Detroit Become Human: A Robot's Heroine's Journey
In a world set in 2038, Detroit Become Human is a story about a society that has adapted to intelligent service robots, taking on a vast spectrum of roles, spanning from construction workers to serving as a replacement for children. The game starts at a police investigation, where you play as an intelligent robot (named “Connor”) who is tasked with negotiating with a rogue android who has broken through their program and has taken a human child hostage. After this initial interaction, you, the robot, are assigned to a human detective partner to solve why there is a sudden uprise in “deviant” robots. The game's premise is entirely a choose-your-own-adventure, but unless you deliberately try to change the story, it follows a similar path. Through different experiences, the robot you play as, Connor, becomes increasingly unstable until he becomes a rogue android. Detroit Become Human is very representative of Victoria Schdmidt’s Heroine’s Journey of finding self-identity in all three...