Always Sometimes Monsters is a rpg-style choose-your-own-story pixelated indie-game. It handles many topics and incredibly polarizing situations, both in attempt to show choice-vs-consequence scenarios along with adapting and molding to the player’s personal moral state.
I decided to watch a walkthrough of the game by Cryatoic because, it was a pixel game and the sprites weren’t the typical anime tsunami with the typical anime storyline. It was set in America with many realistic characters. Most of any characters that looked odd had personalities that matched with that, and those who did not were relatively normal, if cruel at times.
Overall I cannot fault the game on all points because I do like what it did. It doesn’t force you into situations but it makes sure you have to sit through the result of any wrong choices you make and I never felt like the morality the game believed in was controversial to my own.
On the other hand of course the game is consumed with profanities, gross imagery, and does not shy away from literally SHOWING you terrible disgusting pictures and the like. It lets you go into Strip-Houses and pay for people to dance for you (though it is all pixelated outside of dialogue models which while revealing don’t go farther than that of a bikini). I remember one screenshot I found after watching the game actually showing a couple in the act of sex, pixelated or not, and that was simply awful. It must have been optional as I did not see it when watching Cryaotic’s playthrough.
I CAN understand why they did all this. They want this to be as realistic and tough as the real world would be, and having people cuss, having strip-malls, and many other horrible things, are perfectly logical. These things exist. I have to listen to profanities all the time at college, and a strip-club is placed near an old assembly job of mine.
However that doesn’t excuse that I had to see these things. It was my choice obviously, and I did not get out with many scars, but the only thing I could imagine being hard to work around without being “silly” would be the cussing. Still, this is the modern world so it’s expected of these things.
At the end of the day it was well-constructed in most areas, and I don’t regret that I understand how it went. In fact this wouldn’t be here if my only topics were that of the above but unfortunately I took worry towards Cry’s decisions in many areas, and overall morality.
As I said before, you choose your own story. Your character is a blonde woman who you get to name (Cry named her Bluntilda). You also get to name her eventual Ex-Boyfriend, (Will Powers) and the story begins. In present-time, Bluntilda is nearly broke because she lacks the motivation to finish a book for her publishers, and has gone into bankruptcy because of it. Not only that, but Will Powers is getting married to another woman after their breakup, and Bluntilda has been invited. With no money on hand, and situational transportation, you as Bluntilda have to find means to acquire funds and go through various mini-adventures in order to make your way to the wedding for whatever reason you choose.
Cry decided he wanted to do it to win Will Powers back, and thus our story begins. I won’t be going over everything he does; only specifics that I think are appropriate. If I feel like I need to give backstory to some characters, I will, and there are many VERY 3-Dimensional characters in this game that I did appreciate for not being simply one-note.
Now first off I’m going over an event that happens pretty late in the game concerning a character named Markansas (actual name simply Mark). Mark was a friend of Bluntilda’s parents and knew he when she was very young. He’s a cowboy and a Pastor (I believe he’s Catholic though it wasn’t mentioned specifically) and he’s the final drive to bring your character to the wedding. He’s probably the nicest of the characters, outside of an old lady you meet at the beginning, but he asks at one point what Bluntilda believes in.
There are four options, three of which being God, nothing, or yourself. Cry chose himself. The reasoning for this was that at the end of the day you can always rely on yourself even if you can’t rely on anything, or anyone, else.
Cry then went on to mention how there’s a difference between knowing something will help, and believing it will help without proof. He made the comparison of praying for someone to be healed as opposed to using medicine to actually save them. The reason I don’t immediately give a rebuttal for these things is because there are many other things to go through and I feel it will be more… potent if we wait until then.
Larry, Bluntilda’s publisher, decides to help her get to the wedding even though he’s in trouble because of her, and in incredibly debt himself. He’s definitely bitter, and will take shots at Bluntilda for what she’s done, but he is still willing to pay you, get you jobs, talk with you casually, spend a sunrise with you, and even let you sleep in his house when you have no place to go.
In return he has you write a journal of all your events so that he can eventually turn THAT into a book to get some money back. Normally I would be saying no way to this, but the character Bluntilda is fine with it so it doesn’t really become a problem overall.
At one point of the game, Larry says that he’s getting a divorce from his wife, Belinda. Belinda is a very rich-stuck-up woman, but she’s also apologetic. She flies off the handle easily, but it’s mostly because of the strain of falling out of love with Larry, as well as their money problems. She’s a jerk most of the time, but can be decent and doesn’t hold a grudge against things the character does. Larry admits that he loves her very much, but that she’s been spoiled by his money.
When this news is told to Bluntilda, there are two choices on how to reply; “I’m sorry” or “Congratulations”. Cry intended to say congratulations, but ended up saying sorry by mistake. He wanted to congratulate him on getting a divorce.
In the section of the game with Markansas, you find the Strip-Club, and as I said before, you are able to go in, see dancing, see models of skanky women, (one of which is apparently YOUNG) and pay for them to dance for you. Cry decides to do this, giddily in fact. He does not choose the youngest girl thankfully but let me note that there wasn’t any implications that the character, Bluntilda, was bisexual, and yet she ends up watching girls do the sexy dance for her. If these endings seem abrupt that is because I am letting you think over what this could mean. Moving on.
Also in the Markansas area of the game, Mark’s means to get you to the wedding, a car, is being held by a guy who won it in a racing bet. In order to get it back, they have to beat him in a race. Mark’s girlfriend is worried for you and Mark, and suggests that they cut the car-holder’s breaks. Cry, knowing that it’s very possibly going to kill the man, decides to do the deed anyway. His reasoning for this is that he believed he had made mostly good-guy choices this whole time, and that he needed to escape for a moment; literally meaning that he did something bad for the sake of it because he was tired of being the good guy.
On the day of the race, the car-holder goes first for a race of best time. His children are there to cheer him on. He dies. Soon after Cry goes to the strip-club.
Very close to the day of the wedding, Casey, Will Powers’ adopted father, finds Bluntilda’s journal where all of her events are recorded (except for one day Cry accidentally did not record). When Bluntilda finds out, she is upset. Casey tells Bluntilda that he wants Will Powers to be happy, and to know what she plans to do, and if she feels she is worthy of Will Powers.
He begins going over all the acts she had done, the ones that were not morally correct, and each time he asks her if she feels justified by what she did. For the most part, Cry was upset by all the nagging, mocking Casey himself by calling him “Daaaaad”, obviously referencing the moral hammering he was getting. He admitted to saying what Casey wanted to hear to get Casey off his back.
Immediately after, Casey wants to know if with all of this, Bluntilda deserves Will Powers. Cry says yes. The reason Bluntilda gives for this is that if she wasn’t dedicated to Will Powers, and didn’t deserve him, she wouldn’t have come all this way, and done all those things to get here for him.
We find out that Bluntilda was invited to the wedding by the bride, who wanted Bluntilda there as they were good friends. I will get into that eventually. During the pre-wedding party, they all go to a Casino. The bride overspends (most-likely while drunk and unaware) and the owners of the Casino plan to kill her over the lost money (which is quite overdramatic). The bride tries to steal Bluntilda’s journal to get some money from Larry so that she can pay them back and not die.
Eventually Bluntilda is made a part of this and has three options. She can pay the Casino herself, let the bride die, or let the bride take the journal and live, but have her own career ruined. Cry had a lot of money from boxing at this point, and paid for it. When given the opportunity to say who he’s doing it for, he chooses saying it is for Will Powers over the bride.
This is the big part here; the wedding. Bluntilda stops the wedding, objecting to it completely and saying that she loves Will Powers, needs Will Powers, and that if Will Powers has any doubt about the wedding to come back to her. Will Powers agrees, the bride knocks Bluntilda unconscious before running off, and the wedding is ruined.
Bluntilda and Will Powers get together, and using the journal they are able to make tons of money and be happy…
… Let’s talk about Sam. Sam is a college friend of Bluntilda’s. I can’t recall how long they were friends before that, but they’ve been best buds up until Sam got the hots for Will Powers, who they met at college. Sam tries to make a move, but every time Bluntilda is around, Will Powers’ attention turns to her instead.
Sam and Will Powers go to a hill to look for a comet together, and Bluntilda is asked by Sam to not come so that she can make the moves on Will Powers. Bluntilda is fine with this as she wants her friend to be happy, but Will Powers eventually tells Bluntilda that he likes her, not Sam, and Bluntilda is forced to tell Sam this in the middle of the comet-searching. Sam storms off angrily, and Bluntilda is left with Will Powers where they have a romantic evening.
From this sparks a long happy relationship with Bluntilda and Will Powers, with Sam still being a close friend. Bluntilda is contacted by Larry and told that a contract the three of them (Sam, Larry, and Bluntilda) were working on to get them published writers, is a go, but that the publishers themselves do not want Sam involved. Bluntilda chooses herself over Sam, leaving Sam behind as she gets off with her career.
Eventually we have the point where Bluntilda and Will break up. This can be influenced by the player. Cry decides that it’s Bluntilda that breaks up with Will because she’s scared of being rejected by him, as she feels lesser and that he will eventually reject her. Will fights for her, but eventually storms out when realizing he can’t change her mind.
After this, Bluntilda starts faltering in her in her responsibilities to Larry and we are at the present time. We go through the many trials and end up at the wedding. The bride is Sam. Sam invited Bluntilda because they were best friends, and even after Bluntilda doing such a terrible thing to Sam, Sam still wanted her there not to spite her, but because she wanted to spend time with her best friend.
Later we find out that Sam’s life has gone to shambles, and that she wants to die. Cry chooses to let her live in the scenario where this occurs, but we don’t know what happens after that. Cry decides this is all poor writing that Sam would be so upset and go off the deep end simply because of a guy.
… Let’s begin. First we have the matter of the faith. Cry’s comparison is simply a fallacy. Faith is something that does not require a lack of action. Faith does not require you to do nothing when there is a problem. Praying for a solution means there is a solution, and putting aside that not all solutions are the ones you want, sometimes YOU are the solution.
In other words, if you know something to be true, there isn’t a question about it. If it is fact, it is fact. This does not apply to that. This applies to belief in things we do not know to be true, and that does include many topics people do not want to admit are not true. In this case, believing in God as opposed to BELIEVING in… humanity.
Bluntilda (Cry) decided to put trust in herself and these are the results. She believed that she could rely on herself and we have all of these problems.
She caused…
~The death of a father
~the life of a bride ruined
~The cheating of her friend
~The heart-break of a man
… and a rigged-election that I did not include in the blame-game here mainly because while he should not have gotten involved, he did do it for a cause he thought was right. However this turned out wrong and all because he put his faith in humanity in this situation.
Bluntilda could not rely on herself, unless you mean to get ahead of the curb and push others down. That IS what she did. She killed the man so that she could get to the wedding, rigged the election so that a bus-station would start up again for her, and ruined a wedding so she could be with a man she loved.
He knew that the man would die, and he let him die, and then went to a strip-club after giddily.
He attempted to congratulate a divorce, instead of do whatever he could to share condolences. Marriage is forever, and if it is failing, the point is to salvage it and do one’s best to fix it. Larry and Belinda were in a very good spot for that. With funds failing they were cut off from money, the source of their bad marriage, and could start to rekindle, but that failed.
And Sam…
Let me explain why Sam was ruined in order of how it happened
~Her best friend ruined a first date
~Her best friend stole the boy she was into
~Her best friend left her in the dust to further her own career because…
~Publishers considered her a bad writer
~Her best friend chose to help her in a LIFE-OR-DEATH SITUATION for the BOY and NOT Sam
~Her best friend, whom she invited to share a happy day, ruined her wedding when things had finally gotten back on track
~The man who was going to marry her rejected her at the altar.
Still not convinced? Alright.
When Bluntilda and Will Powers broke apart, Bluntilda went downhill. She was hurting and that killed her creativity. Who’s to say the same problem didn’t end up happening for Sam? Her own life went downhill financially after that. Let me remind people that it’s the BRIDE’s family that pays for the wedding. Do you really think all that money WASTED on hundreds of things, including a HOUSE, was going to be waiting for her? Do you think you could have finished writing a book shortly after when that kind of trauma was around you? Regardless of who everyone is, Sam was not an incredibly stable person. She was shy, and emotional. She was not going to handle this well.
I fail to see how it is the game’s fault that Cry made the decision to throw someone’s life into the shredder. His acts put Bluntilda on top, with a man who is probably just as awful as she is, and shoved others down.
There were many other instances where Bluntilda would do things simply because Cry said “F*** it”. I’ll list four.
~A homeless man gives Bluntilda an action figure toy thing that’s part of a collection. He asks her to keep it but she pawns it off. When he asks for it back, saying that he could use it to get a house with the rest of the collection sold to a guy for a bunch of money, she is unable to do that.
~A friend of Bluntilda’s, a Rockstar, is going into rehab with his girlfriend. Bluntilda helps them and the Rockstar gives her his guitar as a gift, and specifically asks her not to pawn it off. Cry pawns it off and when he asks about it, he’s met with a sad truth.
~A kid in a city that isn’t doing so well funds-wise, helps Bluntilda with good fishing spots. All that he asks is that she give him a lake crab to eat, and not to take all the fish so that he can also eat later in the day along with his family. Every day while there, Cry takes all the fish. We don’t see if this has a negative effect on the child but it’s quite possible.
~Once again with the strip-club, someone has just died, and Cry needs to get to the wedding. Instead of saving his money, he spends it on a strip-club.
Humanity; choosing on instinct and testosterone. These choices were not reliable because they all had a negative consequence. He put faith in his ability and this is what happened. Who does Cry blame at the end of the day? The game, for having a “bad story”.
I don’t hate this game, or even dislike it if I’m being honest. I don’t want to look at many parts of it, but it does a very good job at what it sets out to do. I do not like it morally in what it shows and does to get it’s points across, but it DOES get its points across regardless, and with those I don’t hold much anger.
I don’t hate Cry either, and I’ll probably watch some of his other videos from time to time, as I have in the past, but this was simply a case where what he chose to believe in did terrible things, not for him. He got the happy ending. Everything went well for him, but he hurt EVERYONE else one way or another. Whether or not that is something unavoidable in the game, it is further proof that humanity is not Faith-worthy.
Before I go, I must condone the game on how it handled religious aspects. While I do NOT condone the Catholic Faith, Mark acted almost completely Christian-like (potty-mouth aside. He is a cowboy after all.) and I never felt like his advice or dialogue bordered on stereotypical or offensive, at least that I remember.
I hope this is all somewhat of an eye-opener. I know it was just a game, but many of these decisions were the cause of a real-person’s choice, that had very realistic consequences.
Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.
God Bless,
Eat Pie and Prosper
I decided to watch a walkthrough of the game by Cryatoic because, it was a pixel game and the sprites weren’t the typical anime tsunami with the typical anime storyline. It was set in America with many realistic characters. Most of any characters that looked odd had personalities that matched with that, and those who did not were relatively normal, if cruel at times.
Overall I cannot fault the game on all points because I do like what it did. It doesn’t force you into situations but it makes sure you have to sit through the result of any wrong choices you make and I never felt like the morality the game believed in was controversial to my own.
On the other hand of course the game is consumed with profanities, gross imagery, and does not shy away from literally SHOWING you terrible disgusting pictures and the like. It lets you go into Strip-Houses and pay for people to dance for you (though it is all pixelated outside of dialogue models which while revealing don’t go farther than that of a bikini). I remember one screenshot I found after watching the game actually showing a couple in the act of sex, pixelated or not, and that was simply awful. It must have been optional as I did not see it when watching Cryaotic’s playthrough.
I CAN understand why they did all this. They want this to be as realistic and tough as the real world would be, and having people cuss, having strip-malls, and many other horrible things, are perfectly logical. These things exist. I have to listen to profanities all the time at college, and a strip-club is placed near an old assembly job of mine.
However that doesn’t excuse that I had to see these things. It was my choice obviously, and I did not get out with many scars, but the only thing I could imagine being hard to work around without being “silly” would be the cussing. Still, this is the modern world so it’s expected of these things.
At the end of the day it was well-constructed in most areas, and I don’t regret that I understand how it went. In fact this wouldn’t be here if my only topics were that of the above but unfortunately I took worry towards Cry’s decisions in many areas, and overall morality.
As I said before, you choose your own story. Your character is a blonde woman who you get to name (Cry named her Bluntilda). You also get to name her eventual Ex-Boyfriend, (Will Powers) and the story begins. In present-time, Bluntilda is nearly broke because she lacks the motivation to finish a book for her publishers, and has gone into bankruptcy because of it. Not only that, but Will Powers is getting married to another woman after their breakup, and Bluntilda has been invited. With no money on hand, and situational transportation, you as Bluntilda have to find means to acquire funds and go through various mini-adventures in order to make your way to the wedding for whatever reason you choose.
Cry decided he wanted to do it to win Will Powers back, and thus our story begins. I won’t be going over everything he does; only specifics that I think are appropriate. If I feel like I need to give backstory to some characters, I will, and there are many VERY 3-Dimensional characters in this game that I did appreciate for not being simply one-note.
Now first off I’m going over an event that happens pretty late in the game concerning a character named Markansas (actual name simply Mark). Mark was a friend of Bluntilda’s parents and knew he when she was very young. He’s a cowboy and a Pastor (I believe he’s Catholic though it wasn’t mentioned specifically) and he’s the final drive to bring your character to the wedding. He’s probably the nicest of the characters, outside of an old lady you meet at the beginning, but he asks at one point what Bluntilda believes in.
There are four options, three of which being God, nothing, or yourself. Cry chose himself. The reasoning for this was that at the end of the day you can always rely on yourself even if you can’t rely on anything, or anyone, else.
Cry then went on to mention how there’s a difference between knowing something will help, and believing it will help without proof. He made the comparison of praying for someone to be healed as opposed to using medicine to actually save them. The reason I don’t immediately give a rebuttal for these things is because there are many other things to go through and I feel it will be more… potent if we wait until then.
Larry, Bluntilda’s publisher, decides to help her get to the wedding even though he’s in trouble because of her, and in incredibly debt himself. He’s definitely bitter, and will take shots at Bluntilda for what she’s done, but he is still willing to pay you, get you jobs, talk with you casually, spend a sunrise with you, and even let you sleep in his house when you have no place to go.
In return he has you write a journal of all your events so that he can eventually turn THAT into a book to get some money back. Normally I would be saying no way to this, but the character Bluntilda is fine with it so it doesn’t really become a problem overall.
At one point of the game, Larry says that he’s getting a divorce from his wife, Belinda. Belinda is a very rich-stuck-up woman, but she’s also apologetic. She flies off the handle easily, but it’s mostly because of the strain of falling out of love with Larry, as well as their money problems. She’s a jerk most of the time, but can be decent and doesn’t hold a grudge against things the character does. Larry admits that he loves her very much, but that she’s been spoiled by his money.
When this news is told to Bluntilda, there are two choices on how to reply; “I’m sorry” or “Congratulations”. Cry intended to say congratulations, but ended up saying sorry by mistake. He wanted to congratulate him on getting a divorce.
In the section of the game with Markansas, you find the Strip-Club, and as I said before, you are able to go in, see dancing, see models of skanky women, (one of which is apparently YOUNG) and pay for them to dance for you. Cry decides to do this, giddily in fact. He does not choose the youngest girl thankfully but let me note that there wasn’t any implications that the character, Bluntilda, was bisexual, and yet she ends up watching girls do the sexy dance for her. If these endings seem abrupt that is because I am letting you think over what this could mean. Moving on.
Also in the Markansas area of the game, Mark’s means to get you to the wedding, a car, is being held by a guy who won it in a racing bet. In order to get it back, they have to beat him in a race. Mark’s girlfriend is worried for you and Mark, and suggests that they cut the car-holder’s breaks. Cry, knowing that it’s very possibly going to kill the man, decides to do the deed anyway. His reasoning for this is that he believed he had made mostly good-guy choices this whole time, and that he needed to escape for a moment; literally meaning that he did something bad for the sake of it because he was tired of being the good guy.
On the day of the race, the car-holder goes first for a race of best time. His children are there to cheer him on. He dies. Soon after Cry goes to the strip-club.
Very close to the day of the wedding, Casey, Will Powers’ adopted father, finds Bluntilda’s journal where all of her events are recorded (except for one day Cry accidentally did not record). When Bluntilda finds out, she is upset. Casey tells Bluntilda that he wants Will Powers to be happy, and to know what she plans to do, and if she feels she is worthy of Will Powers.
He begins going over all the acts she had done, the ones that were not morally correct, and each time he asks her if she feels justified by what she did. For the most part, Cry was upset by all the nagging, mocking Casey himself by calling him “Daaaaad”, obviously referencing the moral hammering he was getting. He admitted to saying what Casey wanted to hear to get Casey off his back.
Immediately after, Casey wants to know if with all of this, Bluntilda deserves Will Powers. Cry says yes. The reason Bluntilda gives for this is that if she wasn’t dedicated to Will Powers, and didn’t deserve him, she wouldn’t have come all this way, and done all those things to get here for him.
We find out that Bluntilda was invited to the wedding by the bride, who wanted Bluntilda there as they were good friends. I will get into that eventually. During the pre-wedding party, they all go to a Casino. The bride overspends (most-likely while drunk and unaware) and the owners of the Casino plan to kill her over the lost money (which is quite overdramatic). The bride tries to steal Bluntilda’s journal to get some money from Larry so that she can pay them back and not die.
Eventually Bluntilda is made a part of this and has three options. She can pay the Casino herself, let the bride die, or let the bride take the journal and live, but have her own career ruined. Cry had a lot of money from boxing at this point, and paid for it. When given the opportunity to say who he’s doing it for, he chooses saying it is for Will Powers over the bride.
This is the big part here; the wedding. Bluntilda stops the wedding, objecting to it completely and saying that she loves Will Powers, needs Will Powers, and that if Will Powers has any doubt about the wedding to come back to her. Will Powers agrees, the bride knocks Bluntilda unconscious before running off, and the wedding is ruined.
Bluntilda and Will Powers get together, and using the journal they are able to make tons of money and be happy…
… Let’s talk about Sam. Sam is a college friend of Bluntilda’s. I can’t recall how long they were friends before that, but they’ve been best buds up until Sam got the hots for Will Powers, who they met at college. Sam tries to make a move, but every time Bluntilda is around, Will Powers’ attention turns to her instead.
Sam and Will Powers go to a hill to look for a comet together, and Bluntilda is asked by Sam to not come so that she can make the moves on Will Powers. Bluntilda is fine with this as she wants her friend to be happy, but Will Powers eventually tells Bluntilda that he likes her, not Sam, and Bluntilda is forced to tell Sam this in the middle of the comet-searching. Sam storms off angrily, and Bluntilda is left with Will Powers where they have a romantic evening.
From this sparks a long happy relationship with Bluntilda and Will Powers, with Sam still being a close friend. Bluntilda is contacted by Larry and told that a contract the three of them (Sam, Larry, and Bluntilda) were working on to get them published writers, is a go, but that the publishers themselves do not want Sam involved. Bluntilda chooses herself over Sam, leaving Sam behind as she gets off with her career.
Eventually we have the point where Bluntilda and Will break up. This can be influenced by the player. Cry decides that it’s Bluntilda that breaks up with Will because she’s scared of being rejected by him, as she feels lesser and that he will eventually reject her. Will fights for her, but eventually storms out when realizing he can’t change her mind.
After this, Bluntilda starts faltering in her in her responsibilities to Larry and we are at the present time. We go through the many trials and end up at the wedding. The bride is Sam. Sam invited Bluntilda because they were best friends, and even after Bluntilda doing such a terrible thing to Sam, Sam still wanted her there not to spite her, but because she wanted to spend time with her best friend.
Later we find out that Sam’s life has gone to shambles, and that she wants to die. Cry chooses to let her live in the scenario where this occurs, but we don’t know what happens after that. Cry decides this is all poor writing that Sam would be so upset and go off the deep end simply because of a guy.
… Let’s begin. First we have the matter of the faith. Cry’s comparison is simply a fallacy. Faith is something that does not require a lack of action. Faith does not require you to do nothing when there is a problem. Praying for a solution means there is a solution, and putting aside that not all solutions are the ones you want, sometimes YOU are the solution.
In other words, if you know something to be true, there isn’t a question about it. If it is fact, it is fact. This does not apply to that. This applies to belief in things we do not know to be true, and that does include many topics people do not want to admit are not true. In this case, believing in God as opposed to BELIEVING in… humanity.
Bluntilda (Cry) decided to put trust in herself and these are the results. She believed that she could rely on herself and we have all of these problems.
She caused…
~The death of a father
~the life of a bride ruined
~The cheating of her friend
~The heart-break of a man
… and a rigged-election that I did not include in the blame-game here mainly because while he should not have gotten involved, he did do it for a cause he thought was right. However this turned out wrong and all because he put his faith in humanity in this situation.
Bluntilda could not rely on herself, unless you mean to get ahead of the curb and push others down. That IS what she did. She killed the man so that she could get to the wedding, rigged the election so that a bus-station would start up again for her, and ruined a wedding so she could be with a man she loved.
He knew that the man would die, and he let him die, and then went to a strip-club after giddily.
He attempted to congratulate a divorce, instead of do whatever he could to share condolences. Marriage is forever, and if it is failing, the point is to salvage it and do one’s best to fix it. Larry and Belinda were in a very good spot for that. With funds failing they were cut off from money, the source of their bad marriage, and could start to rekindle, but that failed.
And Sam…
Let me explain why Sam was ruined in order of how it happened
~Her best friend ruined a first date
~Her best friend stole the boy she was into
~Her best friend left her in the dust to further her own career because…
~Publishers considered her a bad writer
~Her best friend chose to help her in a LIFE-OR-DEATH SITUATION for the BOY and NOT Sam
~Her best friend, whom she invited to share a happy day, ruined her wedding when things had finally gotten back on track
~The man who was going to marry her rejected her at the altar.
Still not convinced? Alright.
When Bluntilda and Will Powers broke apart, Bluntilda went downhill. She was hurting and that killed her creativity. Who’s to say the same problem didn’t end up happening for Sam? Her own life went downhill financially after that. Let me remind people that it’s the BRIDE’s family that pays for the wedding. Do you really think all that money WASTED on hundreds of things, including a HOUSE, was going to be waiting for her? Do you think you could have finished writing a book shortly after when that kind of trauma was around you? Regardless of who everyone is, Sam was not an incredibly stable person. She was shy, and emotional. She was not going to handle this well.
I fail to see how it is the game’s fault that Cry made the decision to throw someone’s life into the shredder. His acts put Bluntilda on top, with a man who is probably just as awful as she is, and shoved others down.
There were many other instances where Bluntilda would do things simply because Cry said “F*** it”. I’ll list four.
~A homeless man gives Bluntilda an action figure toy thing that’s part of a collection. He asks her to keep it but she pawns it off. When he asks for it back, saying that he could use it to get a house with the rest of the collection sold to a guy for a bunch of money, she is unable to do that.
~A friend of Bluntilda’s, a Rockstar, is going into rehab with his girlfriend. Bluntilda helps them and the Rockstar gives her his guitar as a gift, and specifically asks her not to pawn it off. Cry pawns it off and when he asks about it, he’s met with a sad truth.
~A kid in a city that isn’t doing so well funds-wise, helps Bluntilda with good fishing spots. All that he asks is that she give him a lake crab to eat, and not to take all the fish so that he can also eat later in the day along with his family. Every day while there, Cry takes all the fish. We don’t see if this has a negative effect on the child but it’s quite possible.
~Once again with the strip-club, someone has just died, and Cry needs to get to the wedding. Instead of saving his money, he spends it on a strip-club.
Humanity; choosing on instinct and testosterone. These choices were not reliable because they all had a negative consequence. He put faith in his ability and this is what happened. Who does Cry blame at the end of the day? The game, for having a “bad story”.
I don’t hate this game, or even dislike it if I’m being honest. I don’t want to look at many parts of it, but it does a very good job at what it sets out to do. I do not like it morally in what it shows and does to get it’s points across, but it DOES get its points across regardless, and with those I don’t hold much anger.
I don’t hate Cry either, and I’ll probably watch some of his other videos from time to time, as I have in the past, but this was simply a case where what he chose to believe in did terrible things, not for him. He got the happy ending. Everything went well for him, but he hurt EVERYONE else one way or another. Whether or not that is something unavoidable in the game, it is further proof that humanity is not Faith-worthy.
Before I go, I must condone the game on how it handled religious aspects. While I do NOT condone the Catholic Faith, Mark acted almost completely Christian-like (potty-mouth aside. He is a cowboy after all.) and I never felt like his advice or dialogue bordered on stereotypical or offensive, at least that I remember.
I hope this is all somewhat of an eye-opener. I know it was just a game, but many of these decisions were the cause of a real-person’s choice, that had very realistic consequences.
Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.
God Bless,
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