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lightwarrior78 posted...

I do recommend the first 3 games. After that mileage may vary.

And yeah, the thing about DN is that Light and L are super smart but have the morals of small children (or many emotionally stunted adults). Light sees having done evil as punishable by his hand. No middle ground. No excuses. No redemption if you were still serving your sentence. And above all, he can never be wrong about his judgement.

L sees death outside of due execution as pure evil and can't see that Kira was doing what police seem unable to in curbing crimes, and that like many a religious person espouses, maybe a hand of god is necessary to get people to behave better.

And both take actions well beyond doing good, but about proving they're right and how smart they are.

That is sooooo true! L and Light are like the furthest extremes of "The Law".

In that I can see there very existence could be a systematic metaphor that Light was necessary but that duality is a scale balanced even in the greatest extremes, a judge of man such as Light manifests his own "L" to judge him creating extreme opposites with equal flaws etc. Guess I'm ranting about the binary brother system philosophy from The Matrix again lol.

Rika_Furude posted...

I mean yeah. It wasn't entirely for a selfless purpose. He did consider himself to be the god of the new world after all and his power and actions fed his ego. But it wasn't entirely selfish either, even though it was misguided. He thought he was doing the right thing.

That is true! He very well could have become a pure chaotic force of nature. His god complex is his downfall while also simultaneously keeping him within a system of control over criminals, though being likened to a god of death he falls from his grace as a human. In the end if he had any other goal other than saving the world it would be too hard for anybody to root for him.

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