Explore all of With a Terrible Fate’s articles analyzing the stories of video games, as well as the philosophy of video-game storytelling.
A close look at a character who lives by the clock, in a world that lives by the clock.
What is the difference between playing "Majora's Mask" on a stationary console and playing it on a portable console?
In this piece, I analyze Skull Kid as a character, and question whether he ought to be forgiven for his actions.
I apply the theory developed over the course of the series thus far in an analysis of the iconic line, "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"
Discussing a Happy New Year, and analyzing the Happy Mask Salesman.
In this post, I take a first pass at articulating the rationale behind my approach to "Majora's Mask," and what I am ultimately after with this tack of video game analysis.
Given the analysis I have offered of the Song of Healing, how can we account for the fact that Link cannot use the song to heal Skull Kid / Majora?
A first pass at what Darmani and Mikau can teach us about heroism in Termina.
In the first of three posts about the Song of Healing, I argue that Deku Link offers us unique insight into video games as an aesthetic object.
I model Termina and Link through Buddhist philosophy, and move towards explanations of masks and their Salesman.