PAX West 2019 is a celebration of video games and their power to tell incredible stories, and what could be more rewarding than exploring how those stories can terrify, aggravate, and alienate you to the Read more…
On Episode 8 of our podcast, we ask: how can difficulty tell a story?
Full video of With a Terrible Fate's 2017 PAX West presentation.
How Dark Souls committed an act of genius by building a world where Dark Souls IV is impossible.
Nathan Randall's theory of control schemes in video game storytelling.
FromSoftware has transformed a shameless cash-grab into something else.
With a Terrible Fate analyzes the changes in "Majora's Mask 3D" that make it a different story than the original.
In my analysis of the notorious "Dark Souls," I argue that the game is frustrating and rewarding for exactly the same reason.