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Opinion: What Super Mario Galaxy's Rosalina Shows Us About Storytelling

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2008-05-08 16:00:32 by Douglas Wilson in GameSetWatch
...undervalue the fundamentals Super Mario Galaxy serves as a reminder that with little more than proper timing, placement, and aesthetic synergy gameplay and story can be used to amplify each another, thereby transcending the sum of their parts Phrased differently, I can't help but feel like gameplay purists are much like the "grown-ups" that...
 
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Kojima cries out for context

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2008-05-12 20:41:39 by Thom Dinsdale in That VideoGame Blog
...undervalue the original idea, and the same goes for MGS4 The next time I interview in America, I will just say MGS4 is the best, THE END!. It is shameful for a Japanese man to speak so blatantly, but if I dont, things like this can happen Because of the heated rivalry between the console manufacturers, a lot of recent videogame journalism has...
 
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Column: The Amateur: What Is Wrong With Fun?

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2008-07-23 08:00:42 by andrewd in GameSetWatch
...undervalue fun? This is the flipside of the search for Citizen Kane : we associate fun with juvenilia instead of serious purpose, childhood dreams instead of adult aspirations, the clumsy, awkward-limbed gracelessness of youth that we stand apart from in later years Ironically, as game players and critics, we are the best position to write...
 
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