Exactly. He is apologizing just because he can get in trouble, and because that's what people do when they've done a bad thing.
What's funny about this one is Phil begins it by admitting that he *isn't* at all like Ichiban because he states that when he began he wasn't trying to be an inspiration. Phil just wanted to make money playing video games. Ichiban's whole thing is he wants to give former criminals a chance to become civilians, which is normally impossible because there's basically a 5-year gap where former Yakuza are unable to apply for traditional jobs/bank accounts/get homes etc. He "works" at a job placement thing, but he's not really doing it for the paycheck or anything which is why when the game starts with him being fired, he repeatedly states he doesn't care about the fact he's unemployed and not making money, it's that he feels like he let down the people he was trying to help. He also doesn't really care about the video that took him down and never tries to get revenge or debunk it and even admits that it's not entirely wrong because he does have a questionable past.
And all the dent said to get that response was calling him cringe. That spack attack was something snapping in Phil. People don't make faces like this even when they're angry unless a dam inside them has broken and their emotions are out of control. The guy he went rabid towards has been a member for years, too. He's not just some random.
What if we're all looking at this the wrong way. What if "he is just like me" isn't Phil saying that he is like Ichiban, but that he thinks Ichiban is like him. In other words, Phil believes he is the standard that Ichiban is trying to emulate. Phil probably just wonders why the rest of the world can't get on his level.
Also, he think that "Break the foutth wall" is project yourself in a character.
I want to go back to this now that I have extra context from playing the game.
I mean didn't he basically imply that by saying that the game was inspired by his life?
When he said "try me bitch!" It really felt like he was channeling Ralph for a second. They should work together.
This was peak psychotic.
Yeah, bad choice of words. Some level of identification and suspension of disbelief is required, but when you're reading events of your own life into the character's narrative, you've gone too far.
I legitimately had a similar thought. Someone is spinning the dialogue wheel, just one that changes based on the amount of money you give.
DSP could read a war novel and make getting shelled or reprimanded by a senior officer equivalent to something that happened to him; this is DSP's world, we just live in it (if you let DSP tell it).
I gotta say, this is why I like the detractor community, and many of my fellow autists here. I just saw it as Adachi already doing some sort of loss prevention work and he was refining their shrink management methods. I hadn’t even thought of this angle. Proof that even though we’re a bunch of mouth drooling brain dead morons that need to use a spoon to eat shit from Phil’s ass, the community (for the most part) can hypothesize and pose shit that makes sense and has evidence, instead of just talking about how the entire world is one giant detractor and he’s fighting the good fight, and it just must be true because he claims it. Therefore, debunked, idiot. Tuh huh huh.
He already lives in a warzone, if you let him tell it. Somebody walked away with his cart at a grocery store one day and he compared that to getting robbed, and tried to act like rule of law has broken down in his Seattle suburb.
