"You have to get to know someone to be able to understand them." - Pascal
Almost everything has already been said about this game. So this time I'm just gonna write what it means to me:
This game marks my switch from a philosophy to cultural and social anthropology. Quite fittingly this game has numerous references to philosophers, their theories and what might be rather lacking about them. (Though some get more honest/ thorough critiques than others).
However, this game kinda poses against the mere reflection on meaning of life, what it means to be human etc. Instead it see the necessity to carve a future for oneself despite the hardships and embarrassments along the way.
Androids as well as machines (and in consequence humans) are characterized as imperfect, very divided creatures, that are full of different viewpoints, histories and the like, making a mutual understanding hard or downright impossible. Especially the final ending however makes a point of the necessity to still try. No individual can just live by themselves, people need to support each other if they want to create a better future.
And that's exactly the turn in thinking I made, when I left behind philosophies perfect theories and instead embraced to engage in real practices and histories of human culture, however imperfect they may be.
So yeah, this game means a lot to me.
P.S. other things worth mentioning:
I really love the feature of the death messages and how they evoke the idea of haikus, hastily written on the battlefield.
I don't know if they had to cut on costs on the aesthetic, but the PS3-like greys and general mudiness often hidden behind fog und made to glisten with a certain way of lighting, really gives the whole game a nice melancholy feel, that I rather enjoy.
The battle systems blend of DmC and RPG makes for something fun, but not necessarily deep as you can brute force alot of the game. Making 9S so weak in comparison to the other two makes him a bit annoying to play at times.
Why is A2 so cool?
Almost everything has already been said about this game. So this time I'm just gonna write what it means to me:
This game marks my switch from a philosophy to cultural and social anthropology. Quite fittingly this game has numerous references to philosophers, their theories and what might be rather lacking about them. (Though some get more honest/ thorough critiques than others).
However, this game kinda poses against the mere reflection on meaning of life, what it means to be human etc. Instead it see the necessity to carve a future for oneself despite the hardships and embarrassments along the way.
Androids as well as machines (and in consequence humans) are characterized as imperfect, very divided creatures, that are full of different viewpoints, histories and the like, making a mutual understanding hard or downright impossible. Especially the final ending however makes a point of the necessity to still try. No individual can just live by themselves, people need to support each other if they want to create a better future.
And that's exactly the turn in thinking I made, when I left behind philosophies perfect theories and instead embraced to engage in real practices and histories of human culture, however imperfect they may be.
So yeah, this game means a lot to me.
P.S. other things worth mentioning:
I really love the feature of the death messages and how they evoke the idea of haikus, hastily written on the battlefield.
I don't know if they had to cut on costs on the aesthetic, but the PS3-like greys and general mudiness often hidden behind fog und made to glisten with a certain way of lighting, really gives the whole game a nice melancholy feel, that I rather enjoy.
The battle systems blend of DmC and RPG makes for something fun, but not necessarily deep as you can brute force alot of the game. Making 9S so weak in comparison to the other two makes him a bit annoying to play at times.
Why is A2 so cool?