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Feb 23rd, 2017 at 00:57:47 - The Last of Us Remastered (PS4) |
Today I played through the sequence with Bill where we found his town and had to convince him to help us try to find a working vehicle. We tried to get a battery from a truck by the high school, but were ultimately disappointed. So we carried on looking and found Bill's former partner (and suggested gay love interest) which tore Bill up pretty bad. Definitely a moving scene.
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Feb 21st, 2017 at 23:05:38 - The Last of Us Remastered (PS4) |
Today I played The Last of Us Remastered, which does a consistently great job of presenting difficult moral dilemmas. The catch is that the player is unable to choose the way the story plays out, so for this reason the ethical framework of the game seems to either be Kantian in nature, or perhaps a criticism/analysis of Kantianism. In my playthrough I reached the settlement established by Joel's brother Tommy. Before we could do much catching up, we were attacked by bandits and had to defend the people within the base. Afterwards, Joel asked Tommy to take Ellie off his hands and get her to the Fireflies, because he felt he had done enough already and wanted out. Tommy initially resisted but eventually gave in to Joel's pleas. However, Ellie threw a wrench in things by stealing a horse and riding off. After saving her from the bandits pursuing her, she let out all her frustration, yelling at Joel and saying he was the only one who had never left her and now he was leaving too. Joel responded with a cold, cruel air at first before later relenting and riding off with Ellie to Colorado to find the Fireflies lab. Some nice heavy emotional shit right there.
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Jan 24th, 2017 at 00:28:14 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PS4) |
Today I played through the conclusion of the Hearts of Stone Expansion for the Witcher 3. In this quest I was faced with a major decision that directly determined the fate of Olgierd von Everec. When I first met Olgierd, I knew little about him besides the fact that he was the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws who seemed to be responsible for the deaths of at least a few innocents. I soon learned that he was blessed (or rather, cursed) with immortality; Nothing could kill him. Gaunter O'Dimm, also known as "Master Mirror" was a mysterious individual whom I first met at a small inn at the very outset of The Witcher 3's main story. At the behest of O'Dimm, who had cursed me with a strange scar upon our second meeting after freeing me from the Ofieri who had captured me, I helped Olgierd to fulfill 3 wishes which initially seemed impossible. In accomplishing the third task (bringing him the rose he gave as a parting gift to his now dead wife, Iris) I subsequently learned of Olgierd's dark past. The grief of Iris' spirit was so powerful that she had created a realm within a painting and now lived in this strange world between worlds. Her distorted memories showed how over time Olgierd had developed a heart of stone, becoming more distant and uncaring towards his wife in his pursuit of unlimited power, a pursuit that robbed him of all his emotions. After defeating Iris' fears incarnate and awakening her fully I was able to obtain the violet rose as proof that Olgierd's third wish had been fulfilled. Now I was left with a significant choice: I could either allow Olgierd's soul to be claimed by Master Mirror, and have a wish of my own granted in return, or wager my own soul and attempt to defeat him to save Olgierd's life. I chose the latter, taking pity on Olgierd despite his deplorable actions. I was forced to enter the mirror world and solve O'Dimm's riddle to defeat him. After accomplishing this difficult task, O'Dimm vanished with a scream of rage, gone for now but perhaps not forever. Olgierd's emotions and mortality immediately returned and he was overcome with remorse for what he had done. I consoled him, saying that perhaps Iris would have forgiven him for what he had done to her. He gave me his family's prized heirloom, a saber he had named "Iris" after his late wife, and walked off into the sunrise, a free and mortal man. I found the consequences to my actions and the resolution to this story to be extremely satisfying, and in line with the other 2 parts of The Witcher 3 in terms of storytelling and the realism of its moral dilemmas.
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Jan 22nd, 2017 at 20:23:14 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PS4) |
Today I played the quest "The Whispering Hillock," and the larger story quest "Ladies of the Wood" (of which The Whispering Hillock is a subquest). My larger objective in this part of the story was to find the wife and daughter of the Bloody Baron who had gone missing, in order to gain information on Ciri's whereabouts from him in exchange. This is a bit morally dubious as he is neither an honest nor a very "good" man, although he ultimately does care about his family despite driving them away and causing them pain. I learned some disturbing details about his drinking problem and marital strife, and had to help magically resolve the sinister result of an unwanted pregnancy. Specifically in the Whispering Hillock portion of the quest line, I encountered a seemingly evil spirit living inside a macabre tree on a hilltop. After talking to the tree spirit, I decided to free it rather than kill it, and had to gather a few items to do so: a woman’s remains, a raven’s feather, and a black wild horse. I already had the raven feather from Johnny's nest, and the others were easy enough to find. As a result of freeing the spirit, it helped the orphans of Crookback Bog escape and avoid being sacrificed by the three crones of the bog. The unfortunate side effect that accompanied this was that Gran (secretly the wife of the Bloody Baron) was punished by the crones for her complicity in these events.
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