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Wednesday 22 February, 2012
Today I picked up where I left off, and began killing people. I am very familiar with the Columbine story, and knew that the boys killed themselves in the library, so I could guess that would be where the game would end. I spent about five minutes killing people before I got absolutely bored of it.
click click click
click click click
And I'm theoretically, from a gameplay perspective, supposed to kill everyone? Yeah, right. The player has no incentive to kill anyone at all. Perhaps this was intentional. In real life, the killings were senseless, and so to mirror that in a game makes a heavy statement about who was responsible for the event, and contrasts this statement with constant criticisms of people who attempted to blame the boys' actions on suggestive music and violent media.
The enemies have names like "Preppy Girl" , "Jock Type", "Pretty Girl", "Preppy Boy," etc, which attempts to put the player in the minds of Dylan and Eric, and the player is supposed to believe this is probably how they saw the world.
I am bored with killing people and do not feel like finding the library yet. I assume there will be a credit roll when I do.
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