Mythic Mind Games
af Andrew Snyder
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55 - Is Choosing From a Script Still Freedom? The Stanley Parable
55 - Is Choosing From a Script Still Freedom? The Stanley Parable
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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 Snyder, Ph.D., alongside friends from the Fellowship.
Listen on your own, then continue the discussion in the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership
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- 55 - Is Choosing From a Script Still Freedom? The Stanley Parable · 49 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/is-choosing-from-a-script-still-freedom-the-stanley-parable-mythic-mind-games-ep-55/ The Stanley Parable offers you freedom…
- 54 - Why We Grieve Characters Who Never Lived · 1 t. 14 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/grief-in-video-games-mythic-mind-games-ep-54/ Video games do not merely distract from sorrow. Through time spent with…
- 53 - Red Dead Redemption 2: Arthur Morgan, Ivan Ilyich & Memento Mori (revisit) · 32 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/red-dead-redemption-2-arthur-morgan-ivan-ilyich-memento-mori-mythic-mind-games-ep-4/ Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan and…
- 52 - Video Games and the Psyche: Agency, Anxiety, and Upbuilding · 31 min.Video games are not only amusement. They are structured existential experiences: forks that press agency, anxiety, identity, desire, and failure on a real self, whether the world…
- 51 - Facing Fate in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth · 1 t. 8 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/facing-fate-in-final-fantasy-vii-rebith-mythic-mind-games-ep-51/ Final Fantasy VII Rebirth asks whether Remake's defiance of…
- 50 - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Trauma, and Untapped Depth · 43 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/advent-children-mythic-mind-games-ep-50/ Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a visually striking fan-service film that…
- 49 - Final Fantasy VII Remake: Reimagining, Sequel, and Fate · 55 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/final-fantasy-vii-remake-my/ Final Fantasy VII Remake is less a straight remake than a reimagining that often plays like a…
- 48 - Final Fantasy VII: Grief, Consolation, and Recovery · 1 t. 19 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/final-fantasy-vii-grief-consolation-and-recovery-mythic-mind-games-ep-48/ Final Fantasy VII is a story of grief, consolation…
- 47 - Outer Wilds: Stories and Music at the End of the Universe · 1 t. 3 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/outer-wilds-stories-and-music-at-the-end-of-the-universe-mythic-mind-games-ep-47/ Outer Wilds asks what stories we tell and…
- 46 - Final Fantasy Tactics and Demonic Revolutionaries · 22 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/final-fantasy-tactics-and-demonic-revolutionaries-mythic-mind-games-ep-46/ What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be…
- 45 - Why Video Games Repay Philosophical Attention · 45 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/why-video-games-repay-philosophical-attention-mythic-mind-games-ep-45/ Outer Wilds had to wait. Nearly a year into Mythic Mind…
- 44 - Chrono Trigger: Time Travel, Lavos, and Childlike Wonder · 59 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/chrono-trigger-time-travel-lavos-and-childlike-wonder-mythic-mind-games-ep-44/ Chrono Trigger is the SNES all-star package…
- 43 - Red Dead Redemption: Honor, Vengeance & John Marston · 56 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/red-dead-redemption-honor-vengeance-john-marston-mythic-mind-games-ep-43/ Red Dead Redemption (the original) is a focused…
- 42 - Forgotten City: Truth, Ethics, and Religion · 32 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/forgotten-city-truth-ethics-and-religion-mythic-mind-games-ep-42/ David and Andrew dig into The Forgotten City beyond the…
- 41 - Expedition 33: Art, Grief, and Sub-Creation · 1 t. 23 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/expedition-33-art-grief-and-sub-creation-mythic-mind-games-ep-41/ As we discuss Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we touch on…
- 40 - Skyrim DLC Chat: Dawnguard, Dragonborn, Vampires, Miraak · 1 t. 44 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/skyrim-dlc-chat-dawnguard-dragonborn-vampires-miraak-mythic-mind-games-ep-40/ Skyrim's Dawnguard pits rebuilt vampire hunters…
- 39 - The Story of Skyrim: Dawnguard & Dragonborn · 9 min.Two Skyrim expansion story overviews in one episode. Watch Dawnguard: https://youtu.be/k-FEFvAcT44 Watch Dragonborn: https://youtu.be/3wKIrE8yjLU --- Dawnguard --- Skyrim's…
- 38 - Skyrim Chat: Civil War, Dragonborn, Talos, Northern Mythos · 1 t. 48 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/skyrim-chat-civil-war-dragonborn-talos-northern-mythos-mythic-mind-games-ep-38/ Skyrim's base game puts a prisoner on the path…
- 37 - Oblivion's Shivering Isles: Mantling Sheogorath and Walking Like a God · 1 t. 34 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/oblivions-shivering-isles-mantling-sheogorath-and-walking-like-a-god-mythic-mind-games-ep-37/ In Oblivion's Shivering Isles…
- 36 - Skyrim and the Northern Mythos: Dragon, Doom, and Northern Courage · 13 min.Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/skyrim-and-the-northern-mythos-dragon-doom-and-northern-courage-mythic-mind-games-ep-36/ In this presentation, originally made…
