BobTheDuck
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It's actually third person perspective. Every scene is external from Nika, there is nothing first persective the entire game. Look at the angles - the hand is closest, down at the bottom the the screen and the shouder recedes into the background. If it was first person, Nika would be looking at someone else's arm, to look at his own the hand would be receding. Everything is from the cinematic, external view. The reason we think it is Nika's is because we hear his internal dialogue the most. There is the scene with Sasha and Robin calling either Marla or Bella that is completely divorced from Nika, but it's the same third person view.
So it could be a guy Nika saw, and both of them beat each other senseless. I prefer the simpler more common view it's Nika though, as we don't need to add a mysterious extra nameless wounded guy to the narrative for any reason ...Ocean can complicate it easily enough without me wanting extra characters
After goth bus/pizza girl, she's my favourite unknown. Actually more interested in finding out about those two than some characters like Nadia or Sonja. But really Ocean will make anyone look hot the minute he focuses on them.
*...Always have been!*
As has been stated many times, there is a tag in the games section for 'no sexual content'. there's a list 22 pages long with games with this tag, around 650. Why would the forum mods need this tag if it is a porn forum? And this doesn't count the games that have content such as partial nudity, so there's even more games that arent doing 18+ content. You might find games that only have handholding here even.
The no sexual content tags
Great post. Here's an idea for a script though: a character never suffers any repercussions, but it always falls on the people they care about instead. It's only bad writing if the writer is oblivious to the pitfalls. I mean, Star Wars, being one of Ocean's favourites, you have the upstart rebels chopping people up vigilante style. What matters is not whether there is an equal and opposite reaction for every action, but whether the story creates sufficient reason why the axe never falls. Even the threat of consequences can be enough if done well. Given that Ocean acknowledges there are consequences for actions with the whole locker room scenario, the reasons Nika and Bella might avoid consequences are: other people have bigger goals and use the situation to manipulate them, it sets of a chain of events and the tally is only over at the end, there are people on Nika's side who have a criminal empire who disappear the problems. Ultimately it's a question of power - justice isn't always the most powerful force in a society, and we don't yet know all the politics that have happened or even the current politics of Wollust.
But even if the get to skip jail, monopoly style, whoever helped them has control.
I do agree that these concepts of morality suit WiaB for more, but even sufficient indirect consequences can be enough to cover the crime without trivialising it. It'd certain be rich if Bella and Nika's scheming is dealt with more trivially than the locker room - everyone seems polarised by that and Robin being so evil, while giving Bella and Nika's criminality a free pass.
I can't help but wonder if they chaffed the whole day, like Vanessa was saying. It's almost solid iron, lucky her booty looks like treasure!
