With a Terrible Fate Podcast Episode 1: Pressing Start

The following is an episode of With a Terrible Fate’s weekly podcast discussing video-game storytelling from all angles. Find all episodes here.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of With a Terrible Fate’s podcast exploring the storytelling of video games from every angle. We press start on this very first episode, introducing ourselves, the publication, and the concept of the podcast.

Further, we ponder the review discourse surrounding Returnal, the personal and cultural significance of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 as a work of literature, and the implications of an economic shift towards “games as a service.”

• Main Story
  • 00:03:42 Meet Aaron Suduiko
    • Bio & work on WaTF
    • “The Role of the Player in Video Game Fictions”
    • Original theory of Majora’s Mask
    • “The Missing Soul Mate in Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch“
  • 00:17:17 Meet Dan Hughes
    • Bio & work on WaTF
    • Now Loading… the Video Game Canon!
    • Understanding Ocarina of Time through the lens of the monomyth
  • 00:26:13 Meet Stefan H. Simond
  • 00:40:54 Meet With a Terrible Fate
    • About With a Terrible Fate
  • 00:46:52 What to expect from this podcast
• Side Quests
  • 00:50:00 “I’m struggling with Returnal, and I play Dark Souls to relax” (Gene Park)
    • “What Makes a Successful Souls Successor?”
  • 00:59:40 A tribute to NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139
    • Comparative analysis role-playing dynamics of NieR Gestalt and The Man in the Iron Mask
    • A speech about using NieR to better understand the identities of your fellow gamers and friends
    • How humanity in NieR derives from the player’s real humanity
  • 01:07:34 “The Industry of Landlords: Exploring the Assetization of the Triple-A Game” (Alexander Bernevega, Alex Gekker)
    • The Philosophical Justification for FromSoftware’s DLC

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