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The Little Things in Games

Image By Flickr User: JBLivin
Image By Flickr User: JBLivin

How often is it that the little things in a game end up being what make or break it for us? Those little details that push a game or its characters beyond being simply entertaining into becoming something memorable and endearing. They’re aspects of the game that don’t get the attention of the more important mechanics such as overall gameplay and story, and it often takes us a couple of play-throughs to even properly notice them. Once they are noticed and understood, couldn’t it be accurate to say that it would be hard to imagine a game leaving as much of an impact without them?
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