Become Humans

Rafael Souza
Sep 8, 2018 · 10 min read

Hi guys, how are you today? Everybody great i hope. This time i’m gonna do something cool. I’m gonna write in English to pratice and to challenge myself to do something different.

The last few days , i have been watching how everything is going around me. And i observed something very scary… People are insane and I DON’T KNOW WHY!!

Starting from this, i’m gonna tell something about one game. This game change my vision of the world and made me think different about everything. I learn a lot with video games but not always people see that, so…

This AMAZING game is Detroit: Become Human.

I have so much to say, so i’m gonna tell in parts and at the final, i’m gonna tell why this game is so amazing to me.It’s gonna be a veeeery long text, so be confortable. Are you ready? Come with me and welcome to Detroit…

Kara Main Theme

Detroit is a PS4 game, where EVERY decision you made, affect everything around you. Every choice have a consequece, just like in real life. You can end the game with a war or you can be a pacifist. NOTHING in this game is simple…

All of the caractares are androids. A company named Cyberlife discover how use artificial intelligence to made “persons”. This androids are like humans, they have body, biocomponents and of course, “a mind”. They are just like us and that what made game so amazing and so hard at same time.

We play with three principal caracters: Connor (the cop), Markus (a caregiver of the elderly) and Kara (the baby-sitter). Every decision you have with each one is going affect your gameplay somehow. And it is really terrifying, specialy when you are someone with a good mood. Let’s understand one at time.


Connor

Starting the text and the game with my favorite caracter. Connor. He is a investigator. Is the most powerfull android made by Cyberlife to help police with androids crimes. Without a reason, crimes evolving these robots starts and the confidence in the company could be devastated if androids become criminals. But how this happening?

Well, the game is based in the three laws of azimov. This three laws says:

1 — A robot(android) NEVER can injure or hurt to any human

2 — A robot need to obey humans orders, EXCEPT when this order contradicts with first law.

3 — A robot need to protect his own existence, EXCEPT when this contradicts with the first two laws.

(Thanks to Tio Zangado for made an amazing video about it and i’m gonna put the link at the end of the text)

When robots starts to hurts humans, Connor are sent to understand what is going on and do everything to stop that.

Connor is smart, observer and astute. But he’s still is a robot and don’t understand humans. He starts work with Lieutenant Hank, an old man, grumpy and he hates androids. And here we have an amazing point.

Lieutenant Hank

Your actions with Connor (and the orders too) form relationships with people around you (with Kara this will be shown much more). If you do something bad, Hank is gonna be angry and maybe can hate you at final (he really gonna be angry and shot in Connor’s head. The choises are very important, because you can let people die, get hurt, get lost and even hurt yourself!

And here i’m like to make a point… Look around you now and think how everything in your life is going. Think about every choise you made and how this affected you and the people you love and care about. Sometimes is hard, right? Not every day is a good day and almost always we do something wrong to somebody and that choise can influence much more we can imagine… We are humans and we make the worst things when we want, and that’s terrible… i’m really afraid what we can be and where we going… it’s to scary…

You need to make hard choises with him. You can kill people, can let they hurt in so many ways (phisical or psicological), you can kill Connor in ALMOST EVERY SCENARIO (and that have terrible consequeces too. Remember, he’s just an android, if HE get down, Cyberlife do one more). Let people influence you (and this really happening with everybody, every single day we need to deal with and 99% of times is very hard).

Connor is like a person who still don’t know who he are and it’s a terrible thing. Like a child he can be so influenced by everthing around and the hard choises gonna show him who he really are…

Like everybody, find this answer is not easy and so many times is very painfull. That mades think about who i’m now, who i became and how i do thing in my past. I know myself better now. Of course, this brought me more doubts but, i’m start to understand who i’ve became. This is amazing, and a hard lesson to me, believe me.

And that are the reasons why Connor is the best caracter to me. In him, i’ve start to see everything different, think much more about the others and what i can do to make the world around me better. I’m starts to think how i can help people and make people i really care about happy… not always is easy, but life is like this… open my eyes to that was so hard… but really necessary.


Kara

Now it’s time to tell you guys about this amazing android. And i need to say, with her i’ve learned so much… and definitly play with her made me cry a lot (it’s the most beautiful and painful storie. Really guys, it’s to hard for me), but i really LOVE Kara and i’m gonna tell why…

Kara is a baby-sitter/maid, and she need to care this little girl named Alice.

Alice

Alice is a ten year old kid, and like every kid, she just want to be happy. Make friends, go to school, read lots of books and grow like “normal people” (her words, not mine). She don’t have a mother, she’s have just a father named Todd (i’m not gonna put a photo because his is a garbage and i don’t like him). Todd is a junkie how abuses Alice (hitting her every time he can) everytime the drugs affect him. He’s become extremely violent when use drugs. An unemployed, degenerated who don’t think about consequences.

Just like us lately… i’ve been really sad this days. I see lots of people celebrating a near murder, just because they don’t like this guy (i’m not talking about politcs here, i’m talking about a cowardly act and some people doesn’t understand that, that’s REALLY sad and really terrifying.

When Todd is gonna KILL Alice (yes, he’s gonna kill a child!)you need make a choise with Kara. You save Alice or you let her die for nothing. When Kara see this happening, when she’s realized what is about to happen, she’s became a deviant (an android who have free himself from the humans orders) and starts to think why this things happen. Why humans are so stupids to get to this point, to muder someone just to show everybody who is right. Kara wakes for a simple reason. Love. A real love for another one, the desire to protect someone with all forces and not care about the consequences. Life is important, i child life VERY very important. During the game, Alice always question Kara about everything. “Why Todd doesn’t love me?”, “Why people are so evil?”, “Why i can’t be just like others kids?”, “i`m not a good child?”. That questions really hurt me. Kids dont’t care about this things, they just want a way to be happy and have the loved people . Kara see the worst in people and the most important thing to her is save Alice, no matter how, Alice’s life is more important than her own, and that’s is beautiful.

Remember when i said about how relationships are showed more with Kara? Well, every choise you made can be Alice love you or hate you. Sometimes you need to do something you never do to save her. But she’s just a kid, so when she see something wrong, the love her felts for Kara can change to hate, you need to protect her at the same time you do everything to not get lost her affection and that’s is really hard. Kara have the hardhest storie of three main, almost always you need sacrifice someone to stay alive and always are people who Kara or Alice care about or someone who you help during the game.

Why this storie are so hard to me? Because i made choises i really don’t wanna do. I need to decide things that i hope never need decide in my life. And lately, people don’t see the value of life anymore. People just want to show who is right and not cares about means to get this point. Kill or try to kill someone just for not agree or just because a “not liked” person. Where we gonna get? I’m really afraid about where human race can go or how we can go there…


Markus

Last but not least important. Markus is the most important caracter. Every decisions made by him affect Kara, Connor and THE WORLD AROUND. Markus see the worst (THE WORST) side from people. Markus is raised by an old paintor named Carl Manfred. Carl treats Markus like a real son, teach him about everything. Music, art, philosofy. Carl always incentivate Markus to be who he really are and NEVER let humans say to him what he are or what he can be. Markus have very very hard choises. Like Kara, you decide sometimes who lives and who dies. You leads a small group of deviants and decide what you gonna do to get peace for your people(androids). You can be a pacifist, show everybody the androids don’t want to hurt nobody, just want a fair life. Markus is the first to starts to think why the society is so unfair with the androids, why bad things happening all the time, from where comes so much hate. When he starts to questionate that, he wakes and become a deviant to (just like Kara, to protect someone who he loves). And everything get hard. Until the end of the game, Markus is the most lost caracter, just because he need take some hard paths with this comrades. He can make a war to show his point or he can be a pacifist and let his people die before your eyes.

Play with Markus show me how we can change everything around us. How our choises affect around. That’s maybe the hardhest lesson and nobody wake to this in a easy way… open the eyes can be the most difficult task who everyone can do and unafortunaly is really necessary to understand what is really important in our lifes. Is necessary to remember why we fight and why we need to understand the orthers. Not everyone is prepared for that. Not everyone cares about it and maybe that’s why humanity get to this point and every day get worst.


Detroit show me how difficult life can be. How the humans are completly idiots and how we can be the worst garbage in this universe. I’ve learned about how my choises can make the world different. How the orthers people are important and what is really not important but almost everybody have forget that. So let’s stop a moment, let’s care about the orthers feelings. Stop celebrate and defend wrong things. Starts to worry about what is really important. Care about who love you, who are in your side every time you need not just in good moments. Appreciate what you have, appreciate the good and the bad days (it’s very hard, but i’m trying hard to do that and believe me, that makes difference). Stop to celebrating death, stop to decrease and humiliate who doesn’t agree with you. Hate is in everywhere but we can stop it, can make things different. Smile, help who you can, do your best everyday, i know not alyways are easy but, try it. Please let’s do something different, we could better everyday. And i want to get older and look back and be proud of what i did, proud to have been a good person, not to gain somethin, but because is the right. I know, nothing is gonna change for lots of people, but if i can change one think around me, i made a good thing. I made a better world. Sorry for the long text but, i’m really need to unburden and write this things help me. And talk about detroit is something i want to do since i was finished the game but i have no one to talks about…

Thanks for read and i really hope everthing for you get really better. Let’s change the world or just make what is right :)

And sorry for the mistakes, i’m still learning english xD

And lot`s of thanks for Quantic Dream to make this Amazing game. I love it. And the video from Zangado about, if you guys want know a little more:

https://youtu.be/T37nK72Mi1A

Rafael Souza

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Sonhador, pseudo escritor de transporte público e jogador de Rainbow Six: Siege nas horas vagas

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