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Warframe's Content Islands

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 Warframe's narrative is fun, beautiful, and stunning in its own way, but it has a wide variety of diseases infecting its systems. As opposed to Destiny's narrative issues, which I covered not to long ago, Warframe suffers from a different problem, being that its narrative and gameplay experiences often contradict one another. Image taken from warframe.com/1999 Warframe suffers from content islands, an issue that many have described time and time again. Content islands are sections of "content" or game experiences that are distinct from other gameplay systems. Often, these experiences have little or nothing to do with other aspects, or even the main "meat" of the game. To best explain how this impacts the main themes and idea's of Warframe, we have to describe what those themes are, which I believe can be best seen within the main quest "The New War" The New War: How We Are All Connected. A united front is formed between three of the major fact...

What Is Destiny 2 Trying to Say?

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 Front cover for Destiny 2: The Final Shape. Pulled from MobyGames Destiny has been going on for a long. As such, it tries to a lot of things. I will attempt to analyze Destiny 2. themes, stories, what questions it asks and what commentary it makes (or rather tries to). We first have the base game: titled Red War. Within this story we see out character lose everything, their power, home, and friends. They are displaced by a military faction who destroys their home, just like some country that's been in the news The player character then goes through a religious arc. Exploring the nature of "the light" and the traveler, gaining power through their faith and their understanding of it. They meet a new ally, named Hawthorne, a leader who takes care of outcasts. The region, named "The Farm" acts as a home base. We could analyze the meaning of calling it the farm, its ability to provide, function as a home as well as producer, and the idea of fleeing a city and seekin...

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