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* An arguable example occurs in \\\'\\\'Persona 4\\\'\\\'. It\\\'s a game about \\\"reaching out for the truth\\\", but virtually everything that might classify as \\\"a complaint against society\\\" conveniently turns out to be an untruth. It\\\'s justifiable, since this is a Japanese game and thus is unlikely to criticize the group over the individual, but there are lots of things that are said that could be taken by Western players are perfectly valid, but the narrative avoids debate by categorizing them all as evasions and self-deception. For example, Yukiko dislikes being forced to inherit her family\\\'s inn: turns out, [[spoiler:what she \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' was worried about was having to do it all alone. The issue of not being able to choose her own job is thus not really addressed at all.]] Rise dislikes being seen as a media lust object and all the hassle that comes with pop stardom: turns out, [[spoiler:she secretly enjoys being in the spotlight and goes back to the industry when it becomes clear she might be replaced. Her suffering while in that job is written off, and not really dealt with, as just something she has to suffer through, and no real understanding is directed at the issue of how everyone sees her as a media image.]] Yumi has a complaint about her father selfishly abandoning his wife and child. This is never addressed, because [[spoiler:her father ends up dying in the hospital, and Yumi decides to live up to her name and \\\"bear fruit\\\" by dropping out of the drama club; the narrative avoids assessing her father\\\'s behavior at all by casting Yumi\\\'s misgivings as selfish.]] And the crowning example, there\\\'s a character in the game who has a lot of complaints about how impossible it is to be rewarded for your hard work in the current job system if you aren\\\'t talented. Whether or not these complaints are accurate is never really addressed, because who is it making these complaints? [[spoiler:A psychotic serial killer who just uses it as justification for an insane plan to turn the world into fog-brained Shadows. Thus, his complaints about society can conveniently avoid being debated by the players, since they come out of a psychotic man-child\\\'s mouth.]]
I think these are actually good points. If we take out the \\\"arguable\\\" in the beginning, this should be workable.
* An arguable example occurs in \\\'\\\'Persona 4\\\'\\\'. It\\\'s a game about \\\"reaching out for the truth\\\", but virtually everything that might classify as \\\"a complaint against society\\\" conveniently turns out to be an untruth. It\\\'s justifiable, since this is a Japanese game and thus is unlikely to criticize the group over the individual, but there are lots of things that are said that could be taken by Western players are perfectly valid, but the narrative avoids debate by categorizing them all as evasions and self-deception. For example, Yukiko dislikes being forced to inherit her family\\\'s inn: turns out, [[spoiler:what she \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' was worried about was having to do it all alone. The issue of not being able to choose her own job is thus not really addressed at all.]] Rise dislikes being seen as a media lust object and all the hassle that comes with pop stardom: turns out, [[spoiler:she secretly enjoys being in the spotlight and goes back to the industry when it becomes clear she might be replaced. Her suffering while in that job is written off, and not really dealt with, as just something she has to suffer through, and no real understanding is directed at the issue of how everyone sees her as a media image.]] Yumi has a complaint about her father selfishly abandoning his wife and child. This is never addressed, because [[spoiler:her father ends up dying in the hospital, and Yumi decides to live up to her name and \\\"bear fruit\\\" by dropping out of the drama club; the narrative avoids assessing her father\\\'s behavior at all by casting Yumi\\\'s misgivings as selfish.]] And the crowning example, there\\\'s a character in the game who has a lot of complaints about how impossible it is to be rewarded for your hard work in the current job system if you aren\\\'t talented. Whether or not these complaints are accurate is never really addressed, because who is it making these complaints? [[spoiler:A psychotic serial killer who just uses it as justification for an insane plan to turn the world into fog-brained Shadows. Thus, his complaints about society can conveniently avoid being debated by the players, since they come out of a psychotic man-child\\\'s mouth.]]
I think these are actually good points. If we take out the \\\"arguable\\\" in the beginning, this should be workable.
