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Farah Mendlesohn

Motorville & the Portal-Quest

Rhetorics of Fantasy in Ni No Kuni

May 21, 2014Michael Hancock

The issue of whether a videogame should be studied as a game or a narrative has, to put it mildly, been done to death. In fact, even saying that it’s been done to death has been done to death. So let’s skip past all that to a more interesting question: what does narrative theory have to offer game studies, and vice versa? Continue Reading →

Essay Farah Mendlesohn, Michael Hancock, Ni No Kuni

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