3/16/2023 0 Comments Cartoon roms 2018 for firestream![]() ![]() Earliest interactive fiction in the West originates from 1976. After all, Visual Novels were born as a genre in the early 1990s, from early text games of the 1980s, while branching fiction was introduced in the West through Choose Your Own Adventure books mid 1970s. Maybe it will surprise you to learn that history of interactive stories and story-driven games is slightly older in the West than it is in the East. So let’s see what kind of life storytelling games had in the West. Western consumers will often ‘WTF?!’ at events going on in Eastern stories, while they in turn would say ‘NANI?!’ to washed out storytelling of mainstream media of the West, trying to increasingly implement Eastern narrative strategies. Appeal of good vs evil as exemplified by Western love for superhero vs supervillain stories seems to differ from Eastern stories in which sometimes there simply are no villains (Princess Mononoke, anyone?). Many have tried to point out and explain the differences. Search ‘visual novel’ and see if you can find any which is not sporting Japanese-style (anime/manga) visuals, even if made in the West. Then there is Visual Novels, as opposed all other sorts of narrative-based games the West produced. In the West it’s a RPG, in the East it’s – jRPG. In the West it’s cartoon, in the East it’s – anime. ![]() Heck, we even call them different names! In the West it’s a comic, in the East it’s – manga. Storytelling is part of the culture and when we muse about differences between Western style narration and Eastern style narration, no one wrinkles their nose and wonder what are we talking about.Įast and West are different, right? Different history, culture, values, so of course the way we enjoy our games, comics, cartoons, stories will differ. Oh, how sweet it is to apply stereotypes and cliches. Bad cowboys wear black hats, good cowboys wear white hats. ![]()
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