Life is Strange: True Colors, an Empathetic World
Deck Nine’s newest entry in the budding franchise is what we need right now
Gentleness. When asked what might make the world a better place, what one thing would turn society toward the better, that’s my answer. Gentleness.
In his famous speech from The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin said:
Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…
While playing Life is Strange: True Colors (the newest entry in the Life is Strange franchise, developed by Before the Storm creators Deck Nine) I found myself thinking about that speech more than once. It’s easy to get caught up in what we want to do, what we need to do, but when it comes to the ultimate social necessity —gentleness — many of us falter, sideswiped by our own predilections and prejudices.
