I've noticed sometimes, especially in video games, that some parts of
sentences that would normally be written in hiragana is instead written in
katakana. For example, I've seen "です" written as "デス" and even words being
split into hiragana and katakana "pieces" such as "ください" written as ”くだサイ". So
why would this be used? Could it be just random and discretionary, or could it
convey something specific to the reader e.g. in/formality?
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Seemingly random use of Katakana?