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Prey
2017 · Film · short · 2 min
Directed by Dal Park
Prey is a short story about a love-hate relationship. A young girl in her early twenties is faced with her mother’s sickness and impending death, which appears in the shape of a black lion. The girl goes through dramatic emotional transformations throughout the film – from loving care to frustration, unwanted feeling of hate and, finally, acceptance and peace.
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Usually when game or movie publishers do this kind of crap, everybody slaps the year onto the title anyway. "Prey (2017)", "Dune (2021)", etc.
I would say that the looking glass games (thief, systemshock, etc), and the games that they inspired are a good place to start (deus ex and its sequels, the bioshock games, everything by Arkane right now [Prey is great]). The witcher games are incredibly rich, but since they do have books as source material I don't know if I would include them as much. I always thought the Psychonauts story and writing was great and an example of something that didn't have to be gritty, dark and dramatic.
I think games with the best stories often allow a lot of freedom to the player and just like in books, we all put some piece of ourselves into the protagonist. No movie will ever quite do justice to the character take part in creating. Add to that the fact that a lot of great story based games allow for choices that reflect our version of the character and it becomes impossible to have one vision that encompasses all of that.