I saw Rose's piece on my timeline yesterday and thought "uh-oh", but I think we are covering a couple of different things - she focus on the similarity in which games convey similar messages (which I also disagree with! and i like to think that it's a symptom of time more than anything. were people calling platformers "jumpslop" in the 80s?) and on how players are able to "break" the message, like in citizen sleeper, if they optimize or get lucky enough (another disagreement, as, ultimately, the decisions as players shape the story: making citizen sleeper frictionless is something you want to do, and arguably, the whole objective to beat the game),, but I agree with you that it's possible to not get interesting textures from the contradiction, which for me is a failure of narrative, not of form.
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