Wannabe amateur game dev who swears a lot and memes on occasion.
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Spirit animal is the sloth.
are you actually telling me they made a new life is strange game starring the first game's protagonist and her blue haired gay girlfriend is just nowhere to be seen?? this is genuinely the FUNNIEST possible turn for this fuckin series
"but they have to respect people's choices in the first game" - they actually don't because it's the most manufactured trolley-problem ass choice in all of video games
"b-b-but the first game was all about her getting over her blue haired gf's death" no it was about nuking your hometown so you can go be gay
"you can't use your powers, they make the storm worse!"
"you have to use your powers one last time, it'll work this time I swear!!"
I think it was pretty clear from the way those endings played out that they considered letting her die to be the "right" choice or at least the one most people would pick (and they were wrong)
The storm represents rejecting the hand you've been dealt and upending the status quo. The storm IS Max, tearing to the ground the structures that killed those people. Arcadia Bay didn't save them from the bullies and the rapists; Arcadia Bay created that storm. If the only way to save the system is to sit back and allow it to kill the people you love, then you are morally obligated to destroy the system.
The reason the trolley problem is so enduring in the collective consciousness is because everyone instinctively knows, that trolley needs to be destroyed but no one is allowed to pick that option. The trolley problem is about saving the trolley. It's about finding an excuse to save the trolley that you can live with.
"They have to respect people's choices" they say in the game with time travel and magic
I also feel like it's just the wrong option. Picking the 'save thousands of people at the cost of the character and relationship we've built up the entire game' just shows the game hasn't had the emotional impact on you that they were intending it to have. I would have also accepted the idea that her new power was born out of picking an ending in LIS1, so her power is to switch between timelines right? I feel like that would have worked well.
i miss turn of the millennium Atlus who not only said "yeah the canon route in Persona 2 IS is the gay one" and the direct sequel is written assuming you had Tatsuya choose Jun.
