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Also escapism is bad when it's to the point where it makes you lose your grip on reality.
It really comes down to what Alicia wrote in her letter (I'll paraphrase, because I don't remember the exact words) "We all believe our family deserve happiness, but yours believe only they do." Either you only believe the one family deserves a good ending, or you believe everyone does, though that will come at the expense of the one family.
and btw the inhabitants of Lumière were almost all genocided long before the possibility of choosing the end(end of act 2)
If they were only painting and weren't real, then they couldn't act any differently than how they are created to act.
Painted Verso explicitly going against his creator (Aline the Paintress') will by seeking death rather than the eternal life she has granted him proves that they have free will and, thus, sentience.
They are created beings same as you and I are. (If you follow any organized religion that believes in a supreme deity that created humanity.)
If they were simply paintings, then Painted Verso - and for that matter Painted Alicia - would never have been able to be self aware enough to seek their own destruction/ending.
All of the "painted" family members Renoit, Alicia, Verso and Alicia were painted by Aline herself as a part of her escapism.
What happens in the game if you choose the Verso ending is, morally, no different than if Yahweh, Allah, (fill in the blank) just got tired of the whole humanity experience and erased us.
Not quite.
HUMANS were...by yet another god/painter. Renoit genocided all of the HUMANS in the world. (And was in the process of destroying everything else.) The Verso ending added the Gestrals and Gladis, who are no less sentient in the game.
Uhu. And if some entity ( god, aliens, whatever) suddenly would appear on earth and tells us they created humanity so its its ok to erase us all since we are "not real" you would be
"oki doki go right ahead!".
At the point where those "created" beings become selfaware and have their own dreams, ambitions, feelings and thoughts with no outer influence they are "alive".
The origin how they came to be does not matter anymore at that point.
Also Alicia is scarred for life with a serious disability, why not allow her the comfort of living a less burdened life in an alternative universe?
?? Where is anyone criticising the game? We are just discussing the endings which has happened basically since day 2-3 after release when the first few people finished the game.
Plus there is this small problem that the "real" world is most likely "fake" too.
If you look outside the mansion windows there is nothing but fog past the mansion grounds, same in the Verso ending which is on a sunny day outside and still, everything farther then 20 meters or so away is covered in fog.
Also according to his gravestone Verso died on "December 33th 1905".
There are quiet a few indications that we are dealing with a fake world inside a fake world scenario here. Seems the writers liked Inception.
Which actually would present a nice paradox, if the "painters" and their world is fake too, why would you choose them over the canvas world?
This is a concept that isn't new to this game either.
"There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state."
-Isaac Asimov from the classic Sci Fi novel "Bicentennial Man"
The idea that created minds, in other words artificial life, could advance far enough that they have rights - in other words that they've achieved sentience - is hardly a new one.
The minds of the beings in the painting (most of them) pretty clearly desire to go on living and are clearly willing to fight for the ability to do so. That all of the people of Lumiere think (incorrectly) the Paintress is responsible for their long, slow genocide and are willing to kill her to save themselves is yet more proof that they are intelligent enough to be real, thinking consciousnesses.
Plenty of other games explore the concept that beings created by others are alive. The Geth in the Mass Effect universe for example.
I would disagree, and so would the definition of the word. Genocide, by definition is
"the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group."
That's from the Oxford English Dictionary definition of the word. Nowhere in there does it specify humans. It says PEOPLE.
IMO, people is defined by whether or not they have sentience. It is what separates killing a cow from killing a self-aware being. If an alien species made first contact with us tomorrow, they would have sentience and wiping them all out with nukes as soon as we possibly could would be an act of genocide against them.
You can call the various races in the painting whatever you want but all of them, Lumerians, Gestrals and Grandis alike all clearly are thinking beings with individual preferences, desires, goals, etc.
Edit: Or, as the post above this one says, substitute elves if you want in a fantasy setting. It would still be a genocide to wipe them all out in setting even if they aren't human.