Tag: storytelling
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Bandersnatch Review: Brave but Boring?
I really wanted to like Netflix’s choose-your-own-adventure experiment Bandersnatch. Part of the Black Mirror series — which features standalone episodes exploring all kinds of futuristic ideas and dark themes — Bandersnatch is about a programmer in the 1980’s trying to create a video game based on his favorite choose-your-own-adventure novel. The cool thing is that the entire episode is a…
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Embracing the Surreal in “Virginia”
I recently played the Variable State game Virginia, which embraces the genre of “walking simulator” almost to a fault. Navigating a handful of environments in first-person, there is almost no exploration to enjoy; you usually have a single action you can take, which is often as mundane as opening a door. Virginia is also a narrative…
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Batman “Realm of Shadows” Review
Telltale Games has really proven its versatility lately. For a very long time — since way before The Walking Dead took off — the game studio has been creating narrative-driven games, which they release in series of episodes. The decisions you make in each episode influence how the story will play out. Most of the gameplay revolves…
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