Mythic Mind Games

Andrew Snyder

Topics: Video Games · Philosophy · Christianity

No. 195 in Leisure▼47

Pursuing wisdom through primary and secondary worlds. Mythic Mind Games is a conversation about video games as secondary worlds. We look at story, design, and the moral imagination of play: what games train us to love, fear, hope for, and become. This is not a review show and not a strategy guide. Episodes sit with particular games and ask what they are doing to the soul: The Elder Scrolls (Skyrim and Oblivion), Fallout, Final Fantasy VII, Red Dead Redemption, Outer Wilds, Chrono Trigger, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and more, often with Tolkien, myth, and Kierkegaard close at hand. Grief, home, identity, freedom, and wonder show up here as often as bosses and endings. Hosted by Andrew...

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