whereas the other two protagonists' storylines are so incessantly grim. Unrelenting grimness is what I tend to expect from David Cage games, so I don't know how this incredible buddy cop comedy-drama found its way into this one, but I love it.
Markus/Carl is beautiful and true, and 'what sort of piano piece do you want to play for Carl?' is the easiest choice in the game. I slammed that 'intimate' button. I absolutely read them as boyfriends and I get really confused when the game tries to portray their relationship as father-son.
I have the policy 'don't use foreknowledge if you know for a fact you'd have taken a particular course of action without it' - for example (spoilers for the chapter 'Broken'; highlight to read), Carl will live if you fight back against Leo, but I knew I'd never have fought back if I'd been playing blind. Sorry about your boyfriend, Markus.
This 'don't overuse foreknowledge' policy meant I went 'okay, I'll intervene at the end of the interrogation with Ortiz's android, even though that got the Let's Player I was watching shot,' and I was very surprised when I got an entirely different ending to that scene! Gavin pulled a gun on Connor and then Hank pulled a gun on Gavin and it was great. Hank and Connor barely know each other at this point; Hank's evidently just itching for an excuse to shoot his colleague.
Some of the most hideous fanfiction I've ever written has been for Detroit: Become Human, and in my heart I'm hoping this playthrough will inspire me to write more horrible things.
Riona: Yes. Look, I have to swivel the analogue stick to pick up the dishes, then I have to use the touch pad to wash them.
Ginger: Wow. Have a fun day playing this.
Riona: Fortunately, I can't keep playing because I have to start work.
Detroit: Become Human is free on PS Plus this month, and my housemate has PS Plus, so I have the opportunity to play it myself! It is, regardless of the fact I've already watched a Let's Play, extremely stressful. The opening made me so anxious.
(But it had nothing on the 'Stormy Night' sequence, holy crap. I nearly got Kara and Alice killed straight out of the gate because I was incapable of closing a door.)
I love how much Hank hates it when Connor analyses things by 'tasting' them. Also great: his 'what the fuck is it doing now?' reaction on the other side if Connor checks himself out in the one-way mirror. And the way Connor, if one of Hank's instructions conflicts with his programmed goals, will cheerfully agree with the instruction and then disobey it immediately.
The Hank-and-Connor storyline is so much fun, whereas the other two protagonists' storylines are so incessantly grim. Unrelenting grimness is what I tend to expect from David Cage games, so I don't know how this incredible buddy cop comedy-drama found its way into this one, but I love it.
Markus/Carl is beautiful and true, and 'what sort of piano piece do you want to play for Carl?' is the easiest choice in the game. I slammed that 'intimate' button. I absolutely read them as boyfriends and I get really confused when the game tries to portray their relationship as father-son.
I have the policy 'don't use foreknowledge if you know for a fact you'd have taken a particular course of action without it' - for example (spoilers for the chapter 'Broken'; highlight to read), Carl will live if you fight back against Leo, but I knew I'd never have fought back if I'd been playing blind. Sorry about your boyfriend, Markus.
This 'don't overuse foreknowledge' policy meant I went 'okay, I'll intervene at the end of the interrogation with Ortiz's android, even though that got the Let's Player I was watching shot,' and I was very surprised when I got an entirely different ending to that scene! Gavin pulled a gun on Connor and then Hank pulled a gun on Gavin and it was great. Hank and Connor barely know each other at this point; Hank's evidently just itching for an excuse to shoot his colleague.
Some of the most hideous fanfiction I've ever written has been for Detroit: Become Human, and in my heart I'm hoping this playthrough will inspire me to write more horrible things.
