Blackveldt wrote...
Octarin wrote...
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I believe the point was to illustrate the horrors that Cerberus can and does inflict in the name of science and human progress. And it was truly horrifying. Combined with David's tears, mantra, and music, it made for a rather emotional scene in my opinion. Try not to single out David's autism; instead, look at David as an individual and equal--not merely as this autistic for whom you feel sorry. It may be cliche to write about another genius autistic, but not necessarily 'thoughtless.'
Be it as it may, and not that I don't see your point, I still find the emotional trigger manipulation rather cheap and pathetic, all the more cause they know it works. I don't have a single friend -except me, who, as a total renegade b...tch, abandonded the poor thing to his fate- who didn't feel tremendously sorry and saved him. All I'm saying is that the IMAGE of the Overlord could have been more mild, and more ... implicative, instead of eye hooks and power cables in his mouth and an overall Pinhead appearance. Besides all else those things aren't even justified, how is the geth neural netwrok exactly interfacing with his stomach, or abdomen, or pharynx? Or what's the apparent use of the eyehook? They are just there to create an impression, and that kind of alien vs predator impressionism is a bit tacky. I understand the need of showing Cerberus for what they are, aka the big bad baddie, cause that point kinda skipped our attention in the game, but the whole thing seemed very forced. A good example is how Archer suddenly turns around and feels remorseful towards his brother, after one line of dialogue, while at the previous one he was saying how harmless and accidental it all was. I mean, come on, what happened, they run out of scenario time? The end was blatantly disappointing. What took place in five minutes should have taken fifteen, and it would probably have been absolutely gorgeous. For some reason, they fumbled it at the end.
As for the autism thing, yeah I understand that it might be a bit too much to think of it that way, but as a mother I stood thinking about what I would be expecting if I had an autistic child, and I was shocked to find myself feeling very fearful. A friend said that after someone has played the entire game an autistic dude suspended in the air from hooks aint gonna merit much attention, but I'm not so sure, if the player isn't 15+ as the rating requires. And we know how well the ratings are observed and obeyed. I don't know, maybe I'm paranoid, but i still feel that it wasn't throught through as much as it should have been.
Parenthesis: I hear and have heard many people go to war against the hammerhead, saying how much worse that the MAKO it is and how godawful it is, and so forth... I found it way better than the MAKO, the handling was extremely more smooth and corrective, yes it doesn't apper to have any armour but it does have seeker missiles, so your aim doesn't matter as much as it did with the MAKO, and overall it's quite cool. What I found a bit awkward was that you can't save while in it. End of parenthesis.
Modifié par Octarin, 04 juillet 2010 - 01:30 .