Zonghang Zhou

In Papers, Please, a guard named Sergiu Volda falls in love with a woman from Kolechia, Elisa Katsenja. The couple seeks to reunite in Arstotzka, but she lacks the required documents. Sergiu asks me, an officer working at the border, if I can let her pass the checkpoint, and I accept his request simply because I don’t want to add more frustration to this already gloomy world.

According to Johnnemann Nordhagen, narrative design is “where game design and storytelling meet.” In the case of Watch Dogs: Legion (2020), the point is to incorporate the theme of resistance into an enjoyable interaction. This time, with the introduction of the Play-As-Anyone system, almost every person we meet on the street can be headhunted as a member of the resistance movement.

Many years later, set upon by thugs and the infected, you will remember the day when Dylan Thomas penned a poem for his sick, dying father. You cannot imagine that the air of resistance and defiance of death, together with the feelings of sorrow, hope, unfulfillment, passion, and a thirst for life, could be revived by your epic adventure in an alternative post-apocalyptic scenario. At first glance, you are the opposite of moribund Mr. Thomas.