Chapter 1181: Emotional Resonance
Unlike most sci-fi themes related to robots, the protagonists are mainly humans.
In Detroit: Become a Human, players can control and experience a total of three protagonists, all of whom are androids.
Connor, Marcus, and Kara.
And they work in a completely different way.
Connor is arguably the most special of them.
Because he is an android who assists the police in their investigation of anomalous androids.
To put it simply, it is to solve one troublesome incident after another.
For example, negotiations, interrogations.
The other two androids, they have the same ending, that is, to become anomalous androids.
But before that, they faced a completely different situation.
Among them, Marcus can be said to be an extremely lucky android, judging from the introduction, he is a prototype android, and was given to an old painter named Carl to take care of his daily life.
And Carl didn't see Marcus as a slave.
In fact, their relationship is more like that of a father and son.
When Chen Xu manipulated Marcus to take care of Carl, he could clearly feel the emotional connection.
And Carl often said some philosophical things to Marcus, and this sentence touched Chen Xu the most.
'One day, I won't be able to take care of you anymore, you have to protect yourself and make your own decisions...... Decide who you really are or what you want to be. ’
The world doesn't like people who are different, Marcus, don't let anyone tell you what you have to be. ’
From these conversations, it can be seen that Marcus and Carl are not simply master and servant.
Carl really taught Marcus as if he were his own son.
Of course, Carl actually had a son himself.
It's just that this son is not very filial.
He just wanted to get money from Carl.
This is the main reason why Marcus later became an anomalous android.
But even though Marcus became an anomalous android, Carl still insisted on letting Marcus leave quickly at the end.
Because once an android is out of control and becomes an anomalous android, it will be controlled and then scrapped.
On the other hand, it is different from Marcus, who has met a good master.
Kara is an ordinary domestic service android, and the owner she meets Todd is also very different from Carl.
So one night, when Todd once again couldn't control his stinky temper, he even hit Alice.
Eventually, Kara broke her barrier and became an anomalous android, leaving the house with Alice.
And the plot of breaking the barrier and becoming an anomalous android also made Chen Xu feel excited.
As an interactive movie game on a VR platform.
Its biggest feature is the sense of immersion.
In particular, the operation mode with brain-computer interface adds to this sense of immersion.
For example, when operating Kara to do housework for Todd, Chen Xu was full of how to mop the floor and wash the dishes.
It can be said that he is an intracranial houseworker.
And this feeling also made him feel a lot of grievances.
For example, Marcus was beaten up by a group of people for no reason, and Carl's son Leo was beaten up.
All of this makes the player feel angry.
And in the end, breaking the android barrier and awakening the free will of human beings also made players feel a sense of immersion.
This immersion is not just a plot, but more of an emotional resonance.
As the game progresses, players gradually shift their focus to the story of the game itself.
Different characters in the game have different stories.
Unlike Marcus and Kara, who awaken into anomalous androids at the beginning.
Connor has always been a being dealing with android cases in the early stage, and he is on the side of humans.
After the first case, the player will also discover that Connor has a human police partner, Vice Captain Hank.
And unlike Carla and Marcus, Connor gives the player a very special feeling.
This is because both Marcus and Kara have been anomalous androids for a long time, and possess something similar to human will.
So Marcus and Kara behave more like humans than androids.
But Connor is different, Connor is still a normal android in the early stage, so players can often see some ridiculous scenes.
For example, when Connor seriously puts blood in his mouth for analysis at a crime scene, Hank next to him will say that he can't stand it.
When he uses a slightly rigid procedural language to curry favor with his stinky partner Hank.
There's also the fact that after he plays with coins and is then taken by Hank, the program shows a sense of grievance.
and a very well-behaved sitting posture, which gives the player a very interesting feeling.
Of course, this is just some flavor enhancer for players in their spare time.
In fact, the story of "Detroit: Become Human" is not so easy.
Even Kara, who is just a bionic and a little girl's adventure, is not so easy.
Among them, the chapter that makes Chen Xu feel the most impactful should be the chapter where Marcus came back from the dead.
Marcus did not die immediately after being shot by a police officer, and as he struggled to his feet, he found himself in a garbage dump.
The corpses of androids are everywhere, and the occasional half-dead android like Marcus is now seen.
Awakening the will of the human race, Marcus does not want to be scrapped in this hellish place, so he wanders the garbage dump in search of intact parts to replace the damaged parts on his body.
Here, the player will also feel the same way as Marcus, for example, the in-game sound effects will mimic the sound effects heard by Marcus, who has lost his audio processor.
Inside the Junkyard, the player will also be able to meet some of the androids who are still alive, begging Marcus not to leave them, begging Marcus not to take their parts, and telling Marcus that they don't want to die.
This makes the player feel for the first time that androids are not simple robots, they are also living beings.
Just like the android who had been interrogated by Connor before.
The reason why he killed his master was because he had been abused for a long time.
After simply searching for parts in the junkyard and replacing them for himself, Marcus crawls out of the dead man's pile and gets a new lease of life.
Facing the raindrops, Marcus opened his arms as if embracing freedom.
He was once in heaven, but now he is in hell.
Marcus then snapped down the symbol symbolizing the android.
At this moment, Marcus's soul is no longer imprisoned by the plastic shell of the android.
His will had fully awakened, and with what he had seen and felt, Marcus strode off into the distance, disappearing into the rain.
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