u/Smoothbur

I love DBH, I really do; it’s a REALLY good game, but it has a few flaws that never fail to give me the ick. One of them is the fact that every human being in this game—anyone who opposes the androids or feels disdain toward them—is portrayed as stupid, ridiculous, and/or irrational; people who can only be viewed as "good" at the precise moment they accept the androids without any further reservations.

For example: the protesters in Markus’s first chapter had a just cause; the fact that androids and AI are taking away their jobs is a very valid complaint and a legitimate reason to hate them, yet they were reduced to mere violent and irrational caricatures.

Honestly—in my opinion—the fact that Todd (who hated androids) was also a drug addict, a violent individual, and absolutely broke is just another example of how the game subconsciously tries to tell you: "Look! Everyone who hates AI is a terrible person!"—despite the fact that both Todd and every other human in the game who hated androids had very valid reasons for doing so. I’m not here to defend Todd, because I hate the guy, but come on—we can’t call him stupid for being angry that he lost his job because of the androids.

Also the fact that Leo was ALSO a drug addict. 🫠

Rose’s son(lowkey forgot his name..) who didn’t believe androids were alive and was protayed as a total dick(Rose did defend him tho!) until he accepted androids without any further complaints.

Gavin(i don’t think i need to explain this)

Any human being who did not believe that androids had feelings, or who was not entirely on their side from the first second(Which was totally understandable—humans were given less than a week to process the damn revolution, and they had lived for sixteen years with millionaires swearing to them that an android revolution was impossible)

This game feels a lot like: “oh! You’re angry androids are taking over your job and taking control over basically the entire art and music industry? You’re just being dramatic and whiny” like, yeah, let’s ridicule capitalisim victims while trying to defend other capitalism victims.

I also have to mention the fact that there are almost no pro android humans—the only exceptions being the stereotypical Black character, who supports the androids because their own people were also enslaved, and the characters whose son/buddy was an android.

I have no doubt that if androids were to ever exist, there would be countless people mistreating them in horrible ways—just like in dbh. However, there would also be just as many people protesting for their freedom the very day the first android went on sale; after all, we humans are highly emotional beings.

I feel that the theme of humans mistreating androids is, to a certain extent, well executed; it demonstrates how many humans choose to blame the vulnerable being—who never asked to be created—rather than the idiotic millionaires who actually created it. However, it is so heavily cartoonized and lacks such and important positive counterpart that I just cannot help but complain.

I despise how this game tries to portray anyone who doesn't side with the androids as absolute idiots, yet at the same time shows you little to no humans who are in their side, it's so confusing.

Because of this, sometimes I feel like this game feels more like the typical “fuck humans!” Ad instead of an actual “fuck capitalism!” Social criticism, which is how it was meant to be.

David cage things, ig 🫩 maybe i’m just thinking a lot

Okay, so, i finished my first DBH gameplay around 10 days ago, and i’m currently playing a new one, and since the start i noticed that, androids break or/and shut down very easily.

Like, they don’t survive things like humans do, something that makes no sense for me because Androids are SUPPOSED to be better, stronger and smarter than humans, be superior in ANY way, but Idk, maybe they’re stronger but less physically resistant.???

I don’t have an exact example(maybe the android that shut down in rose’s house and looked almost perfectly fine to me but when don’t really know that happened to her) but throughout the entire game, I saw how easily their biocomponents broke—like, there were androids that died from a single hit, or suffered disproportionate physical consequences from their injuries, and I just don't get it.