Thursday 29 March, 2018

For this play through I continued with Team C to see if the choices I made affected the story at all. I chose the next fragment at random, it began with Akane and Carlos waking up locked inside the pantry. Akane has a heart to heart with Carlos about how much she appreciates Junpei, who coincidentally is missing. After Akane and Carlos find their way out of the pantry they find Junpei's decapitated head. It's also announced that everyone in D team is also dead. After they get over the initial shock of it Carlos and Akane accuse each other of killing Junpei. They player is forced to choose who killed Junpei despite the game not giving any solid evidence for either of them doing it. I chose Akane. Carlos and Akane then go at each other which results in Akane dying and Carlos suffering massive injuries.
The game's story is so non-linear and confusing that I want to keep coming back to it even though it's leaving me with more questions than I initially have. I also find that having the player make uninformed decisions that result in people dying is much less emotionally effective than making them have to make those choices in full consciousness.

Good job! You mentioned in your earlier gamelog that the game was making you question your morals? That's a good sign that the game developers have put ethics you don't agree with and knowing that might help you develop you essay. For instance, is there a reason the game developers had you make uninformed decisions with huge consequences? Are they asking you to make decisions from a social contract or Kant framework?