April 14, 2015 Eric Swain External Sources ‘Valiant Hearts’: The Unneeded Narrator This week I look at an unremarked upon aspect of Valiant Hearts: the narrator. Valiant Hearts is one of the big shames of 2014. Not in that it is a shameful game, just that it is a shame it fell short of what it was actually capable of. It seems … (This post is lost beyond this point.) 'Valiant Hearts': The Unneeded Narrator » PopMatters | more
March 30, 2015 Eric Swain External Sources Revisiting The Great War We continue our look at last year’s indie games with Ubisoft’s Valiant Hearts. I really like this discussion. I come out very coherent and make a lot of good points. Everyone does. We talk about the war and war in general as exemplified as a thing unto itself. We discuss the concept of identity from the nationalistic to the individualistic. We talk about the end of rationality and larger cultural forces that Valiant Hearts is playing with given its subject matter. | more
