You can shoot people (and the site actually works), you can run, jump, fight. Heck, you can shank people (if you don't know what that is, don't ask your mom, this has been retroactively labelled as 'not child friendly' for you). You can deal with monsters. You can pretend to be the police.

You're an FPS, and a good one. How do you know? Well you can do all of the above. But there's a darker side. The seamier side that sparks all of the political conversations, such as, do videogames cause violence or are they detrimental to society. Because here's what you can't do- it's reserved for RPGs.

You can't wander far. You can't talk about anything but plot, sexual innuendo (clean) and violence or crime. You can't experience the effects of drinking or drugs. You can't die. You can't hug people, form long term intimacies, have habits or a home. You can't collect anything but clothing, weapons or bare necessities.

Seem wrong? That's because it is, according to society. You shouldn't be able to impersonate the police or military- but it makes the interface possible. You should be able to do any of the suburban rituals that society deems appropriate, if illegal, but cannot.

But they can't publish that if you're in the approved roles that you're not allowed to be in. So society becomes incorrect, and you become singular and powerful. It's a conversation. And if anyone was going to have it, internally- let's be real. It'll be Japan. So they did. Ghost in the Shell.

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