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You’ve met With a Terrible Fate, the next generation of video game theory. Every Sunday, we contemplate various aspects of storytelling in video games, take academic deep dives, discuss controversial subjects of gaming culture, and review games beyond the question of whether you should buy them or not.
If you wish to support us, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/WithaTerribleFate.
***WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS HAUNTED!*** The characters in the first game we discussed were haunting our podcasting software, so please excuse some small technical difficulties throughout the episode and a rather abrupt kickoff on account of a lost introduction. We jump directly into spoilers for Inscryption, a game that ought to be played without spoilers, so we strongly recommend only listening to this episode after playing! (Or, skip ahead to 45:30 to pass over this discussion.)
In a belated installment of the With a Terrible Fate podcast, Aaron and Dan travel back in time to Mother's Day 2024 in a discussion ranging from the horrifying, to the metafictional, to the maternal, to the personal. We kick things off (0:00:00) with a long-overdue debrief of Inscryption following Dan's completion of it and agree that it's something you simply have to discover for yourself—as well as being something that you absolutely must discuss with others who have experienced it! Later (0:45:30), we contemplate portraits of some memorable mothers from our gaming lives. Finally (0:52:54), we wrap things up with an exploration of how single-player gaming can include a range of rich, intersecting, real-life ritual practices, which can equip us to game more mindfully if only we can attend to those rituals in our conscious mind.
Be warned (again!) for thorough spoilers of Inscryption, along with some smaller structural spoilers for elements of (in the motherhood section) Tales of Eternia, Tales of Hearts R, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Scarlet Nexus, Returnal, God of War & Ragnorok, and (in the ritual section) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, along with some reprised spoilers for Inscryption.
Works Referenced
Erin Waldram, "How Majora's Mask Teaches Us to Connect With All of Ourselves"
Aaron Suduiko, "Why You Must Play Tales of Hearts R 389 Times"
With a Terrible Fate
You’ve met With a Terrible Fate, the next generation of video game theory. Every Sunday, we contemplate various aspects of storytelling in video games, take academic deep dives, discuss controversial subjects of gaming culture, and review games beyond the question of whether you should buy them or not.
If you wish to support us, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/WithaTerribleFate.
