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  • Added: 11/17/2012 09:07 AM
  • Last updated: 04/28/2024 07:48 AM
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Wait I thought this was a game about solving mysteries as a middle-aged depressed detective and I doubt that character type has an interest in fantasy games
Actually, I thought it made perfect sense. As someone who has spent a lifetime with crippling bipolar depression, I can personally attest to the fact that escapism into games - fantasy or otherwise - is certainly a very real option and choice. A middle-aged man that is battling with depression and self-loathing would certainly want to escape from time to time.

It might feel jarring to the player, going from a grim'n'gritty story about death and loss and depression, into a happy fantasy RPG minigame, but lore-wise it makes perfect sense.
The game he's playing also winds up being part of the process of getting information from a kid in the arcade for a case he's working on.
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