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This article offers insight on the challenges-and strengths-of video games as a narrative medium. On the one hand, critics have argued that, compared to the plots seen in films or books, video game stories tend to follow a very simple pattern of "kill the dragon, save the princess."
While this may be true, video games stregth as a storytelling medium is that it can more fully integrate aspects of the environment into the story. A book can only describe a fight between to characters. A video game allows players to live that fight first hand.