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In 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.
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Huh. That’s an interesting moral dilemma. I’ll have to think about it carefully before I choose my answer.

That’s less of a dilemma, but you could still argue it either way. Still, I know which answer I’d go with.

That’s probably supposed to be a moral dilemma, but one of the options makes me nauseous just to think about. I’m taking the choice that lets me still feel okay with myself.

Oh, wait. That wasn’t a moral dilemma. None of them were moral dilemmas. They were tests of traditional Japanese moral values, with an instant game over if you chose wrong. I just didn’t notice because the first few times, traditional Japanese moral values happened to align with my values.

So in order to proceed and not get another game over, I just need to make the “right” choice. It’s really just picking one option off a menu and letting the protagonist handle the rest. I could do this if I wanted . . .

Or I could tell this game to go fuck itself, and play something that doesn’t make me nauseous. 

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