Re:The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that ne...
by VladTheImplier on Sunday August 26, 2018 @07:27AM
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It's a genre that keeps fascinating people who like that genre - what possibly twisted mind could do such horrible things? It's indeed an often taken and explored trope of fiction, certainly not for everyone.
Also all of the Mafia themes: So many of the media on that hides the gruesome reality of recruiting people out of poverty to push them into a never ending circle of violence, with notorious killers that tortured their victims in much fashion like jack the ripper. (Think Richard Kuklinski, whose death count is without a doubt much higher than Jack The Ripper)
And yet many of the fictional books, series and games portrait the Mafia as being about honour, family and pride.
It's a fictional world that if made well enough is interesting to explore.
Probably that game wouldn't have been for me either as I despise torture porn akin to saw. But that doesn't mean, that this sort of fiction is inherently bad. Tasteless for sure, yet in a genre of a grotesque deep dive into a parallel universe where the gruesome and grotesque is justified by a mysterious, higher cause.
Deciding that people who cut up women are in fact pretty fascinating and charismatic dudes "who had their reasons" is not exactly a new, intriguing setting to explore, unless you're a sophomoric ghoul.
In the media we are drowning in handsome genius-level IQ serial killers, as opposed to the sordid idiots that they are in real life. Thanks, no. There are a lot of thought experiments we could do; strangely, we seem to constantly come back to this one.