World of Warcraft’s focus on story over lore, on character-driven drama over worldbuilding, has never been more conflicted than it is in Shadowlands. Shadowlands is presented as… Read more “A Story Is About Characters – Looking At The Biggest Failing of Shadowlands Narratively”
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A Spoilerriffic Look At What The Core Premise of Endwalker Means
(Spoiler alert – there’s a lot of FFXIV spoilers in this post, just in general but specifically for Shadowbringers as a whole and the full patch cycle… Read more “A Spoilerriffic Look At What The Core Premise of Endwalker Means”
The Chains of Domination Story Thus Far, And The Lens of the News
This is a post that I wanted to let percolate for a bit after the news of the California DFEH lawsuit against Activision Blizzard broke, although I… Read more “The Chains of Domination Story Thus Far, And The Lens of the News”
My Incomplete List Of Loose Plot Threads I Want To See In Endwalker
(Spoiler alert – all kinds of FFXIV spoilers for content from 1.0 through to 5.55 are here, and speculation on the Endwalker trailer and details we have… Read more “My Incomplete List Of Loose Plot Threads I Want To See In Endwalker”
The Nature of “Retcons” And The Way World of Warcraft Tells Stories
Warning – this post has spoilers for the post-Sanctum raid cinematic in WoW, some light discussion of Grimoire of the Shadowlands, and some spoilers for Final Fantasy… Read more “The Nature of “Retcons” And The Way World of Warcraft Tells Stories”
All Heart, Little Thought – My Time With Final Fantasy XV
In November 2016…well, a lot was going on. One of those things, however, was the release of Final Fantasy XV. Fashionably late to the (then) new-generation consoles,… Read more “All Heart, Little Thought – My Time With Final Fantasy XV”
The Journey Towards Redemption Becomes Ever Clearer – Sylvanas and Her Fable
This week, Wowhead had an interesting post about the contents of a new WoW book – Folks & Fairytales. The book is interesting in that much like… Read more “The Journey Towards Redemption Becomes Ever Clearer – Sylvanas and Her Fable”
A Much Friendlier WoW Lore Post – The Actually-Good Execution of Jaina’s Post-Wrath of the Lich King Story Arc
The last time I wrote here, it was a long, ranty affair about how Sylvanas Windrunner’s character arc in World of Warcraft is…not great! Stylistically, I’m not… Read more “A Much Friendlier WoW Lore Post – The Actually-Good Execution of Jaina’s Post-Wrath of the Lich King Story Arc”
The Long-Form Storytelling of World of Warcraft and Where it Fails – My Definitive Sylvanas Redemption Rant
WoW is trying to be a lot of things to a lot of people at this point in time. It wants to remain the pre-eminent PvE MMO,… Read more “The Long-Form Storytelling of World of Warcraft and Where it Fails – My Definitive Sylvanas Redemption Rant”
Rampant Speculation On The Future of Shadowlands Part 3 – The Remaining Lore After This
In part 1 of this series, we focused in on the expectations and speculation of what I predict we’ll see in 9.2 and 9.3. In part 2,… Read more “Rampant Speculation On The Future of Shadowlands Part 3 – The Remaining Lore After This”
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