Explore all of With a Terrible Fate’s articles analyzing the stories of video games, as well as the philosophy of video-game storytelling.
Some of the most heavily criticized elements of Fire Emblem: Awakening contribute to its narrative in surprising ways.
We asked our team: how would you describe video games to a non-gamer, and what game would you recommend as their intro to the medium?
Think the horror of Doki Doki Literature Club is a simple case of breaking the fourth wall? Look closer.
What does the DNA of a Zelda game look like? How can we extrapolate that and use it to tell our own authentic Zelda story?
Does Olimar’s adventure in a bizarre world deserve to be remembered as one of gaming’s great stories?
7 years later, everyone is still talking about Skyrim. How has it changed the storytelling craft of video games?
Explore the legacy of the time with the most criminally underappreciated story of all time.
Pong, the mother of all video games, was the mother of all video-game storytelling, too.
With a Terrible Fate chats with Zelda Universe about the origins of our site, the task of building a video game canon, and more.
The oft-forgotten game for an oft-forgotten system has more to it than meets the eye.