Evan Favreau
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“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.”
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from a series whose beautifully androgynous male characters often appear to be some kind of heterosexual stress test.”
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure.”
― The Line of Beauty
― The Line of Beauty
“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered a successful game, whereas a game with superb gameplay and a laughable story can see its spine bend from the weight of many accolades—and those who praise the latter game will not be wrong.”
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
― Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
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