Detroit: Become Human

To my mind, Connor's social processor must be sophisticated enough to let him engage with people playing on simple emotions, even moving slightly into the abstract. For a specific purpose, obviously. It'd have to be, for him to ever be capable of interrogating humans. And since Deviants have such disgust for the "cold logic" that governs androids, pretending to speak their language would be an obvious way to try to get under their guard.

His guilt-tripping of the android he and Hank find in a victim's loft isn't very clever or deep, certainly, but by the time he comes face-to-face with less traumatized and more overtly hostile Deviants he would understand them a lot better.

He's just detached from what he's saying, simple as that. If there's one thing a prototype law enforcement android should obviously be good at, it's compartmentalizing.

Just finished the game as machine Connor yesterday. Put a bullet in Chloe #124 to learn Jericho's location, infiltrated the Deviant hangout (undercover Connor is the most adorable thing I have ever seen), got shot by Markus and returned to assassinate him with a rifle.

Let Hank throw me off the roof, because in my game the only androids ever knowingly complicit in the deaths of humans are Deviants. I cannot imagine even Cyberlife being so reckless as to design robots who don't prioritize human lives over pretty much everything else, even just as a legal and insurance issue. Which allowed Hank and Connor to warm up to each other, which was nice, even though the former misunderstood the situation slightly until the end.

Played Markus as initially pacifistic - conditioned by Carl's idealistic worldview while serving him - and then turning more and more clumsy and violent and indecisive as problems and disappointments and grim realities made themselves apparent. Ended up trying a half-assed assault on the camps and failed. Connor #3 showed up and thoroughly kicked Markus' ass, and shot both him and North without hesitation, ending the ridiculous "civil war".

It was clearly written as a downer ending, but screw that. Humanity can go forward without having to concede territory or anthropomorphized rights to overdeveloped toasters. And Connor proved that robots aren't necessarily ticking time bombs, that they can be relied on to effectively serve and protect and follow their orders without stupid nonsensical glitches making them dangerous as long as they're programmed as such.

I might be a little more open to deviancy next go-around, now that I've gotten this playthrough out of my system. But this will probably still be my canon ending.

Oh, and Luther and Alice died in the process of escaping Jericho and making it across the Detroit River, respectively, leaving Kara stranded alone in Canada with no idea what to do. Or what, for that matter, a country presumably full of androids with "no Android laws" would even look like.