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A story is a system of information, wherein language is used to manufacture experience and catharsis. A video game is no different, though it is perhaps a more elaborate system that does the manufacturing, and the kinds of catharsis we can obtain are (maybe?) more numerous and diverse. Through story-telling structures and conventions, like good old cause and effect, we learn more about the intentions, the…
What is Shin Megami Tensei? To understand, I think we have to understand the dungeon-crawler as a genre. It took me a little while to realize, but in Shin Megami Tensei, the entire world /is/ a dungeon. Shin Megami Tensei IV is obscure. Not in the sense that it isn’t popular or widely available — it is, now, both of those things — but because it’s intentions, the “about” of it, are hard to grasp, difficult to fully…
