‘Destiny 2’ tackles the original’s biggest problem: storytelling

The first time I played the original Destiny, I felt frustrated and annoyed. It was a fun online, co-op team shooter but the game’s narrative was insultingly shallow — a poorly written space opera where a vague “darkness” was out to destroy a mysterious entity called the Traveler that somehow thrust humanity into a golden […]

What Remains of Edith Finch is an effective experiment in storytelling

Enlarge / Your first view of the teetering Finch house doesn’t really do justice to its cluttered, circuitous insides. The average big-budget video game story is a sprawling power fantasy quest focused on saving the kingdom/world/galaxy, told in fits and starts amid dozens of hours of often repetitive puzzles and challenges. As far as narrative […]