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Many ships in one bottle 0
A story is a system of information, wherein language is used to manufacture experience and catharsis. A video game is no different, though it is perhaps a more elaborate system that does the manufacturing, and the kinds of catharsis we can obtain are (maybe?) more numerous and diverse. Through story-telling structures and conventions, like good old cause and effect, we learn more about the intentions, the interiority, and the fates of various characters, whose decisions (which might be our own d...
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All the world's a dungeon 0
What is Shin Megami Tensei? To understand, I think we have to understand the dungeon-crawler as a genre. It took me a little while to realize, but in Shin Megami Tensei, the entire world /is/ a dungeon.Shin Megami Tensei IV is obscure. Not in the sense that it isn’t popular or widely available — it is, now, both of those things — but because it’s intentions, the “about” of it, are hard to grasp, difficult to fully articulate. This is because the game chooses t...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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