[Kitten ClanClan]

anyone have some links to this discussion of the problematic content in the game that keep being alluded to?

i do feel deadly premonition does some awfully gross stuff, but i never felt like it was, as dais said some believe, "willful and conscious." there could have been (okay there probably or almost definitely were) some bits i perhaps didn't pick up on, but when i played it a couple of years ago, i'd say my overall experience was very positive. it did take me a while to get into the game, though, and i'm pretty sure i'd have completely lost my shit doing all the neat side-content if i didn't get the radio from george.
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[Kitten ClanClan]

dj, what is being discussed is largely dumped right at the very very end of the game.

swimmy, i've got to agree that thinking about that scene again with adi's framing in mind is pretty damning, but i still really fell in love with the cast of characters and their goofy interactions, and still really enjoyed most of the ending (and the rest of the game, for that matter).

i know quite a few people who i consider to be quite socially conscious that still really enjoyed the game, and i never really considered swery to be deliberately misogynist or hateful in what he did. emily genuinely seemed like her own character (mind you, like all the characters, heavily built on a few quirks) with her own agency in the game. i never got the vibe that she was written in as an accessory to developing york like i do from female characters in other japanese auteur's games (kamiya, kojima [especially kojima], suda51, etc.).

ultimately, i do still feel as though i could have a lot of my views changed on deadly premonition, but that will come with time as we see what else swery directs and as his ability to write female characters becomes more fleshed out with a library of examples.
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