Lore Question: Does the Public Know

[gen3king]

In a newspaper clipping we see an actor quit cause a puppet attempts to attack them unless I am mistaken. Does the public know the puppets are alive, or do they think they're actors in suits. If so, why would they leave these living things alone so long?

Also why was there an invincible stone puppet near the end of the game? Did I miss something? This raises another question of, if these things can be made of stronger material, why was this not utilized in the war as potential super soldiers? Make one out of metal and what are they gonna do to that? Nothin'.

The story is fantastic and maybe these questions are answered elsewhere but I never found said answers.

[Hex: Pocket Sand]

The stone puppet is actually one of the statues that was in the plaza earlier, it comes to life. Though your guess is as good as mine why it's different from the rest

[creature feature]

If you're playing on the highest difficulty, one of the statues where you get the 'chain cutter' also comes to life. But honestly there are at least a dozen dead/inert puppets around the map that clearly get up after you progress the game.

Personally I was under the opinion that this world was running on "Who framed Rodger Rabbit" rules and the puppets are just considered lower class/tools. Although considering how they seem to corrupt/fail to properly learn/remember, I'm guessing teaching them to kill would have devastating issues. I don't think they could figure out the Geniva convention and having civilians not be shot would be iffy at best.

[gen3king]

Originally posted by creature feature:

If you're playing on the highest difficulty, one of the statues where you get the 'chain cutter' also comes to life. But honestly there are at least a dozen dead/inert puppets around the map that clearly get up after you progress the game.

Personally I was under the opinion that this world was running on "Who framed Rodger Rabbit" rules and the puppets are just considered lower class/tools. Although considering how they seem to corrupt/fail to properly learn/remember, I'm guessing teaching them to kill would have devastating issues. I don't think they could figure out the Geniva convention and having civilians not be shot would be iffy at best.

Fair point but given how cynical the masses are it would be possible, hell, I imagine if puppets were used and there were "accidents" that could explain WHY there was cynical about the war