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You might’ve heard the fancy term ludonarrative dissonance, which describes something a lot of modern games suffer from. It’s the way games often tell stories that don’t fit within their gameplay loops. How a character can take 20 shots to the head in gameplay, and then die from a single wound in a cutscene. Or how in the story, characters can act like people who would never do the things they do do in gameplay.

This conflict doesn’t actually ruin a game most of the time. But the pictured game is one which is renowned for showcasing what can be done when gameplay is used as a narrative device, reinforcing rather than conflicting with the story. Using every element of a game in concert.

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    7 months ago

    And that’s why I never won Darkest Dungeon

    I also never learned how the sparing mechanic works in Undertale because Toriel is a two-faced hypocritical abuser and when she told me I could defend myself from violent monsters by choosing nonviolence I thought she was full of shit.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=l7NkXn60hnA