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Sarenna's This is the Police (Switch)
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| [September 27, 2018 08:08:30 PM]
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The game has quite a bit of content to go through to reach the end. I got the impression of just going through the same motions in answering calls with a few upgrades in the form of labor slots, pay raise, and others feels more like filler for the game then being a game that is trying to improve on what it has set up in the beginning. The investigations in the game do increase in complexity to give the impression of approaching more challenges as your days increase but unfortunately still reads as moderate flow. The story of Jack's struggles with his life seems to try and get the audiences attention with empathy, but I personally do not really feel deep connection to Jack as his character does not really resonate with me and he comes off as very rude to everyone around him. His circumstances can be stressful to be a consequence for his behavior though. The game handles many political, legal, and moral situations and the player's own morals about the law and politics can influence decisions. The game makes a point to manage your staff well because not responding to a call when all officers are out on the field lead to bad consequences like civilians dying and sometimes officers on the field die which feels awful. The calls can range from homicide, rape, abduction, domestic violence, theft, misdemeanors, and false alarms. What is interesting is that everything being called breaks the law in some way, but it does not make a statement about separating morals from law as the mafia situation is helping criminals break the law without legal consequences. Also the game has situations like those in power can determine to cut your budget or cut your staff slots because you failed on jobs or did not be a corrupt official for them in taking the blame. If anything there should be an increase for more staff if we do not have enough to respond to all calls. If I am going to make the case where this is the police is using morals and law interchangeably I am going to have to do further research as a lot of the game is repetitive in core gameplay.
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| [September 26, 2018 08:40:01 PM]
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This is the police reminds me a little of the game Paper Please as your continuing to balance many calls of the city and dealing with consequences like cutting down staff, taking the blame in the light of the media reporting on you and gaining and loosing money. However, how you gain the money can be under abuse of power, being corrupt official, or following the law and revealing the corruption of the higher ups. The involvement of doing mafia jobs certainly calls into question if being unlawful is equivalent to being moral. A rather early choice is to supposedly save your friend and his family from being murdered from the mafia, but consequently if you do the mafia is now active in your life as many mafia tasks will come up from now on, but you can still chose to do them or not. Another part of the game is the narrative story of the main cop and his life being affected by certain choices the player makes. This game is certainly bringing into context between what is moral and what is the law because ethically they are not the same.Another interesting point in the game is you want more professional staff however you may not have the grounds to fire them legally which means you can still choose to do so or strategically hire older staff and wait for when the labor market has more professional cops available, but is that necessarily the right thing to do? Also just because it is illegal to fire someone without legal reasons is it morally wrong to do so?
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| [September 25, 2018 07:40:09 PM]
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I started up the game and was greeted to a comic style narrative. I already enjoy the voice acting for the characters. Once you got a bit of the story the game gives you a press conference with multiple options to respond to the reporters questions. I realize that what I choose to say may affect my gameplay so I already thinking logical and ethical ways to respond and what the consequences could be. Afterwards I begin playing the core gameplay where I send officers to do jobs around town, I am faced with mafia affiliation, and city hall wanted me to fire black officers due to city tensions I of course can choose to participate or not. There are already a lot of hard choices to make when you are given power. I can choose to abuse it or not. My first play run of the game really emphasized racism as with city hall wanting me to fire officers and in the beginning where the mayor is described with white shoes, white polo and white other clothes in a harsh describing tone as if the outfit meant something much harsher. I look forward to seeing how the story plays out with my next play through.
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Sarenna's This is the Police (Switch)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 25 September, 2018
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