it's not an invalid or at all unprecedented choice. it's a kind of heavy stylization that insists on doing things on its own terms, injected into an extremely expensive interactive experience where financial stakes are such that more conventional characters and performances are expected.

Anyway I think this is the final push to finally play D.S and experience him unrestrained. To go back to a previous point, I'm really curious to see what he'll do given the chance to make a movie of his own, who will come first, He himself? his ego? His audience? The investors?

In this we agree, it's true for everybody, now apparently more than ever, whatever narrative a creative wants to build they are always hampered (and it's not necessarily always bad thing, or at least it didn't used to be) by the need to at least make the money it cost back