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"Desensitization" happened over the years when it comes to violent movies as well. Many movies from the 70s and 80s were deemed to be to be too extreme back then and today nobody really cares. Evil Dead was banned in Germany for quite some times and now you can see it as long as you are 16 or older - even in Germany which probably has the most extreem youth protection laws one could imagine. The reason for this is that people are used to see this sort of FICTIONAL violence now so it does not shock them anymore. However they are aware that it is just a movie. The same thing does NOT apply to the real world. You won't go out, see a person ripped to shreds and say to yourself "Oh, I've seen this in Evil Dead - it does not shock me".

So as long as you are aware that this game is only telling a fictional story how could it desesitize you for real events? Both things are completely different. I mean - this is not even an actual game in which you are allowed to control your character and even though the render do look pretty good they are still far from looking real. You are basically watching a storybook with some animated scenes in it about a pretty dark story with a psychological background. So why again should I now have any more desire to go out and abuse women just because I watched a storybook about a sick kid and clicked on some choice buttons to branch inside the story?

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Do you think that fictional stories cannot reflect on reality, simply because of the separation of the fictional and the real?  I think so, maybe I'm wrong. It's probably not the fault of the game here, and it's just my fears that people will be indifferent to one more thing. But thank you for clarifying that it is unlikely that people will imitate the game and devalue the problem because of its demonstration.

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By the way, what do you think about such a thing as the formation of tastes in games? Let's say that rape games became a hit and they started being released in batches, and this formed a new taste among the players. Comparatively like some anime girls who look and behave like small children, but they have been credited with 300 years of life, therefore porn with them is "legal", people have formed expectations and desires for this in reality. We can say that the media is not to blame, the people are to blame, but I adhere to the position that the authors themselves create their audience, that they are responsible for appropriating the audience.