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Video Game Analysts’ Journey Across Japan
Join With a Terrible Fate's team in a reflection on their recent visit to Japan and how it's informed their outlook on video game stories!
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Podcast: Products & Artworks; JRPGs & Ghostbusters
On this week's game analysis podcast: what makes the difference between interactive story as art and interactive story as product?
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A Very Special Halloween Gaming Podcast
Celebrate video-game horror storytelling on Halloween with a podcast conversation ranging from Pokémon to FNaF to Silent Hill to JRPGs!
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Join With a Terrible Fate at PAX West 2023: “Is Pokémon a JRPG?”
With a Terrible Fate invites you to a PAX West 2023 panel on Pokémon, JRPGs, and what we do when we talk about video game stories!
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Tales of Symphonia: “Tell Us About Your Homeland”
A case study of how the storytelling of a linear game can open its world.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake is the Template for “Grown-Up” JRPGs
Final Fantasy VII Remake's storytelling makes JRPGs more accessible to adults—along with a new postgame model, "The Chadley Interpretation."
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The Horror of Code Vein is You
The hidden achievement of Code Vein's fusion of Dark Souls with JRPGs is that it quietly turned you, its player, into a monster.
Podcast: The Drawing Board
The Drawing Board: Authors and Auteurs in Video Games
What do NieR: Automata and Rear Window have in common? Find out in our latest podcast episode.
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The Real Architect of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is Plato
One of the world's oldest thinkers gives us a surprising view into one of the world's newest forms of storytelling.