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Thursday 26 January, 2012
While playing this game I choose to focus on the narrative and understand the meaning behind everything. From my early experience playing the game and its ridiculousness; I did not expect for a real serious narrative emotions or anything truly thought provoking, However, i was pleasantly surprised to find great depth to the story and a reflection of our life though the game. Starting over from a new game, the introduction cinematic revels much to the play with the plot and mean, and enable the player to see things from the protagonist's perspective. As "CJ" the main protagonist returns home for his mother's funeral, subtle insight is given.
The message of how all people have feelings is uncovered just in this opening scene. As silly as this may sound, it is very significant in a reflection to our own world as we regard many others as unimportant and do not care for them. Criminals are not an acceptation to this train of thought and may even be thought less of a person, a being with no hopes, dreams, or emotions. This two is reflected within the game play as the player really has no regard for the random NPCs that walk around in this world, just a person walking down a street in our world does not seem significant and is disposable. CJ being a criminal elaborates on this thought, and again shows that they two have thoughts and plans, and hopes and aspirations. Nevertheless, the opening sequence drives into the greed and corruption of people as well.
As CJ is arrested and blackmailed, it shows a exaggeration of our own corruption. How this game brings to light all of the injustices that go on in other communities, which are unheard to us and are unimportant. Just how everything is so separated, really had a impact on myself and helped me reflect on my own actions and how they affect others. By playing the first few missions these messages are repeated, and follows the life if a gangster, and there struggles both externally and internally which do not differ all to much to anyone else's.
Over all this game is remarkable in displaying these hypocrisies within our own world and gives hope that people can change things.
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