- obviously there’s the fact that her critiques of DE are so unabashedly surface-level that you cannot tell if she’s actually played the game or read a plot summary/review of it.
- but there’s also the fact that she’s proposing a supposed improvement on what DE is with her own prompt, which in-and-of-itself is the lowest form of critique in my eyes–‘what if you had an entirely different idea?’
- and then the prompt itself is a doozy:
- she somehow found a way to both critique DE for being unimaginative with its scenario/having a white man protag and propose, in alternative, the absolute whitest possible scenario imaginable
- in the implicit shift from a grimy Eastern Europe to a comfy Western Europe, she’s managed to gentrify her scenario proposed in a critique about diversity
- she wants to keep disco elysium’s, unexamined by her, ‘wonderful writing’, while stripping it of all the rawness and deliberate confrontation that is at the heart of it that would conflict with the idyllic nature of her scenario and her stated opposition to griminess
- her idea of a more diverse story, if we’re taking it as she’s presenting it, is swapping a white guy with a white gal, which, I mean, diversity win, I guess.
- the fact that this is the most generic, safest-possible indie game idea imaginable. I could go on itch.io and find 50 of pretty much that game. this is the idea that like 50% of developers have when they’re thinking of a quick point-and-click game for a game jam.
i could go on, but the most scathing possible point I could make to this tweet is that this person is a BAFTA Judge
The diversity point is valid I guess, but that only makes me want the DE2 idea of a pregnant woman in Revachol who gets yelled at by her fetus.
listen to me, get this, triplets
Replacing the voices in Harry’s head with dodecatuplets.
haunted by all the different people her child may grow up to be?
You find a lone cigarette on the ground, still lit.
Soldier: Mother, stamp it out! Littering is the enemy!
Girlboss: It’s a cigarette, so what? God, mom, you’re always like this! What’s so interesting about shit you find on the ground?
Starchild: A bird dropped it. You should find the bird and return its cigarette.
I also want this now
This sounds like a mundane modern take on Slay the Princess. I can hear the Voices Of arguing this.