Examining the stories that make games great
Released in 2013, Evoland is a game with two layers of story-telling. The first layer is that of a ‘standard’ fantasy adventure game, but this is in fact only part of a second ‘main’ layer: The story of how fantasy adventure games have evolved over years of game development…
Read More Story Analysis: EvolandIntroduction On Friday, I received an email. This email was from Activision Blizzard, telling me that at the end of September, Destiny 2 would be leaving Battle.net and heading off to Steam. This is, of course, part of the process of Bungie breaking ties with the publisher to make its own way as an independent […]
Read More Playing With (Void)Fire: Returning to Destiny 2Anyone and their dog can write Top X Lists for their favourite games. I will go right ahead and say it; I don’t like this kind of content very much. It can get really click-baity, which makes me squeamish. However, if needs must, as they now do, then I would rather at least try to make it interesting, and hopefully this slightly different take on the concept does that…
Read More 5 Story-Focused Games I Haven’t Played… YetGame universes can be huge, and if you don’t know where to start can be very daunting to jump into. Where to Start? aims to give you a spring board into some of Lothari’s favourite game universes, starting today with that of The Witcher…
Read More Where to Start? The WitcherWe’re here at last! Welcome to the final Story Analysis for 2007’s original Assassin’s Creed, where we will look at the last act of the story, Chapters Six and Seven…
Read More Story Analysis: Assassin’s Creed – Chapters Six & SevenToday we analysis Chapter 5 of Assassin’s Creed, which brings the game’s second act to a close. We’ll look at how it does it’s job effectively, though not without stumbling blocks…
Read More Story Analysis: Assassin’s Creed – Chapter FiveIn this post, we continue our Story Analysis of 2007’s Assassin’s Creed, looking at the weird and wonderful Chapter Four, where Ubisoft really turned things up to 11…
Read More Story Analysis: Assassin’s Creed – Chapter FourIn this post we continue to pick apart the story elements of 2007’s Assassin’s Creed, picking up with Chapters Two and Three to finish off the first act of this action-adventure epic…
Read More Story Analysis: Assassin’s Creed – Chapters Two & ThreeStory Analysis will look at how stories are told through video games. In our first series, we’ll look at 2007’s Assassin’s Creed, starting with Chapter One today…
Read More Story Analysis: Assassin’s Creed – Chapter OneIf there is any gaming franchise that has most impacted my life, then it is without question Assassin’s Creed. On its release, I very quickly fell very deeply in love with it. Even so, I’ve only played its first two instalments, and whenever I think about picking it back up again, something stops me. Today, I’d like to examine my love-hate relationship wit the franchise in more detail…
Read More My Love-Hate Relationship with the Assassin’s Creed Story
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