Tag: adventure games

• Games

  Solitary movement through a hauntological palimpsest

  

  Aloy moves alone through her world. Geralt in the Witcher series is constantly bounded and motivated by his social relations and obligations, despite his fundamentally ronin status; in contrast, although the protagonist of Horizon Zero Dawn is provided by her back-story with a social context that explains who she is…

  July 17, 2019
• Games

  Flawed immersion

  

  Having bought a Playstation 4, the first games console I have ever owned, so that I can play CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 when it comes out, I’ve taken the opportunity to catch up with the same studio’s The Witcher III: Wild Hunt.  I enjoyed the second instalment of this…

  June 9, 2019