![]() ![]() Miss Mass is barely visible in the story and I don't think that's the only way to tell this story. I don't think noir needs to be inherently misogynistic, and maybe that's naive of me. All you need to know about her is her curves. She is the axis of this whole thing, and she is barely spared a glance. You can catch a glimpse of her in the Chapter Select screen as she sits, helpless to her inevitable fate. Miss Mass is only seen in memories or in posters after the game starts. ![]() This, very conveniently, strips both No-Man's agency as well as the agency of Miss Mass' husband, Golden Boy who fires the gun which triggers this whole thing! Golden Boy is winking at you from within almost every chapter, his profile greets you at the end of each chapter. The innocent stag is slaughtered by the greedy Female. You can draw a direct line from this to the Femme Fatale device - No-Man is innocent until he sought Miss Mass. This is Original Sin, Eve caused the downfall of Man, Grade A level bullshit. The piece of horn you retrieve from its corpse is labelled - "Fatally sought after - feminine hands wished to possess it". However, that's not the thing that's got me all het up.ĭuring the Hunt chapter, a woman kills a stag you are silently communing with. Miss Mass is little more than the femme fatale stereotype. She's Woman Incarnate, all curves, etc etc etc. No-Man finds a prehistoric Venus figurine, it reminds him of Miss Mass. I can't explain this part, revisits the Big Bang through the heat death of the Universe to save her? We'll come back to that. The husband shoots Miss Mass, and No-Man. She invites a plastered No-Man, already besotted by her lounge singing act, for a sexy rendezvous, and that sets into motion a jealous husband. Genesis Noir's invocation of the femme fatale, Miss Mass, is a singer with an apparent alcohol problem and a bad marriage. The free-form nature of the plot left me a bit confused. The noir sections dead-ended for me in some pretty straightforward misogyny. There's a structure, but there's also a lot left up to interpretation. It's also a jazz game - the "Improvisation" chapter features jazz solos, but the text and story also feels free-form. It's a noir game containing femme fatales, down on their luck schlubs. I encourage you to read it even if you haven't played the game. This essay discusses the full plot of Genesis Noir, including elements of the ending. ![]()
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