in your Fraternal epicLaunching Thursday, November 9 on Switch, Mario and Luigi sail on a boat-shaped island. This floating place, which also constitutes your base camp, is slowly acquiring a crew. New faces emerge, warehouses are set up in which to trade and even a fishing place appears. With time and comings and goings, this mobile headquarters to which we return after each exploration seems more and more useful, more and more familiar, more and more welcoming. The serenity and security of a home, but that accompanies us to the threshold of the next adventure. If this is the first time in a mario and luigiIn fact, it is a common but effective motif in video games: the ship.
The term is among the first to enter the vocabulary of video games. But since Space war! (1962), which summarizes it with green lines on a black background, the ship has become more complex, both in its representation and in its role. A powerful structural element, it feeds both the narrative imagination and the mechanics of the game, because unlike the town or the bonfire, immovable places essential to allow the player to breathe, even mentally, the container, equally protective, follows us even inside. more hostile environments. Whether spatial or maritime, it represents not only a comma in history, but also, thanks to its mobility, a true link.
In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) for example, it is necessary to know the ocean to be able to plunder it. Between two infiltration missions, traditional in the series, the player maneuvers the Rooka building that will follow us until the end of the adventure. And navigation sequences are not an accessory. They are even long and it is better to plan your routes on the map before riding the waves to the rhythm of the songs of our faithful crew. HE Rook He thus becomes a true extension of the protagonist, from whom he almost steals the spotlight. Like any playable character, he needs to be upgraded to make him more formidable during the numerous naval battles that punctuate this journey.
HE NormandyIt does not protect the player from the expanses of the sea as far as the eye can see, but from the vacuum of space. The iconic ship of the trilogy. mass effect (2007, 2010, 2012) can be studied longitudinally and transversally between two field excursions. However, this is not just a glorified mission selection menu, but rather a place for sociability: by introducing our colorful teammates, the sequences on the ship allow us to discover the stories of the people who are at your side during skirmishes. HE Normandy thus transforming these secondary roles into brothers and sisters in arms.
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