i appreciate your anti invisigal agenda, Iām so sick of people defending her
Same. Literally the only reason people are defending her is because of the scene where she was having a wet dream about Robert. They're simps defending a literal sex offender. I will never stop the invisigal slander. If she has no opposers, it means I am dead.
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I always thought Flambae was supposed to be a Spaniard. It's better than the alternative of a hot headed Latino character with a fire theming. BUT HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE AFGHAN?!!
Free him and the rest of the POC characters.
I'm hoping to see some redesigns the properly implement their cultures.
Diversity win! The mean gay/flaming homosexual with the Spanish accent is actually Afghan!
Yes heās from Afghanistan š imagine my surprise when we found that out too. And like I said before, considering his original concept art was white,,,itās pretty clear that they didnāt rethink these things over when they decided to change him.
Honestly every single one of their designs is incredibly lack luster, theyāre all super plain looking and on the nose in terms of what they do and who they are. It was very boring to look at, especially when most superhero media at least has something dynamic to stare at. The game couldāve really been campy with its tropes and stereotypes even, if it wasnāt so violently homophobic and racist.
Once again, we can only hope the redesigns are better.
I agree with most of your criticisms on Dispatch as well. One of the few things I dislike about the fandom is that if you pointed out how immature Invisigal was or that her relationship with Rob made you feel uncomfortable people would either call you a misogynist or automatically assumed you were a Blonde Blazer fan. There didnāt feel like there was a space to critique Invisigalās character in any meaningful sense in the fandom when the game first started to come out.
And I don't like Blonde Blazer either tf. This trend of "cute white women" characters who are just casually racist is annoying as hell. I deadass assumed her character was a joke because...there's no way right? We're serious?
White people and their hair color racism is...so strange to watch from a distance.
But most of my critiques will always be towards Invisigal. She's less of a character and more of a plot device to sexually assault Robert and...well that's pretty much it. We've abandoned the original premise of the game, if there ever was one, and we're solely zoned in on how we can be everything to her. I've heard people saying "well you dont HAVE to romance her" and it's like...sure. You also don't have to dispatch at all, you can completely fail that segment of the game and suffer no consequences. There's a lot of things you don't have to do, but that doesn't mean the game insists upon the existence of these mechanics anyways and steers you in that direction. You don't have to pay Blonde Blazer any attention at all, she'll back off. But you can NOT avoid Invisigal and that is annoying.
The concept of neglecting a fully grown woman who's older than the character you play as...mm.
I hope you donāt mind me sending an ask about dispatch. I remember being iffy about dispatch actually allowing Robert to romance other male characters, but I nearly bought into it since the game itself had the LGBT tag on Steam. Then when the episodes slowly started to roll out I quickly realized it wasnāt the case and that Robertās only options were just Blonde Blazer and Invisigal. I knew in my gut that I was probably going to get baited, but I had some slight hope that either Flamebae/Phenomaman/or even Waterboy would be a secret third love interest but alas.
Also if you donāt mind me asking what happened with the devs baiting their fans on the Discord server? I donāt remember hearing that happening.
Well it's pretty simple.
Dispatch had a discord server and in that server, fans were asking if they could expect to see any queer storylines in the game. I don't remember the wording verbatim but they said something along the lines of "you'll just have to see ;)" so obviously fans were excited. That sort of wording implies that there IS queer material, and at this point the discussion is how good will the material be.
The queerphobic rhetoric is just one of the many problems the game has.
Thoughts on Dispatch? Even though embarrassingly I liked the game, I do have to agree that some of their writing decisions were not...great.... Especially with how the Black female characters get treated both by the game and the fandom.
Oof okay.
In case this isn't clear, DISPATCH SPOILERS under cut.
So I watched my partner play through Dispatch as every set of chapters dropped. I very much enjoyed the first chapter, and I actually had high hopes that it would really be an interesting game. It started in the LA area and seemed like it would be a great game to discuss the "legacy mentality" that often leads people into danger and forsaking the lives their predecessors fought for.
I remember thinking that the detail of Prism being a black woman from Flint, Michigan was very intentional and would surely be brought up later. Surely. Surely they would discuss the water cri-
Anyways, I didn't have an issue with the first few chapters. Sort of.
I did not like Invisigal from the moment she was introduced and she said that Robert had a "dad bod" despite the man looking like he eats half a meal a day. Especially since she's older than him, which reminds me, her age was weird to me too. She's 27...which doesn't make any sense given her personality and also general appearance. But what if, let's say she was...17? All of a sudden her personality makes more sense. All of her sudden her "neglected" ending could have a stronger context, and her entire relationship with Robert becomes recontextualized. But there's no way they aged her up 10 years to make her legal to lewd out the way they do in the game, but didn't change any of her original writing. No, this is purely conjecture. Pure. Conjecture.
A lot of my initial shock began with the "illusion of choice" mechanic they rolled out. When my partner played, the first time we saw the horror of this in full effect was when we were forced to choose between Sonar and Coupe. Of course we thought that, surely, saying nothing would be a choice in itself. This is Robert telling Blonde Blazer that he won't give up on his team. This lack of choice will mean something.
And then Sonar went bye-bye.
I don't like MoistCritikal in any capacity so it was nice not to hear his voice for a while. But obviously we were shocked. The game just made the choice for us,,,and we would soon realize that's actually what the whole game is about; having a very OBVIOUS CANON it wants you to follow and punishing you for not following it. I'm aware of the notion that this is a classic "Telltale" phenomenon. I hate it.
The dispatching was probably the best part, but it didn't really matter. Nothing mattered except Invisigal who we could not escape. The choices involving her were always weird because there was no variety in them. You could never just outright tell her to "fuck off". I think that's just poor gameplay design in general. At minimum if you're going to have a variety in dialogue, there should be a positive option and a negative option, maybe even the neutral option. Every choice was bare minimum intrigue to whatever she was saying. I had no idea that scene of her at the beginning of the 4th episode was supposed to make everyone's brains leak out of their heads because it had no effect on me, and I'm a lesbian.
I think most of my critique can certainly fall over Invisigal. She was whiny and immature, constantly complaining about her powers being "villainous" while being on a team with a literal demon and a construct that was built solely to steal things. I did not like that her best friend was that construct, the youngest on the team and the one with the LEAST mental maturity. We were able to avoid most of the sexual assault scenes, but their existence is downright absurd. I know Berleezy was horrified, especially since he had already gone down the Blond Blazer route. We spent so much time on her and it did nothing. We chose to untie her in the end and have her fight in the final battle and she still became a villain because we neglected to let her have her way with us ig. We got Sonar back but who cares when Invisigal abandoned us.
Also I really take offense to the blatant ableism of the series. This notion of disabled people siding with a villain that enhances their bodies,,,don't like it. I'm asthmatic myself so as you can imagine I was especially irritated with Invisigal's reasoning and her ridiculous choices. Also, in spite of this message, there's several scenes where Robert and Invisigal brutally break the arms of that guy who's arms were disproportionate to his body and it just...put a bad taste in my mouth. Our girlfriend agreed it was just another example of performatively trying to make a point that they can't even hold up to.
Annnnnd let's see. Yea, the queerbaiting was tragic. We get one male kiss and it's clearly meant to be "haha look this alien doesn't understand humans so he does a gay thing. being gay is basically like being an alien" and I don't understand how people don't get that. This is elementary shit. Flambae says he's gay in like one vague dialogue choice, and while I think his sexuality could also be alluded to given his friendship with Prism, it's not enough. I have higher standards. I think it could have been really easy actually, to have two male love interests and two female love interests; Flambae/Invisigal and Blonde Blazer/Waterboy. Hell throw in Phenomenoman (or however tf you spell his name) and Prism.
But they chose not to. Instead they baited queer fans in their discord server with the tantalizing promise of representation just to not deliver. The Devs suck ass for that.
Last and certainly not least, the racism.
Immediately, I was very turned off by the fact this game predominantly took place in LA and we have no real Hispanic characters. Like, have you ever been to LA? Kind of hard to ignore.
Invisigal is racially ambiguous, don't like that. I know her name is Courtney but her concept art shows her with all these "vaguely east asian downright orientalist" dragon tattoos so I have no idea where they were going with her. All of their original names are terrible, and very white.
Flambae is...confused. He's from Afghanistan but speaks with a Spanish accent because he grew up in Spain, and his name was Chad. His original concept art was also white soooo that checks out.
Did not like how they handled the black characters. The Nicki Mirage joke? Funny! Prism has a split dye bob that's pink and blue, she's a pop star! That shit was funny! But then his white ass had to keep going and call her Cardi C...yea they always overdo it. Chase was, very disappointing. A male mammy to this dumb ass lil white boy, who ends up near comatose thanks to Invisigal's dumb ass, and this is after she assaulted him because he, rightfully, called her out on her bullshit. Most of his dialogue was just...very repetitive and didn't have much substance. Coupe was aggressive and antagonistic because of course, what else would black women be? Blonde Blazer was just cutely racist and we had to skip over that. And of course Royd is Caribbean so he has to be dumb, not really but yes he does. Big dumb guy, no social boundaries. Very original for sure. Great job guys, I think we got all the stereotypes covered!
All this to say that...
The game sucked. 0/10.
Edit: Robertās age is estimated to be in his early 30s. I still donāt agree with him having a ādad bodā or the concept of him neglecting another grown ass woman.
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Okay, so first Iāll say I think you can enjoy something and criticize it at the same time.
I really enjoyed Dispatch, but I also have a lot of problems with the writing and characters. The dispatch gameplay was definitely the best part, and the art and animation were great. However, I agree with a lot of the critics of this game on most of their points.
The first and most glaring problem is all being the weird sexual harassment shit, which is treated as romantic? Itās just off putting and upsetting. I just donāt know why the writers that was okay.
The second major problem I have is the wasted potential. There was so much potential for this story and in particular the characters. The characters are fun, but they donāt have much depth. Unfortunately, most of their stories are revealed in extra content you have to pay for so during the story they kinda fall flat.
The third and last major problem is the romance options. Itās kinda weird the game is labeled as LGBT+ and only has heterosexual romanceble options. Also, the fact that romancing Visi (while not necessary) is closely tied go having a good ending feel weird, especially since the dynamic between Robert and Invisigal is a mentor/mentee relationship.
I donāt know. I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words.
Tricking someone into sex or lying to them about some aspect of sex you agree to equals no consent, and no consent equals rape/SA. Itās not a funny little joke you use to introduce the characters of your dating game
Not to mention, this was used for marketing where they made one for every character! Imagine how disappointing itād be to have that advertising work on you and you get the game just to learn your only actual romance options are the two boring white women who predate on you. Girl bye