Well, I finished Yiik. I'll probs save more complete thoughts for elsewhere or maybe my own thread bc, to cut a long story short, I really hated it. I do wanna ask the folks in this thread a genuine question though.

What do you all make of the Elisa Lam parallels?? Bc honestly, I think they're really gross. Even if you accept that the whole thing is a self-critique of both Alex and the creator for his/their behavior towards the Elisa Lam case, I think that rings pretty hollow bc of Sammy showing up right at the end, well past the point where we know Alex's behavior is destructive to all of reality, and she like.... thanks him for his dedication to finding her and... it feels, really gross. Given Alex as a stand in for the creator, at least in this regard of his reaction towards a missing persons case, it kind of feels like... the creator giving himself a pat on the back for making this whole story based on Elisa Lam, as a sort of tribute? But, no, it just feels really gross bc. That was a real woman who killed herself.

I really struggle to see anything positive in that, and it's frankly the worst thing in the game imo. The fact the game never drops this, even framing Sammy as Alex's soulmate, is just... really gross imo. Do people just have a totally different read on this? Is this a thing fans of Yiik also otherwise dislike but ignore in favor of what they do like? Or, do people just not know about Elisa Lam anymore?