I just want to point out how bland and dry Alex managed to make the game via his writing.
for emphasis:
Picture someone who is a weak lil bitch. Who feels guilt weighing on their fingers for most dark actions they take in video games, and also feels guilty over shit they didn't even
do in a video game that was just part of the storyline. To list the details would be obnoxious, but in short, they have to put lots of effort into morally-challenging games, and games where you're made to feel guilty
destroy them. Someone who is impacted by even shitty, half-baked games.
Yandere Simulator's basic story is brutal as hell. You're murdering young girls before they can even graduate high school, some with possible budding careers and high goals, some who are sweet and pretty innocent, and others who are relatable to the target fanbase who mostly consists of teenage girls who are likely not very popular in real life.
It's fucked up on several levels, think of all those heartbroken families and lives being cut short, and some characters with deep insecurities or problems never being solved or laid to rest, all because of
you.
And Alex has described the game in such a way, has molded it in such a way, that none of that matters. That he can't make someone who teared up over a not really morally-challenging game feel even a
pinch of guilt about what they'll do in his because he's just so fucking horrible at writing interesting characters worthy of feeling sorry for.
Alex cannot make someone practically made of
with low standards feel bad for being a monster, even when presented with the right tropes to expand on.
how did he manage to even do that?
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