{"id":7378,"date":"2023-03-05T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2023-07-19T03:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T10:41:46","slug":"deus-ex-hells-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/7378","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex: Hell’s Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so I’m on to Hell’s Kitchen (or a small fragment of it, anyway), on the west side, just south of Central Park. This is traditionally a poor immigrant neighborhood, and is depicted as such in media, but in reality it’s been mostly gentrified for decades. It even goes by the name “Clinton” now to try to shed the old name’s slummish connotations. I recall the Netflix MCU Daredevil<\/em> series was set in Hell’s Kitchen (because you basically couldn’t do otherwise, the character is as strongly bound to the place as Batman is to Gotham City), and used the destruction wrought on the city in the first Avengers<\/em> flick as an excuse for why the neighborhood is back to being as run-down and dangerous as it was in the 1970s. Deus Ex<\/em> gets the same effect from the general breakdown of American society.<\/p>\n

Here, I think I’ve finally given up on trying to save absolutely everyone’s life. I really kept that up longer than I should have; the main reason I kept at it in the Battery Park segment was that Anna Navarre, one of the player character’s pointedly evil cyborg colleagues, kept insisting on congratulating me on losing my inhibitions about killing, and I didn’t want to let her have that satisfaction. 1<\/sup><\/a>Ultimately, it turns out there’s a known bug that sometimes makes her say that even when she shouldn’t. Ah well, I know I’m doing a pacifist run even if she doesn’t.<\/span><\/span>