Metroid Prime has been making gamers love reading since 2002
One simple yet effective narrative trick is responsible for making one of Nintendo's best universes feel so lively
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Exposition is a fickle instrument in the writer’s toolbox. Too little, and your audience struggles to properly comprehend the scenes playing out before their eyes. Too much, and they drown in a sea of information without the necessary emotional weight to ground it. “Show, don’t tell” has become a cornerstone of scene writing for this reason - If you show just enough for the audience to fill out the rest themselves, you simultaneously avoid the issue of overburdening them with information while …
