With a Terrible Fate’s weekly podcast discusses and analyzes video-game storytelling from all angles. Find all episodes here.
Within the DNA of Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby's storytelling dwells an invitation to reinterpret yourself as a player—and a person.
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire pushed the series' storytelling in a new direction by inviting its player to reconsider the meaning of rivalry.
What can Pokémon villains teach us about the value—and limits—of dreams?
How the innovation of Pokémon's modern metagame in Ruby and Sapphire unexpectedly enriched the heart of Pokémon's storytelling.
What happens to our relationships with our favorite childhood video-game series as we grow up and new games continue to be added to those series?
A reflection on an early moment in Pokémon history when a new legendary Pokémon blurred the lines between time travel in real and fictional worlds.
Pokémon Gold and Silver teach a master class in how to design a postgame that marries a sequel with the game that preceded it.
A study of the Johto region as a master class in world-building a video-game sequel.
As the number of Pokémon grew in Pokémon Gold and Silver, the trainer's chosen bond with one particular, special Pokémon only deepened.
A reflection on how Pokémon Gold and Silver presented a radical model for the "Pokémon sequel" at the height of Pokémania.