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Hand-drawn or computer-generated animation.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a woman.
FMVs are pre-rendered videos used in place of real-time graphics. Using FMV was an attempt to make videogames look "more like movies", sometimes with CGI animation and others with live-action actors speaking directly to players. The downside is that FMV requires a lot of disk space, and live-action FMV in particular can look terrible by comparison.
Video games developed in Japan but based on Western IPs.
A cutscene that is viewed through the eyes of the protagonist or some other character. POV stands for "point of view".
Common in old first person adventure games, the small pre-rendered movie that plays full screen to take the player from one static pre-rendered background to the next.
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
The limitations of early gaming hardware, especially in the 8-bit and 16-bit days, made animated story sequences impractical for many games. One popular alternative was to convey the story through a series of still images, often with text and music alongside them.
A sub-genre of adventure games, visual novels are a form of interactive fiction that usually have very little in terms of gameplay but often focus more on extensive storytelling, character interactions, decision-making and branching narratives.
Video games based on Japanese IP's that were developed by Western studios.
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