Status RandomArc Dec 18, 2025
Finally got around to watching the trailers from Game Awards, including the one for Divinity.
My first reaction to the trailer was that it was...something, though I'm not really sure I enjoyed it 😕. The level of butchery & prolonged suffering (with an orgy in the foreground no less) was really over the top. I read a follow-up …
Finally got around to watching the trailers from Game Awards, including the one for Divinity.
My first reaction to the trailer was that it was...something, though I'm not really sure I enjoyed it 😕. The level of butchery & prolonged suffering (with an orgy in the foreground no less) was really over the top. I read a follow-up article in which the studio said they were being intellectually respectful (not 'shocking'), but I think that's just intellectually dishonest. I'm no prude, but the extreme close-ups of gore were clearly meant to leave a impression and their remarks seem like an attempt at post-hoc justification, assigning thematic intent to material that was clearly designed to provoke attention.
My second reaction was that I was surprised The Game Awards green-lit that for the show. They've always had glow-ups for games with various degrees of violence of course, but if you gotta run an actual red-band trailer warning that something is definitely not for kids on a show you know has very large underage audience, maybe you shouldn't run it.
