CursedHope: A Retrospective

This would become of the last RPG Maker VX games I would make, and focus the rest of my life on writing--which at first was going to be graphic novel scripts, because ... well I mostly read graphic novels and manga for years. It wasn't until later ... yea the only novel I had recently read was Neuromancer.

Prose used to do weird things to my brain that made it hard to concentrate, when text is so tightly packed together (it's part of why I like lyricalness and poetry.)

I had a thing for the name Amy ever since I first watched Sailor Moon. Always had a kink for blue haired nerdy girls. In either case, this was the summary of that game:

The gradual decrease of authority in law enforcement by turning to computers, creates a situation where computers control who gets arrested, and who does not. The lack of a job for forensic scientist has supposedly caused their to be more skilled serial killers on the streets. However, how much is the prevalence of serial killers actual truth, or simply government propaganda in a massive witch hunt.

The main character, having used to work for the government, knows that a lot of the people accused of being serial killers, are simply people accused of things like thought and sex crime. The main character then decides that he will terminate accused serial killers before the government can get to the punch, and end prevent their torture by "ending their suffering. The main character ends the accused suffering by lethal injecting them so the government can not torture them.

The main character must contend with the choice of either terminating her, and following through with his plan of action. Or, he can help her finds ways to hack into the system, and avoid detection herself. The main character decides to help her hack into the system, and gets dragged off for torture while she slowly merges into the machine.

Amy will have to deal with others issues, such as if someone were to actually attempt to hack into her own system with a computer virus. She must also still try to save her boyfriend from being tortured by the government, and deal with an angry survivor of her boyfriends reign of terror. His name is Jabber-knit Jared.

Jared needs to find a way to get the funds to pay for the hacker. He must also avoid law enforcement suspicion himself. But, what if Jared could actually find a way to work with law enforcement? Can Jared find a way to get law enforcement to be on his side? 

 

Jared's own mental health is gradually decreasing, and his friends are slowly beginning to wonder if her might actually be a serial killer himself. He tells his friends he's going to be on vacation for a bit. Meanwhile another survivor emerges that has her own personal vendetta against the hero. Her nick name is hopper. Hopper is a young woman, who murdered her father and caught the attention of the main hero.

She has her work cut out for her, because she must save her boyfriend, who she slowly questions the merits of attempting to rescue him. She must prevent as many people from being tortured by the government as possible. And she must also defend herself from Jared, who has in mind to stop her from saving her boyfriend, so he can let the government torture his foe.

Will Amy be able to talk Hopper out of pursuing her revenge against the hero, if not out of a conscience, but simply because what Jared actually proposes is more logical, even if Amy doesn't agree with it. Or will hopper continue to be headstrong, and go head first into saving the main hero so she can specifically torture him. Amy finds out that a small group of "Accused serial killers" were nearly murdered by the main hero. However, whether any of them are actually telling the truth is called into question.

Amy must decide whether to believe the stories of Jared's friends, or to go ahead and plow into her quest to save as many many people from being tortured by the government as possible. She reaches the location where the hero is being held, and saves another accused serial killer who is also a girl. She must figure out whether some of the people are actually falsely accused, or actually killers themselves.

There is a major risk that in fact some of them really are killers. Security sends out their robots and cyborgs to come and attack her, and she manages to hold them off, until she starts to feel a little bit funny. She realizes that she did not adequately fend Jared off, and he's continuing to have his computer hacker plant viruses into her her cyborg body. Amy saves the main hero, and then dispatches Jared, and the computer hacker. However Hopper decides revenge isn't worth it. The main hero asks Amy, "I thought you weren't a killer."

Amy responds, "I also thought you weren't a killer."