It amuses me to think of how I brought up yesterday that the Analogue games were taken as palatable by the queer community despite being far darker and more violent to queer characters specifically than TLOU2 (I like them, for the record) ANYWAY >
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It just occurred to me that Analogue is like reverse TLOU, bc the first game in the series is about hate, and the second one is about love [I don't actually think Druckmann was giving a great summary of either TLOU when he said the inverse of this, but let me run with it]
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Every single official-type person talking about how "Star Wars is about family" was using the same playbook as Druckmann.
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Replying to @Arichamus
I mean, I think Druckmann was closer to rights. Both games are about love, but 2 has a bunch of hate that complicates that. All of its major story beats that matter except the first are love-based though
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Arichamus
I mean the point is that hate and love are deeply related emotions, that sometimes love requires hate
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Which reaches back to the ending of the first game Like Joel wants to play like what he did to Marlene and the Fireflies wasn't personal, so he can believe he's not a hateful person But honestly it was
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arichamus
Joel at that point had softened enough that he needed some hate to kill them all (Ellie never hardens to be able to kill without hate). (This is one reason why I dislike the pseudo retcon that Joel only killed Jerry in the OR)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Arichamus
The "alternate ending" where Joel operatically sings "DIIIIIIIIIIIEEE" while mowing down every Firefly in the room is pretty great
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It's funny that in modern times we view opera as staid and stuffy when the whole idea is it's as extra as you can get People just singing their emotions at the top of their lungs without any filter
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Lol and even though that was just goofy improv it completely fit with how an opera would've staged it It's not just one "DIE" it's an ascending arpeggio of three notes
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"DIE" *shoots Marlene* (making his choice) "DIE" *shoots Jerry* (locking in his choice so he can't take it back) "DIIIIIIIIIIIEEE" *shoots everyone else in the room* (punishing everyone else who made a different choice and emotionally committing to being the villain)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Arichamus
It's funny that that's an explicitly non-canon version of the ending, when it was also performed as part of the event that ended up becoming the canon opening to Part II
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The image of Punished Jerry is spectacularly funny.
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