The last pattern might be what some people mean when they criticize the game as "woke" - though one can reasonably argue that the disconnect between a character's establishment and description and their actions in the story is a common problem with bad writing in general. Add to this an emotional setup that is more confusing than anything, and the same pattern of "described as competent and righteous but acts naively and morally questionable" for many other characters in the game, and it is very easy to completely lose your connection to the events. We are now doubly disconnected from her as a player avatar. I think it is also much easier to identify with someone who stumbles into danger through no fault of their own rather than someone who actively jumps into it - think of jurassic park 1 versus 3.īut then, in-game, despite her preparation and nominal competence she behaves exactly as the person that got stranded on accident. This is already a bad match for the central gameplay in subnautica, which consists of starting naive and gradually learning more about your environment to master it. Robin, on the other hand, is set up as someone who not only planned their trip (to a planet that is at this point at least somewhat studied), but apparently does this exact thing for a living. Both the player and their avatar then gradually learn more and become more competent, and in the end go from a frightened amateur to the savior of the planet. We know almost nothing about him, and his main attribute is that he is exactly as overwhelmed by the siutation as the player likely feels.
In Subnautica it is really, really easy to identify with the protagonist. I am sure I am not the first person who had this thought, but I wanted to give it its own thread after going back to the original Subnautica having played BZ and noticing how glaring the difference is:
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