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The Drawing Board: Why Analyze the Legacy of Final Fantasy VII Remake?

On a special edition of With a Terrible Fate's podcast, the team reflects on the reasons that they're analyzing Final Fantasy VII Remake.

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 months ago May 7, 2020

Read With a Terrible Fate's mission statement for their analytical series in which they explore the storytelling of Final Fantasy VII Remake.

By Aaron Suduiko, 7 months ago May 7, 2020

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories set the tone for the form and content of the series. Does it hold up as one of gaming's great stories?

By Dan Hughes, 7 months ago May 5, 2020

Donkey Kong 64 combined everything from banana-inspired controllers to rap. How did it impact the storytelling of video games?

By Chris Anhorn, 2 years ago August 31, 2018

Witches, rhyming, and one of gaming's first dynamic duos. Join us as we examine the legacy of Banjo-Kazooie.

By Jaron R. M. Johnson, 2 years ago August 31, 2018

Does Paper Mario qualify as one of the "Great Books" of gaming? Read on for an analysis of the conversation we started at PAX East 2018.

By Matt McGill, 2 years ago July 23, 2018

16 years ago, one Disney/Final-Fantasy crossover gave birth to a new series. How did the first Kingdom Hearts change storytelling?

By Dan Hughes, 3 years ago May 22, 2018

In a decade that gave us a library of games about orphans, EarthBound reminded us how important fathers are to their sons.

By Max Gorynski, 3 years ago May 22, 2018

God of War took classic Greek mythology and established a brutal lore all its own. Does it belong in the pantheon of great storytelling?

By Dan Hughes, 3 years ago May 6, 2018

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?

By Jaron R. M. Johnson, 3 years ago April 4, 2018