Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Report 06: Each careful step along the byway…
Continuing my thoughts about the narrative experience of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet as I play through my game of Violet. Assume spoilers about it based on how far along I am in each post. As I get to the end of the game spoilers will be getting bigger, so be warned! I have some thoughts…
Kells: The Gospel of Columba
This week my wife and I have finished the audiobook of her historical novel Kells: the Gospel of Columba. All 24 episodes are up at her podcast Continuous Dream. It’s been a year of posting an episode every two weeks, so it’s been quite the project, with three narrators, music, and sound effects. I started…
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Report 05: Proving the Rule(s)
Continuing my thoughts about the narrative experience of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet as I play through my game of Violet. Assume spoilers about it based on how far along I am in each post. The introductory chapter of Scarlet & Violet suggested that the player choose which of the three different plot lines they should…
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Report 04: Narrative as Bricolage
Continuing my thoughts about the narrative experience of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet as I play through my game of Violet. Assume spoilers about it based on how far along I am in each post. Turns out I was wrong expecting that the difficulty of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet would scale according to my own current…
Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Report 03: Pokémon: Breath of the Wild
Continuing my thoughts about the narrative experience of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet as I play through my game of Violet. Assume spoilers about it based on how far along I am in each post. A function of narrative is to drive the events of a story forward, either to an Aristotelian climax or the more…
Museum of the Slightly Curious 