Forcing the player to feel bad about the things you make them do is some real "are video games Art? 🤔" circa 2006 energy
The clouds part and the angel Roger Ebert smiles down on us. "I was wrong," he declares, absolving all gamers. "Would you kindly...forgive me?"
Movies are passive, movies don't pause themselves and make me pretend to kill a dog to see the next act, and then go "whoa holy shit dude I can't believe you actually killed a dog"
I'm a doof and forgot to reference what I'm talking about: Maddy's review has been circling around in my head all morning. Art envy in video games is boring as hell, it's like when Batman comics got all brutal in the 80s so they could be for Adults
I don't necessarily disagree but this is the same narrative trick we've been doing since the original Bioshock. It was bettered already with things like The Walking Dead (not perfect but better). Portal even parodied it *13 YEARS AGO*
