#a game about many things including a decapitated amnesiac building a REALLY interesting moral system out of whatever he found on the ground

[ganymedesclock]

I think one of my favorite things about Prisoner's character is how much his jokes (to himself, because he is isolated and voiceless in a zombie apocalypse) about having no standards betray how much he has standards.

He comments how he should have a moment of silence for a dead prisoner before interrupting his own moment claiming he has better things to do, even though he is the only person who asked, and given the spacing of the comments, does it anyway, even if he kicks the body afterward.

He has several comments about riffling through others' stuff including one that is justifying it to himself because they're all dead, even though he says it's wrong to rummage in what wasn't his, and then later a comment that you "start to like it" and it's a great way to save on money suggesting despite his obvious, consistent, and mostly unrestrained glee at finding new things, he still feels a little guilty about it.

He also gripes at one of the two wells you can find in the Promenade that he's getting tired of crawling into the darkness and the wet.

(the comments about looting are also interesting how little theft Prisoner actually commits on anything alive- you can smash the golden doors or rip off the bank- which even has an achievement for it- or deny the Collector cells by breaking the door, but you notably can't rob the nearly stationary merchants even though they appear to have no way of preventing you from doing so. the implication seems to be Prisoner just refuses to!)

#Dead Cells #a game about many things including a decapitated amnesiac building a REALLY interesting moral system out of whatever he found on the ground #also interesting is like. mushroom boi's sacrifice ability and how you can use it to get freely past Mama Tick #but the game's achievements AND the description of the Sacrificial Outfit make it really clear- #Prisoner has a /very/ guilty conscience about this #really it's just fascinating to me- a person who is usually very afraid of 'evil/mean options' in games- how Dead Cells approaches them #it becomes a very cost-benefit analysis type thing #'I couldn't do that!' but then the run goes really bad and your luck is garbage and you squint at your options #'...could I?' #or even the run goes fine but you haven't gotten anything new to happen and you know something WILL change if you do the bad thing #I like how the game uses its difficulty to herd you into just how trapped and agitated Prisoner feels #something has to change there has to be something new you can do here #there NEEDS to be a way forward! #and only after you push past that breach do you sit there going 'hm! not sure if I like the person that made me!'