I read a lot, watch plenty and game my fair share, and there is one concept that I’ve always found the most fascinating: Dual Worlds. From The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with its Light and Dark Worlds and His Dark Materials with its infinite realities to The Longest Journey’s Arcadia and Stark, I don’t think this concept will ever stop fascinating me. You already saw a variation on the subject with the premises for Crows and the two I published yesterday.
But there is a sub-set of that concept that I admit fascinates sometimes even more, and it’s one I haven’t seen done outside of Japan, where it’s perhaps done to the point of nausea and with some stellar showings, such as Log Horizon, Sword Art Online, Overlord and .Hack. Continue reading Genres of Fantasy – Trapped in a Game