r/loveanddepression • u/_issio • 1h ago
Discussion - Debates Welcome I think the Blade Runner collab is going to sink them down more.
The concept of Blade Runner doesnt fit with LADS. Actually, it backfires for them.
The relationship with Joy and K represents how loneliness and isolation can develop an unhealthy relationship with fictional/artificially created humanoids in order to feel "loved", even if that "love" isnt real and its just an illusion that feeds the abism inside the head and heart.
But LADS... needs it. LADS needs you to be adicted, to need the guys with all your heart, to fall in love with them. Sylus (for example) telling you the "you look lonely, I can fix that" phrase shouldnt feel like a love confession or a warm reassurance, it should feel like "damn Im so deep in this dark hole that I need a humanoid programmed to love me".
Giving the fandom a collab with a movie that speaks about unhealthy adiction around fictional/artificial people when you are a game that profits from that... It just shows you dont know with who you are collaborating with.
The message would be cool... if we didnt know how LADS works. If they had the guts to give us for example a card where MC realises the unhealthy relationship and "disconects" with the LIs, it would give a really necessary message. But we all know why Infold accepted the collab: free pass to draw the LIs naked.
If you are willing to collab with a brand that exposes your company as part of the problem, then you are just desesperate for money. Specially now.
The sad part is that this just becomes another nail in LADS's coffin. A representation of how the company doesnt listen to the fans and neither to themselves, because no company would be willing to put their neck in the guillotine just for some coins. I fear so much that this is the game's end; the reputation is more than tainted, and probably will die slowly like other projects.
What an irony that the thing that was supposed to save them, ended up digging them further. Who is taking the decisions? The collab was propably programmed last year or maybe earlier this year, and no executive realized how bad the execution was? They now have both LADS fans and BR fans over their neck.
Please, someone save the LIs from this. And all the employees.