This week I played Grim Fandango Remastered. Before I answer
the question for this week I just want to say that I did not enjoy this game,
the story by itself was interesting it was just aspects of gameplay the ruined
the experience for me.
On to the question!
On to the question!
As the player, do you interact with a character or an avatar and how does this affect your involvement in the narrative?
In Grim Fandango Remastered you play as a character called Manuel "Manny" Calavera, One of
this week’s readings talks about characters, avatars, agents and the
differences between the three. After going through this article I have decided
that Manny is neither an avatar nor a character but an agent this just means
that he is unable to be changed or customized by the player,
“Waggoner proposes it as the central criteria for
distinguishing between those video game characters that function as true
“avatars,” and those which only serve as controllable “agents” for their user:
Pac-Man cannot be altered in any way by the user. He can only be controlled. His appearance and skills can never change throughout the course of the game. That makes Pac-Man an agent.”
Pac-Man cannot be altered in any way by the user. He can only be controlled. His appearance and skills can never change throughout the course of the game. That makes Pac-Man an agent.”
This fact does
not make agents less important compared to characters and avatars because they
play an important role to be recognizable icons of the franchise they belong to.
But as the player,
playing through an agents in a game make it feel like my personal involvement
means less and doesn’t affect the narrative, but ultimately the amount of involvement I have in the narrative for Grim
Fandango Remastered does not change
just because I was playing through an agent.
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