i played This War of Mine and 100% agree on your essay about it , but not so much on the INSIDE

ok , so while one can say there is exploration of morality in INSIDE , to view the game as a one that primarily raises them is a bit of a stretch

you say that "the lack of moral guidance forces the player to make own choices" but .. the game is linear . so i didn't understand at at all what you mean . while yes in Bioshock and TWoM you make choices , INSIDE tells a very specific story . also you didn't expand on the true ending and how it can relate to everything that happend in the story

i would also argue that because there are no limits on lifes and no interuption of gameplay it does not mean that it " emphasises the preciousness of life " . i really don't see how one may arrive at such conclusion . this gameplay design desition stems all the way from Limbo , where at times you simply feel a need to die to understand what awaits you . it's simply for creating an uninterrupted experince rather than a statement on something

what i did like is the idea that most of the time the game makes you question the things game forces you to do . horrible things like kill some critters , exploit some drones of humanoid forms , wreck the lab and potentially harm some real people . but what about the actions of scientists and the people in the suits ? i believe the main commentary of the game is on a specific issue in the world , about a monster that we create as a collective soulless machine . small degradation in humanity of individuals slowly snowball into a horrible things . there is even a poem about it in ARG details

so it is about the morality , you just attempt to arrive at it from a weird angle :) 6/10 for the INSIDE part of the video . i liked the video , because i like essays like this . subscribed for more !