• ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    182·
    7 months ago

    I played this game and I don’t understand it, what is the point ? honestly the performance of the narrator was amazing and was my favourite part of the game but otherwise I don’t understand what the “message” is.

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    and like, who is stanley ? who is the narrator ? how come stanley can hear narrator’s voice ? if stanley is in a game and we are playing that game, then narrator should be in the game too, somehow he is in the game and not in the game at the same time ??

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
      14·
      7 months ago

      The game explores the idea of choice and structure in modern video game narratives.

      It’s presented to you in such a way that you feel like you can’t break away from the established narrative, everything you do has actually been planned and accounted for, and even intended by the developer.

    • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

      Idk it was mostly just funny because of the narrator imo. You do have a bunch of valid questions, but I guess this is more of a piece of art that leaves this up to interpretation. I remember the avhievement you get for not playing the game for 5 years, so I feel like the game was maybe trying to say something about our increasingly digital life and how that narrates our reality or something. There are mamy different endings though, so I’m sure there are plenty of interpretations

      Also I think the game was an exercise in what you can do when you choose a video game as the medium for your art. Its the first time where it was possible to let the main character defy the narrator. That would’t really work in a book.

  • NovaPrime@lemmy.ml
    4·
    7 months ago

    Not realistic at all. You’d never see two sets of innies in the same room like this

    • HoseanRC@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      7 months ago

      “Wait, why did the lights go off? Stanley… did you touch anything? This isn’t how the story work!”