A story about a guy who is sad because dead wife is NOT WOKE, neither is one about a dad who wants to save his kid, okay???
Heather doesn’t count because SH3 came out before games had politics which only began happening some time around 2014 or alternatively, before these people were born
story about a guy who is sad because dead wife is NOT WOKE, neither is one about a dad who wants to save his kid
(not having played the game myself) I would argue that characters that only exist to give depth to the protagonist aren’t strong arguments for woke, though my understanding was that Silent Hill was nearly explicitly about misogyny
I think that’s kind of flattening the plot of Silent Hill 2, since the whole game is about their relationship. If there is a second character (because it is a little solipsistic), it’s the dead wife and not any of the living NPCs encountered along the way, and if there’s a third character, it’s the woman who is a representation of his fucked-up conception of his wife, i.e. the third character is also still just the first two characters.
A story about a guy who is sad because dead wife is NOT WOKE, neither is one about a dad who wants to save his kid, okay???
Heather doesn’t count because SH3 came out before games had politics which only began happening some time around 2014 or alternatively, before these people were born
(not having played the game myself) I would argue that characters that only exist to give depth to the protagonist aren’t strong arguments for woke, though my understanding was that Silent Hill was nearly explicitly about misogyny
I probably wouldn’t say the series is about misogyny as a whole
I think that’s kind of flattening the plot of Silent Hill 2, since the whole game is about their relationship. If there is a second character (because it is a little solipsistic), it’s the dead wife and not any of the living NPCs encountered along the way, and if there’s a third character, it’s the woman who is a representation of his fucked-up conception of his wife, i.e. the third character is also still just the first two characters.