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 […]
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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 […]
Why Mad Max: Fury Road is a masterclass in visual storytelling
We called Mad Max: Fury Road a cult classic when it hit theaters back in 2015, but what I find particularly special about the movie now is how well it holds up to scrutiny. Even though there are long stretches without any dialogue, director George Miller took such care with the film that, the audio […]
