girl escorters are the new WW2 shooters
I read this post and it gave me a brilliant idea for an escort game that would really fuck with gaming journos. You play as a father who is desperately looking for his child in a world gone mad. People are out to kill you and you have to rescue your daughter from being held somewhere. Your wife is dead, killed by the evil murdering psychos and your daughter was taken away, after you rescue here (tutorial level of breaking in and rescue) you spend the rest of the game fighting through a city gone mad as you try to get to the safety of your cabin in the woods as you plan to lie low and wait out the apocalypse/zombies/madness/contrails. Your daughter follows you blindly, but mutely, you keep trying to reassure her of how its all going to be okay and you'll keep her safe, she trusts you but seems withdrawn, over the course of the game she regains her speech (some catatonia to begin with) and starts dropping small hints that let you know that she knows more about her mothers mysterious murder. FInally when you get to the cabin at the end its all safe, you saved your daughter, happy music plays and the effort of getting your mass murder on to get your daughter safe from the crazy hordes of popamole is all forgotten as you live your life in a log cabin in the woods.
Cue twist, final moments are of a security recording of a police interview, turns out you are a schizophrenic, your daughter witnessed you murder your wife, and all through the story those crazy people you murdered were actually law abiding citizens and police officers trying to stop you on your brutal psychotic rampage. GOTY!!! MURDERSPREE AND EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT!!!! Sort of like a Brevik given charge of a minor explaining his manifesto, and the child accepting it as fact.
Edit. Make the PC a retired christian minister, the enemies are Demon possessed/devil worshippers, have the game portray his psychotic break to the player so what he believes is what is shown, his wife left him with the kid to live in a big city, he came from small town Westboro, came to visit and lost his shit. After rescuing his child he planned to return to his hometown where its safe and people arent satan worshippers, except he sees someone from the hometown on a newsbit, figured that the demons are everywhere and he best escape to wait out the judgement at the cabin.
The only reason why id like to see that kind of twist to really put these game journos in mind of why they keep lauding these mass murder sims as great works of storytelling and not the facile shit made for retards games that they are.
Edit 2. You know what? Fuck all my previous ideas, just remake DOOM, throw in a kid/female character to escort, and add some light story there. You get your Murdersim with emotional engagement AND a remake/reboot at the same time. Fuck I should be a gaming exec!