...they are very deliberately creating certain perceptions and cultural associations....
I think they are deliberately playing with perceptions and cultural associations for narrative purposes, which is a very different thing and a common literary device. Of course we will understand their full intent better once we have played the game.
*Edited for punctuation translating from a word doc.
I'm not upset, Scarlet isn't just accidentally provocative beyond reason.....if it was just on thing maybe Larian could play ignorance....but it's not, it's not just the title that accidentally happens to feature a man and a woman who accidentally happen to be holding hands and accidentally happen to walk through chaos and it all accidentally happens to have a billion shades of sexual innuendos while it all so conveniently but by complete accident happens to parallel a major story of a core belief in western culture in every way without missing one detail....etc. etc. etc. There's too many accidents there for them to be accidents.
Next up Larian need to thread carefully because they explicitly promised something they've implicitly promised a hundred times more. And it being for narrative purposes that are unknown to us can blow up in their faces big time....the last thing they need to do is play "AHA!! I got you!!" with specific promises. The absolute worst thing they need to do is play bait and switch with a feature taunted, teased and promised many times over. That would be like BioWare trying to excuse their Mass Effect 3 ending as artistic vision and choice after they broke a very established promise made many times over.....they lied and their reasons and excuses sounded like big steaming piles of bull****.
You keep trying to excuse every separate piece by itself and that might work if there weren't so many of them. It's like finding pieces of a dead horse and you argue that the leg there could be of a donkey and maybe the tail is from a cow but how many pieces need to be found before it's undeniably a horse? We've most definitely found the bloody head too. And yes, the title too has got everything to do with all of it....it's just too convenient and matched by too many accidents.
Anyone can twist nonsense all day every day and talk about a pile of dirt like a grand miracle of nature and so on and so fourth but nobody will be fooled because the bottom line is that bull**** is bull****.
