The Memory Card .35: A leap of faith

Acting on instinct – it’s something we all do in our daily lives, but very rarely are allowed to do when playing a videogame. Yes, many videogames offer numerous sequences that require the player to think on their feet and have quick reflexes, but how many times are you required to act wholly on a feeling of instinct?
Instinct is a complicated unlearned biological response that sometimes determines a person’s morality, so maybe that is why it is hard to implement into something as relatively simple as a videogame. I may not be a fighter in real life, so my natural instinct would be to just grab the princess and run. What if I had no interest in battling and defeating the final boss? Unfortunately, videogames don’t offer this kind of complex choice. There has to some kind of predetermined structure or a game would just be chaos, right?
While this is […]

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