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Aug. 1st, 2020 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feotakahariIn retrospect, Omensight was what I wanted Radiant Historia to be.
In Radiant Historia, almost every possible timeline will lead to the destruction of the world, and it's up to you to find the one path to safety. So you try every possibility, even ones that make you uncomfortable, just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Then you realize that "what sticks" is 90% traditional Japanese collectivist morality and 10% valuing your friends over strangers. You never have to do anything that makes you uncomfortable, so long as you're never made uncomfortable by traditional Japanese collectivist morality.
In Omensight, none of the paths that are available to you will save the world, because you simply don't know enough. In one timeline, you save and befriend someone, and you get information. In another timeline, you murder her to impress someone else, and you get different information. You spend a lot of time being uncomfortable, no matter what your morals are, because your actions aren't driven by morals, but by desperation.
In Radiant Historia, almost every possible timeline will lead to the destruction of the world, and it's up to you to find the one path to safety. So you try every possibility, even ones that make you uncomfortable, just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Then you realize that "what sticks" is 90% traditional Japanese collectivist morality and 10% valuing your friends over strangers. You never have to do anything that makes you uncomfortable, so long as you're never made uncomfortable by traditional Japanese collectivist morality.
In Omensight, none of the paths that are available to you will save the world, because you simply don't know enough. In one timeline, you save and befriend someone, and you get information. In another timeline, you murder her to impress someone else, and you get different information. You spend a lot of time being uncomfortable, no matter what your morals are, because your actions aren't driven by morals, but by desperation.
