The Storytelling: The Legend Of Zelda

Storytelling has evolved throughout the history of humans. The early stages of storytelling were drawings on a rock wall and developed to stories in a book. Now it’s stories in video games. Video games tell stories from saving princesses from a giant, fire-breathing turtle king to the battlefield of a war. Video games allow the audience to actually experience the story rather than just listening and allowing the listener’s imagination to create the story.

Just like stories, video games have some type of morale involved, for an example in the game The Legend of Zelda, the story is about a hero trying to save the princess of the kingdom from the evil hands of a demon. The player has to go through different trial and overcome them to reach his goal. The morale of the game is through perseverance you will be able to reach the thing you most desire. This is the same kind of story like the movie Hercules, Hercules had to overcome many different trials to be able to have passage into the kingdom of gods. Although games and stories have the same story type, games use different methods than movies to show the morale of the story. In games the player actually attacks the monsters …show more content…
Well the same way people think that because kids who play violent video games make kids into serial killers, applies to kids who learn from education games. Since kids are the next generation of humanity they keep evolving and certain things from the last generation are passed down or changed. As of now, kids of the Post-Millennial generation have a smaller attention span than the last generation. This means kids now need faster movements and quick changes in camera angles to keep kids engaged. That also means kids will have harder time to read books because of the lack in fast movements. This is where video games come in. Video games incorporate the fast movements and different camera angles to keep kids engaged, while still giving the kids the content of the