Ladykiller in a Bind and the joys of challenging art.
So, now that’s my guy.
Games that give us any leeway to be gay whatsoever still feel like a gift.
And that makes sense!
But I’m increasingly drawn to tricky and dark queer games more than the fluffy, wholesome kind.
I want pain and transgression in a controlled environment.
(c’mon don’t Google that.)
Good games about bad gays are rarer than I’d like, but I have some favourites.
Another isParadise Killer, a neon-drenched nightmare in which you play a bisexual member of a mass-murdering God-cult.
The desire to turn them into safer, cleaner representation is a flattening desire.
Does a game owe me that?
The logic behind his characterisation feels flawed and skewed in relation to the rest of the cast.
But there was something satisfying in experiencing a tricky queer storyline that I disliked, even.
One person might find those scenes violating, while another might find them productively risky and insightful.
