The Ballad of Gay Tony: Difference between revisions

In contrast to [[The Lost and Damned|''The Lost and Damned'']], a gritty and hardcore account of life in a biker gang, ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' shines light on arguably the most glamorous place on earth - the celebrity nightclub scene. [[Luis Fernando Lopez|Luis Lopez]] and [[Gay Tony|Gay Tony Prince]] are the two main characters struggling with, as Rockstar Games says themselves, "the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price". Being in debt to gangsters, Luis and Tony are barraged with the temptation to sell out their beliefs and even each other for money - their beliefs often taking the symbolic form of their shared nightclub, [[Maisonette 9]]. The duo surprisingly turn their noses at some substantial opportunities ([[Yusuf Amir]] franchising them, or [[Cloe Parker]] bailing them out), but are heavily tempted and will even abuse each other's trust for others ([[Ray Bulgarin]] buying them out, [[Mori Kibbutz]] having a high-stakes bet, [[Rocco Pelosi]] threatening them, and Tony himself resorting to fraud). At the end of the game Tony and Luis are still a team, successfully erased their debt and tell Yusuf Amir they won't franchise, leading to the moral that loyalty to "family" (blood or otherwise) should not be sold for all the money in the world.