AJ: Sure Hyun-ae was selfish in that she wanted to choose for herself how she lived her life — I just don’t understand what’s supposed to be negative about that. I also don’t get why it would have been better for her to commit mass murder to avenge others instead of her own treatment, as you seem to imply. Just because it would have been less selfish?

I agree it would have been better for her to understand the world she had effectively been born into in order to carve a niche for herself in it. But then again I wonder if that would have been possible: After all, there wasn’t merely put societal pressure on her to marry, she was *forced* to do so.

I also don’t think that Hyun-ae’s final act was supposed to be “good”. She cracked from the abuse she suffered and the loss of her only friend. But for me that made her more sympathetic. She was a wrongdoer, yes, but she was first and foremost a victim.

can’t decide whether to delete your comment because you’re an ass or because it’s full of spoilers for the game.

This makes me very unsympathetic to her struggle. Her reasons where also very selfish. She didn’t mass murder to avenge her friends or family, she did it because she hated the way she had been treated.

Throughout the rest of story she tries to garner sympathy for her situation by claiming that her actions where somewhat justified. Sure, her life was horrible but she wants me to believe suffering warranted the destruction of an entire society? …Did she even consider the fact that there were other women where suffering under the same rules her? Did she consider that maybe her rash actions contributed to her horrible treatment?

Why does she expect sympathy when she killed so many people that never wronged her in any way? I’m not siding with any of the characters, I just want to point out that in a lot of ways Hyun-ae was being just as ignorant, selfish and hateful as her oppressors. She talks a lot about her friend the queen, but she ends up killing all the people the queen loved after she dies… Hyun just doesn’t seem to consider others very much throughout the story. It’s all about her suffering and how much she felt she lost what she was entitled to.

Despite the fact that I didn’t like Mutes old world views, I found her much more entertaining, and much more rational. Mute asks you to consider both sides while Hyun-ea tells you to always dismiss Mute.

The most satisfying ending I have gotten is the one where the unseen pilot leaves Hyun-ae in the lonely and empty world she created as Mute sails of into the distance with her new friend.

it just seems odd to me that you’d want, as a part of your unique identity as a woman, to be abused by men in that way?

Or were you just riffing/daydreaming in your OP? That I can understand completely :3

do you want to grow a child within you?

i think miss love was trying to set up a dichotomy between a consensual, negotiated relationship and one imposed by society. but as a result the player feels ultimately peripheral to the events of the story, and the narrator warm and polite to the point that i think strains belief.