[glangdale]

That's just stupid. The Nazis, and Dracula, in case you haven't noticed, are the villains of their respective pieces.

Deciding that people who cut up women are in fact pretty fascinating and charismatic dudes "who had their reasons" is not exactly a new, intriguing setting to explore, unless you're a sophomoric ghoul.

In the media we are drowning in handsome genius-level IQ serial killers, as opposed to the sordid idiots that they are in real life. Thanks, no. There are a lot of thought experiments we could do; strangely, we seem to constantly come back to this one.

[VladTheImplier]

It's a genre that keeps fascinating people who like that genre - what possibly twisted mind could do such horrible things? It's indeed an often taken and explored trope of fiction, certainly not for everyone. Also all of the Mafia themes: So many of the media on that hides the gruesome reality of recruiting people out of poverty to push them into a never ending circle of violence, with notorious killers that tortured their victims in much fashion like jack the ripper. (Think Richard Kuklinski, whose death count is without a doubt much higher than Jack The Ripper) And yet many of the fictional books, series and games portrait the Mafia as being about honour, family and pride. It's a fictional world that if made well enough is interesting to explore.

Probably that game wouldn't have been for me either as I despise torture porn akin to saw. But that doesn't mean, that this sort of fiction is inherently bad. Tasteless for sure, yet in a genre of a grotesque deep dive into a parallel universe where the gruesome and grotesque is justified by a mysterious, higher cause.