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4. What Happens With Alice - Detroit: Become Human

Detroit: Become Human is a complete clusterf*ck of racially charged imagery and emotion-baiting iconography... but somehow it still works as a story.

Providing you can "hand wave away" the fact Quantic Dream are cheaply cashing in on as many recognisable elements of human suffering as possible, there is one very effective takeaway in terms of its portrayal of humanising any minority/"alien" group or entity.

Done by revealing right at the end of the game that the young girl Alice is actually a child android created to replace her "father"'s deceased daughter, for the player it makes you realise androids can be just as human as someone born of flesh and blood. For character Kara, it highlights how the burgeoning love and motherly emotions she's developed - that we'd call human processes - can be felt towards another, regardless of their biological makeup.

Love, care and empathy between two beings transcends the labels we put upon different species - going so far as to posit that android sentience and free thought can be held to the same standard as whatever "humanity" even is.