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Featured Articles
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Why You Must Play Tales of Hearts R 389 Times
Tales of Hearts R’s fairy tale is an activity that bonds all real and fictional entities of the Tales of Series with one source…
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How Majora’s Mask Teaches Us to Connect With All of Ourselves
By exploring Majora’s Mask through the lens of ego state therapy, we learn how Link overcomes trauma and outgrows the moniker of “Hero of…
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Time’s Arrow: Chester Burklight in Tales of Phantasia
In Tales of Phantasia almost 30 years ago, Chester Burklight taught us why the most important character in a story is the one shut…
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Dymlos & Dein Nomos Teach You All You Need to Know About Free Will
Tales of Destiny and Tales of Vesperia tell two halves of one sword-themed lesson: how to act freely by empowering the stories of others.
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Tales of the Abyss, Kabbalah, and Gaming as a Spiritual Act
The esoteric mystery of Tales of the Abyss gives us the gift of a mystical experience in the simple act of playing a video…
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Forms of Life: Reading Xenoblade Chronicles 3 through Wittgenstein
Only through the lens of a philosopher at war with himself can we understand a game at war with itself.
Recent Articles
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Join With a Terrible Fate for a Discussion of Hero’s Purpose: Episode Six with its Creator!
With a Terrible Fate sits down for a second live conversation with the creator of Legend of Zelda: Hero’s Purpose, this Sunday!
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Why You Must Play Tales of Hearts R 389 Times
Tales of Hearts R’s fairy tale is an activity that bonds all real and fictional entities of the Tales of Series with one source…
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How Majora’s Mask Teaches Us to Connect With All of Ourselves
By exploring Majora’s Mask through the lens of ego state therapy, we learn how Link overcomes trauma and outgrows the moniker of “Hero of…
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Join With a Terrible Study for a Lecture on Bosses at PAX East 2024!
From Pyramid Head to Ganondorf to Sister Friede, unlock new ways to love and hate bosses in With a Terrible Fate’s lecture at PAX…
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Time’s Arrow: Chester Burklight in Tales of Phantasia
In Tales of Phantasia almost 30 years ago, Chester Burklight taught us why the most important character in a story is the one shut…
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Dymlos & Dein Nomos Teach You All You Need to Know About Free Will
Tales of Destiny and Tales of Vesperia tell two halves of one sword-themed lesson: how to act freely by empowering the stories of others.
Podcast
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Celebrating & Analyzing Zelda’s Character Ahead of Echoes of Wisdom
Get situated & psyched to crack Echoes of Wisdom with a wide-ranging philosophical retrospective analyzing Zelda across the series.
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Podcast: PS5 Pro and Technologies of Storytelling
What can the PS5 Pro teach us about the rich, myriad relationships between evolutions in console development and innovation in storytelling?
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Podcast: Can Normative Inquiry Become Gaming’s Next “Lore Analysis”?
Could storytellers like Miyazaki push players’ motivations beyond crafting timelines—all the way to crafting theories of value?
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