I love SciFi so I'll probably eventually get it. But the idea of using robots as a parallelism of the Civil Rights Movement in the US doesn't appeal to me that much.
Maybe I shouldn't be as influenced by people in ERA that much since a lot of users have some sort of irrational hatred towards David Cage, but I'd rather wait until it's like 20-30€.
Rant incoming:
Let me tell you something. This game got a pass for how much it actually fucked up. I assume this is because the majority of journalists are white and a lot of them try not to deal with any sort of political issues in games.
What the game does is far worse than I was led to believe. It's a failure of a story at multiple levels. It does not even start by trying to meaningful attempt to convince you that the Androids are human. It simply states it and asks you to accept it. That alone devalues so much of the games narrative as if you don't, the story pretty much falls apart from hour 1.
It mirrors the "immigrants are stealing our jobs" mantra found in the real world but with Androids, except that Androids in Detroit have actually caused unemployment to go up to 40% as a result of automation. I'm supposed to feel bad for the Androids, that you've told me are human but haven't shown me, okay, I'll bite. But I'm not supposed to feel bad for some homeless guy who lost his job as a result of automation? Okay. Also just a plot point that shows up for all of 5 minutes as window dressing never to be tackled again.
Race. Oh boy. The best way to describe Detroit is a game written by white privlidged dudes trying to explain to other privlidged white dudes what racism is. Not a single moment in this game do you ever get the inkling that the writer has ever suffered an ounce of oppression in any way. At the games best, it's a collection of Wikipedia quotes used to evoke the movements without any thought to deeper meaning. In my playthrough, there was not a single moment of oppression that was an original thought. Every single one could be linked to something popular in the media. And it's just used as is. Like window dressing. At it's worst, the game sends huge conflicting messages. The game is filled with black folks yet only one has a line that references what they suffered,
and the game brushes it off immediatly. One line in my entire playthrough, that's it. It is the most hollow and fake representation of minorities in a game I've seen in a while.
Kara. She's scared of the big black Android when they first meet. But, surprise, he's actually a nice guy. He exists to serve as exposition in case you didn't understand the themes of Kara's story line, as he reiterates them a couple of times for you. He's also the strong big presence to protect Kara because otherwise, all she can do the entire game is pretty much run from danger. Ugh.
There's so much wrong with this games story that I'd be writing for ages here. And some of it I feel more qualified to write about (PoC perspective), and some of it, I'd rather a female individual write about (Kara).
Cause fuck, this game should be getting raked over the coals.
Edit: Oh I totally forgot about the shameless Holocaust stuff in the game too... cause everything else wasn't bad enough, we had to have that as well.