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Snaxib's Super Columbine Massacre RPG (PC)
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| [November 30, 2008 02:31:07 PM]
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I restarted my game since I last played. I wanted to do more interaction before entering the school. This was a good choice.
Starting from the call, i walked around the beginning room wildly hitting the enter button. Nothing of interest happened in the first room. However, in the basement, there is a veritable cornucopia of possibilities. Not only the Marylin Manson CD in the corner by the stairs, but all over. By far the creepiest was the video of them testing out their bomb when they are (seemingly) a lot younger. It gave me the feeling that they were planning the attack for years before it actually happened. The scariest part about it was the joy they found at maing something with the intention of using it to kill. Joy at a working invention, regardless of its design i can understand, but if you invent it with the express pourpose of killing innocents? I can't to go that level.
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| [November 30, 2008 01:52:27 PM]
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Being the "gamer" type, i tend to try not to judge a game by its title. However Super Columbine Massacre RPG!(SCMRPG)is a hard name to get around. Not only is it long, but it is, on the surface extremely irreverent.
I do not have a very personal connection to the Columbine tragedy. I was in grade school and generally didn't care about the news. I remember heaing about it by proxy, mostly though other people, but it never really touched me. I was simply too young and too removed from the situation to really care.
So, along comes this game, SCMRPG!, and a lot of people have a problem with "reenacting" (with liberties) the events of the columbine massacre. Also, the game makes the situation extremely personal. I did feel a bit uncomfortable because I wasn't playing a game that detached me from the characters, I was playing a game the did just the opposite. This was strange for me because usually I feel a distance between my self and the game, a healthy separation. This game started to blur that line.
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