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TopicIn Defense of Octopath Traveler's Story (spoilers for OT, CT, and FFVI)
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08/22/19 11:06:41 AM
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some pretty cynical responses here so far, as expected. oh well! I'm sorry the game wasn't satisfying for you. Also this:

TotallyNotMI posted...
"There's a lot of story, you just have to imagine it" is certainly not a take I've ever heard before.


isn't what I'm saying. I'm not saying "there's a lot of story." I'm saying that what is there inspires people to fill in the blanks and invites players to co-write the story. Again, if you want a story handed to you, like a film, then sure, it doesn't do that. you can argue that this inherently makes it bad or lacking, but that's not my approach.

this doesn't excuse any and all games with "bad stories." there are games that take this approach and fail (I'm thinking of Saga Frontier in particular).

finally, there are a lot of games that force feed players rigidly construed bad or boring stories - I'd rather have a spartan approach that encourages imagination than something like this.
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