A Misunderstanding of Lores Role in a Souls Game
What lore can do is provide some historical explanations of why something is the way it is now. But don’t force lore to exceed its role in the game.
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Dark Souls 3: The First Flame Ignited?
But I suspect Miyazaki takes another approach. He understands the story as a whole. And the mechanical elements of play must satisfy or make sense of the bigger picture. Or those elements don’t belong. And because Miyazaki is back in the development saddle, I expect good things from Dark Souls 3.
Read More…Teasy-Treats
Chasing after video game achievements is no better than being a rat in a maze. Some secret placed in some dank corner of some RPG world, finally unlocked, gets you a virtual crumb of cheese; now, go get another, while people watch; more rats join the maze–Gamerscore, Trophy Level–more crumbs of cheese gained; everyone turns […]
Read More…Why I Read Books; Or, How I Kicked the Hyperlink Monkey Off My Back
It wasn’t long ago, I became disturbed by my online reading habits: I was skimming through text, plucking out keywords, and not really digesting any of the information I had just looked at.
Read More…Video Game Review Scores Are Garbage
You can’t miss them – video game review scores, that is.
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