Skin Deep lays bare a truth about the immersive sims we anoint to holiness: Beneath a veneer of grizzled assassins and sunglassed corpo agents, beyond the virtues of player choice and non-linear level design, is a genre by and for goofballs.
The allure of a hackable computer or pickable pockets is catnip for troublemakers—a license to orchestrate pranks on NPCs who can't send you to the principal's office, and laugh in their faces. Immersive sims, in all their glory, are the sacred virtualization of shenanigans, and Skin Deep is the patron saint of slipping on banana peels.
