More on Video Games as Art

It's been a while since I've posted anything, but I aim to do so more often from now on. Anyway:

There's an article on the new york times website talking about the art of video games, I'm mentioning this because it puts forward something that I've been thinking about lately and that's video games enable you, the player, to explore/interact with a world instead of watching someone else explore which is what we do when watching a film. I think it makes it more of an emotional if you provide input to the experience. It's an obvious point but I don't think I really put this forward much on my video games page.

Here's a link to the article

The New York Times: Game Theory: A Playwright on the Art of Video Games

Lelouch can see the light, Light can't

I watched Code Geass for the first time a few days ago and it's brilliant. But after watching I also realised that the lead character Lelouch Lamperouge is what I wanted Light from Death Note to be. Light at the beginning of Death Note is a nice school student who's good at everything he does. However once he gets the Death he practically goes insane with power almost immediately. Later on there's no inner conflict with himself, once he goes over the edge he doesn't even bother trying to get back up. Granted once he disowns the death note he goes back to his old self hinting that there's still good in him. However once he gets his memories of the death note back he goes back to his insane self. It feels like the good exists in a completely separate personality to the bad.

Lelouch Lamperouge from Code Geass

Light Yagami from Death Note

Lelouch on the other hand is constantly presenting inner conflicts where his good and bad "personalities" exist as one throughout the whole of the series. This means I can understand him more easily and it makes him more real as a character. Because of this I wish Light was more like Lelouch who despite doing "questionable" deeds is someone that I can constantly root for

You will say that Lelouch has won against light