These core sounds, which change and adapt effortlessly, allow Journey's soundtrack to rise and fall with
the natural narrative of the game.
Not exact matches
Even the
natural narrative arc
of the
game is in three acts — the early, middle, and late innings — each with its own distinct potentials and imperatives.
The connection between intellect and emotion is neat and
natural, and
Game Control is admirably free
of stilted dialogue or pedantic
narrative.
Under the sheen
of narrative games and puns and references both literary and cinematic, at the center
of it all, is a dog, Roxy Miéville, wandering the countryside, beside a lake, through a woods, a
natural world utterly transformed by the phantasmagoric possibilities
of digital cinema.
This enlightening eavesdropping is a great delivery method for the story because it not only makes you feel as though you are outsmarting your opponents, but it also keeps your discovery
of the storyline feeling more
natural and less like you're being beat over the head with the
game's
narrative.
The reason for this is that the play
of all
games generates exceptional
narrative experiences, in part because humans are
natural storytellers and construct our way in the world by means
of narratives, and in part because play is one
of our freest emotional expressions and thus inherently memorable.