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Tuesday 23 February, 2010
So I decided to try playing the game without killing any students or blowing anything up or doing any other real damage. Thankfully, I had a save point from right before the bombs *don't* go off, so I didn't have to replay too much.
As it was my second time through many of the dialog scenes, I decided to pay closer attention to their grievances than I did during my first run. To be honest, after doing so, my opinion of them (or the characters being portrayed as them) fell even lower. Their reasons were little more than those of the stereotypical white, male teenager: they don't want to be told what to do, they support natural selection, they hate all things "routine", and just generally want to "get off this sick f***ing planet [they] hate so much". I find the natural selection comment interesting, because I also know that they hated being picked on: the physically "superior" jocks attacking who they considered to be "inferior".
Regardless, I managed to sneak through the corridors much more easily than I expected. I only needed to restart twice before finally making it to the library and the end of their rampage without killing anyone or really even doing any property damage (well, they'll have to wash that carpet...)
So, hopeful that the game would recognize my blasphemy against its system and react, I sat through the slideshow... and ended up in Hell anyway, playing as Dylan again. Except, as expected, I was level 1 this time surrounded by high level demons.
Determined to push onwards despite the clear protest of the game's system (which demands that you kill as many students as possible to level up before Hell), I pulled out my favorite memory editor and h4x0r'd the game, giving myself infinite health and ammo.
Was it unethical of me to resist the game to the point of tampering with it? I don't think so. I tampered with it in the hopes of being able to finish the game (alterations without which, other demands on my time would have prevented me from doing so), and so my ultimate goal was only to hear the rest of the author's message.
Of course, I said "in the hopes of"--not long after implementing my hacks and proudly beating down some demon soldiers, an Imp 1-hit KO's me, a situation my infinite health couldn't protect against.
Oh well, maybe next time.
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