![]() ![]() Other games weave the letters and messages into the gameplay. In Nier Automata you find the bodies of other fallen players that have a customized message left on them when they met their end. Similarly, games like, Dark Souls and Demons Souls enable you to leave messages for other players to help them with tips. Games like Subnautica, offer the ability to leave time capsules for others, that include a handful items, a short text message and a screenshot. With a little guidance it can be a lovely way to introduce children to the skill of letter writing, as well as engaging with other players online without the usual bad language (although that can happen here too). ![]() They can also, of course, also read messages and notes from other players. These games offer players the chance to write a note and then place it in the game world for others to discover. There are some online games that encourage communication much more like writing a letter to someone. ![]() Online games are often about immediate communication either spoken or typed in the heat of battle or survival. ![]() In video games, we step into other bodies so we can better understand our own and those of the people around us. In travel, as Andrew Soloman says, we go somewhere else to see properly the place where we have come from. More specifically, to use body therapy language, games offer us a chance to discover the inviolability of our bodies, personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination. Whether this is into the awkward teenage years of Mord and Ben in Wide Ocean Big Jacket, the grandparent-escaping Tiger and Bee in Kissy Kissy, the fractured heartbroken body in Gris or the haphazard movement of Octodad we have a chance to reassess our own physicality and how we respond to and treat other people's physicality. Stepping into the shoes of a vulnerable, small or endangered character can help us understand for a short while some of what it is like to be someone else. This is not only an enjoyable way to escape the reality of daily life but a chance to reflect on and understand ourselves, and our bodies, better. Whether we step into the powerful frame of a trained marksman or brave adventurer, while we play we have a different sense of our physicality. Video games offer an opportunity to inhabit another body. ![]()
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