[Warning] This episode contains explicit language and explicit themes. Listener discretion is advised.

The cousins have discussed video games a lot on The Broken Shelf but they have never gone in depth about what makes video game writing unique and powerful. Even if it is a media in which you play and experience, the levels of immersion are different because of the limitless potential for styles and game play. Whether it is a beat-um-up, a RPG, or even a sports game, a story that let's you experience the move set of a character has to have a great story behind it, or at the very least, the connection and motion to make you want to move them. Spangar and Danny explore the negatives and positives or video game writing, what makes a great antagonist and protagonist, the problem with bigger is not better in RPG stories and maps, and how something as simple as "Mario" has such a long lasting longevity. Get ready for some stories from the past and some expectations of the future.

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