Detroit’s Domestic Abuse Trailer Is A Hackneyed Farce

I'm not even sure if I want to get dragged into this but the guy wrote one scene. For a trailer. You make it sound like he was somehow obliged to put all the different kinds and all of history of domestic abuse for every single person into that one scene. That's obviously not how it works. Maybe he copied movies or read some tropes on tvtropes and thought, hey that sounds like something I can use. But you know what? That's alright. Videogames are not reality. They have no obligation to depict reality. To be honest, I prefer if they don't. Sometimes, reality is too brutal. You got triggered, perhaps you expected too much of the game, you took it personally, now you are in a bad mood, if writing helps you, good. But it leaves a poor taste in my mouth when people take their bad mood out on other people. Detroit will have some mediocre success, pewdiepie will play it, people will give it 7s or 8s and then it will be forgotten. No need to get riled up over a game.

I find this disturbing because it perpetuates a notion of what domestic abuse "should" look like so when there are allegations of abuse that don't match up, it's dismissed and ignored.