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Tuesday, December 7 2010
Player Guilt Revisited in 'Beautiful Escape'
I separated myself from the action, but afterward I found what I did completely repugnant. I regret allowing the game to acculturate me into treating rape as the equivalent of any other action that I can take in a game.
Tuesday, November 30 2010
On Gender Ambiguity in a Binary Paradigm
I had free reign to corner and manipulate any man or woman that Verge had compiled a dossier on, but I'd only ever succeeded in capturing men. What could the reason for this be? And did my record of victims shape who Daily was for me?
Tuesday, November 23 2010
Considering the Politics of Sociopathy in 'Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer'
If there is one truly unsettling element to this game, it isn't the torture sequences, but the dating sim parts that precede them.
