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Welcome to the podcast home of With a Terrible Fate, your first and final source for literary studies of your favorite video games. Subscribe for a range of accessible deep-dives into the storytelling of specific video games, as well as the theory of video-game narrative more broadly. Find all our written, audio, and video content, along with options to support us, at https://linktr.ee/withaterriblefate.
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Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
The flavor text of EarthBound tells a story you might have missed. This week, Aaron and Dan chat with fellow video game analyst Max Gorynski about the new article in his ongoing analysis series, A Comprehensive Theory of EarthBound.
Later on, we discuss Nintendo's announcement of the Switch OLED model, the value of hard copies, and the transformative potential of treating video-game-story analysis as a metagame.
- Main Story
- 00:07:36 EarthBound's Flavor Text (with Max Gorynski)
- "Why EarthBound’s Flavor Text Tastes So Good," Max Gorynski
- "Understanding Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts II," Dan Hughes
- "What Can Magic: The Gathering and JRPGs Learn from Each Other? [PAX Online 2020 presentation]," Aaron Suduiko, Dan Hughes, and Max Gorynski
- "Want to Learn How to Design Sidequests? Play Majora's Mask," Aaron Suduiko
- 00:07:36 EarthBound's Flavor Text (with Max Gorynski)
- Side Quests
- 00:38:43 "Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350," Tom Warren
- 00:49:31 "A copy of the original Legend of Zelda video game sold at auction for almost a million dollars,"Kelly McLaughlin
- 00:56:23 Video-game-story analysis as a metagame
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