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Star Wars Zero Company lets squad failure tell the story

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By Søren Ahrensborg Kamper
| Smash Jump
Narrative choice has trained us to look for the machinery. A dialogue wheel appears. Somebody asks whether the prisoner lives, the town burns, or we say the heroic thing, the cruel thing, or the suspiciously flirtatious thing. We choose and wait for the story to react. That model works, and the return of narrative-choice games made a good case for why it is finding new life. Star Wars Zero Company is interesting because it often moves the choice somewhere else.
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Star Wars is at its Best when the Playable Fantasy is Smaller than the Franchise

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By Søren Ahrensborg Kamper
| Gaming Cypher Verified
Star Wars has a problem most game developers would probably love to have: there is simply too much of it. Give a studio the license and the temptation must be enormous. Add lightsabers. Space battles. Tatooine. Bounty hunting. A cantina. Crafting. A speeder. A famous droid walking through the background. And while we are here, perhaps the player should also decide the fate of the galaxy before dinner. The strange thing is that many of the best Star Wars games have historically done the opposite.
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Warum Star Wars gerade dann interessant wird, wenn ein Spiel bewusst weniger will

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By Søren Ahrensborg Kamper
| PlayFront
Star Wars besitzt ein kleines Luxusproblem. Die Galaxis ist so groß, dass man theoretisch fast alles in ein einziges Spiel packen könnte. Lichtschwerter, Raumkämpfe, Schmuggel, Speeder, Kopfgeldjagd, offene Welten, Entscheidungen, Crafting, Cantinas, Droiden, Jedi, Imperium, Unterwelt und irgendwo sicher noch ein Kartenspiel, bei dem jemand sehr ernst erklärt, warum die Regeln von Sabacc diesmal wirklich korrekt umgesetzt wurden.
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