What Measure Is a Non-Human?/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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* In The German version of ''[[Half-Life]]'', the Marines get replaced with robot grunts and the scientists shake their heads instead of dying. It isn't okay to show a human being die, but all those nasty aliens can be chopped up by the dozen.

** Chalk that up to German censorship laws forbidding depiction of violence against humans - and humans ''only''.

* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', where most of the cast is human, but the lives and well-being of the two Valkyria are considered vastly more important than just about anyone else in the game. The [[Mooks|regular soldiers]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|deserve to]] [[A Million Is a Statistic|die in droves]] [[Anvilicious|because they're soldiers]] [[An Aesop|in a story about how war is bad.]]

* In the [[Dating Sim]] game ''[[HuniePop]]'', going all the way with Momo (a [[Cat Girl]]) will get the player the "Bestiality" achievement, and Kyu will troll you by saying, "Bestiality, huh? Hey, not judging though. Gotta do what you gotta do." Still, [https://huniepop.fandom.com/wiki/Momo#Controversy Momo] actually seems pretty human, and isn't the only nonhuman in the game you can romance, so such trolling seems unwarranted.