So there's this game, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, where a couple of factions are introduced. All of them follow a specific Reason; a concept of the world and its inhabitants as they'd like to have them. Which of those Reasons (or Kotowari) would you choose? Since many of you won't know the game, I'll explain them briefly below. Reason: Yosuga Yosuga is the way of the "strong", or the skilled in general. The talented are the only ones qualified to be righteous and have the right to make the laws and impose them on the weaker or dim-witted. This is a state of constant evolution and revolution through conflict. Every individual hones its own skills to secure a place in a pecking order that determines the fate of the entire population. This always goes at another's expense however. Some have more because others have less. Mankind knows poverty because it knows wealth. Yosuga, much more so than any of the other Reasons, incorporates both regard for individuality and regard for society in general though. It is ever-shifting and never in a state of boring stasis, as chaos is its nature. See also: Darwinism Reason: Musubi Musubi has an eye for individual thinking and feeling; it is the Reason where the Self is absolute. You may choose to refine your own personality, skills or identity in general, but you may just as well relinquish them. The world is one's own isolated playground, a personal paradise which may be shaped at will but which does not incorporate interaction with other such individuals, neither harmony nor conflict. Musubi is the way of solitude; it has no community spirit whatsoever. It is a state of personal freedom where one can do anything without consequence. You cannot harm others, nor can you help them. See also: René Descartes Reason: Shijima Shijima is the way of unity. The Reason of Shijima is a rational one where individuals are cogs in a machine or bees in a hive. There is only society. No one is better or worse than any other. It is a state of collective thinking where the Self is almost completely ignored. It is also the way of law and order where everything is at peace and harmony. The concept is one of stillness and oneness. However, Shijima leaves little room for change. There is no destruction and no creation. It is utterly stable which may be both its blessing and its curse. See also: Nirvana
Not really. It deals with philosophy more than with the game itself really. At least that is what I hoped it would.
(1) I made this thread a few days ago. Learn to read a date kthxbye. (2) Then inform a mod. Backseat modding doesn't really help anyone, now does it? On-topic: I picked Shijima. A world of harmony and implied perfection has no need for change and is better off maintaining its stable condition. Which would offset Shijima's supposed biggest flaw.
