DarkSpectre said:
Also this statement here is really disturbing. Sounds like she has a real sick mind.
"I like to externalize my desires and fantasies in my games" If this game reflects her fantasies then she has some serious issues. They put people in mental wards for fantasizing about murdering people...
No. They don't.
At least not in the US. You may live in some African backwater in which sorcery is still a capital crime,
DarkSpectre, I do not know. But civilized nations don't incarcerate people for thought crimes. If they did, most scriptwriters in Hollywood, not to mention thriller-fiction writers world wide, or even game designers, would have to be
put in mental wards for fantasizing about murdering people. Heck, most consumers of such fictional media would have to be so incarcerated as well, for sharing (and in games, actively participating) in these fantasies.
And no, only for a tiny, tiny percentage of the population is
fantasizing not enough, though the media imagines that more
GTA players have to enact their carjacking and prostitute-killing crimes. In fact, the US Army has banked on the belief that players of
America's Army (or even the
MoH and
CoD series) will find such virtual offerings a tidy gateway into armed forces, by promising an institutionalized license and opportunity to kill. Amazingly, though, most human beings by far can watch violent movies and play violent games without feeling the cumulative drive to go out and commit murder.
But just because you don't like a fictional offering, or cannot find its appeal doesn't mean the person who wrote it is mentally disturbed.
On Topic: I still find it annoying that any of these such games can be called a dating sim. Interestingly, most eroge that I've encountered features much in the way of fantasy sex, but little in the way of actual courtship, or in gameplay for that matter.
I'd think a dating
simulator would look much like
Sims 2: Nightlife or
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life. I'd certainly like to see more games (or more media in general) in which relationships look more like they do in real life.[footnote]Such as sex
not being a reward for the hero stomping a dragon, or the driving force for a vengeance story. Usually sex is the reason
not to answer the call or the reason to hesitate before getting some locally while stationed in Guam. Or, even, cause to get home before Jody comes along. I could even see sex as cause to cry in your beer because your loved one bought it while in action, or worse is now in a coma, thanks to injury under fire.[/footnote]
Regarding Encyclopedia Fuckme: I think my favorite line in the whole thing is
Oh God Anni this is fucking SCARY and HOT but that is a giant fucking knife and we have never really had a conversation about playing with knives yet. which is both indicative of safe, healthy relationship protocols[footnote]Expressing your boundaries and respecting those of others, this is a necessary science in relationships that include BDSM, power play, edge play and such, but really
should be taught to and practiced by anyone who wants to deal with other living creatures, which is to include humans trying to interact with other humans.[/footnote] but also delineates the point when this goes from a play scene to assault, since our protagonist has expressed a limit (though rather nicely) and Anni promptly refuses to back down.
The smutty bits communicate well the heat of the relationship, though I don't sexualize the threat of getting filleted. That aspect reminded me somewhat of Tom Harris' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harris] novels (
Red Dragon and
The Silence of the Lambs are strongly recommended. Not so,
Hannibal.) I wanted active resistance to be more effective (getting the fuck out of Dodge) than it turned out to be. And I was dissatisfied with the...rather sudden and fantastic...conclusion, and while I can see what Ms. Anthropy was trying to do, I think a more graceful and grounded-in-reality solution could have been found and applied.
238U.
