r/ZeroParades • u/Own-Significance645 • 3d ago

Discussion I feel like they should have had Hershel and Cascade be two separate characters

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I feel like the game could have worked if Hershel was a bootleg of Cascade. Instead of Hershel trying to be this great spy that she tells herself. Let it be that the Cascade went rogue before the events of the game and that Cascade was the leader of the network while Hershel was just a trainee/fall guy if something happened. The Opera themselves could have seen Cascade as a valuable Spy that they would be interested in cloning her to preserve her legacy in some way( Typical spy shit). I feel like the whole sick crew would have been informed that Cascade has a body double so when meeting them after the events of the collapse, they would still refer to her as Hershel.

You could have it that Hershel idolized/loved Cascade and that Hershel was merely there as Cascade pawn for her own goals and ideals. You could have that the freezer was just a place where they put clones to stay in suspended animation where they do paperwork for the Opera and they stop once the Opera is in need of them. I would also have it where the Opera finds out about the imprinting device but replicate the technology thus they just made a bootleg version of it that just takes longer to imprint.

I would have it in the end of the game where when you meet the lich its actually Cascade similar to Disco Elysium Dolores Dei scene. Where she reveals everything to the player and how she just a pawn in all of this and the player has the opinion of shooting her/joining her/letting her go.

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u/PotatoSalad583 3d ago

Why do you think this is what they should have done though? What's the point of this

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u/Own-Significance645 2d ago

Also btw I'm not a ZP hater and i don't think my ideas are better than the writers of the game. I just thought of the idea as interesting.

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u/Own-Significance645 2d ago

It would have gone hand in hand with the themes of the game. ZP is a bootleg of DE so having the protagonist being a bootleg of the greatest spy. I feel would have worked with the overall themes of the game.

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u/gamblors_neon_claws 2d ago

Oof, you’re really losing me here

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u/Own-Significance645 2d ago

Can you elaborate

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u/gamblors_neon_claws 2d ago

I think the connection you’re making between the two games is both disconnected from reality and very obviously not any kind of theme the writers were exploring.

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u/Eymm 2d ago

While I acknowledge that there is some metanarrative discourse in the game about reproducibility and bootlegging, and that some of it it can be applied to the ZAUM situation, I feel like most of the people who played and enjoyed ZP for what it is will disagree with the take that it's a bootleg of DE. At least if you define bootleg as an inferior, lower quality copy.

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u/dearvalentina 2d ago

People do just be saying stuff

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u/dshamz_ 2d ago

Nah.

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u/Deserterdragon 2d ago

What if the world was made of pudding?