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Story Beats: Dear Esther is Live! (Patreon)

Published:
2016-03-08 22:01:56
Imported:
2026-06

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Howdy patrons! The new video essay, Story Beats: Dear Esther, is live! This is - Jesus - my first video essay in three months. Been gone too long! Glad to be back.

Quickie reminder that I'm counting this as 1/2 of January's video. If I can keep my intended schedule, we'll have 4 videos by the end of March (let's call it mid-April to be safe), which will be 2 to count for January and 2 to count for February. Then I'll try to get both march's and April's done in April, but we'll see how that goes. Again, I appreciate your patience while I've been dealing with bullshit on my end.

As long as I've got your attention, here are some recent capsule reviews:

Thoughts on OxenfreeMy take on Oxenfree, which I enjoyed considerably more than I'd expected.

Thoughts on CibeleA brief take on Nina Freeman's little, autobiographical game, Cibele, which I referred to as "an adventure game about scheduling an internet hookup."

(More) Thoughts on CibeleMy brief take didn't end up being enough, so I posted more thoughts a few days later.

Thanks, all!

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Story Beats: Dear Esther

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Comments

Michael (Holy) Pearson (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-17 06:00 Here I thought this game was just a walkabout interspersed with very unnatural, questionably written internal monologues. No, it's actually a purgatory romp. I don't know. The purgatory thing seems like it's overdone. Probably Jacob's Ladder was enough. I wish we could get past this overblown tech-demo phase of story driven games. It's too easy to find gimmicky ways to avoid putting in the work required to have a directed story piece of media in the form of a navigable space. Ultimately you have to have human characters interacting in ways that may require a lot more work, or better collective planning and activism to achieve. The insular studio model is misfit for the challenges of this 3D medium.
2016-03-09 02:57

Michael

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what "straight male gay panic" means in the context of the last linked write-up?

Oscar Barda

I have to admit, I'm a little underwhelmed by the video compared to your usual writing I feel this was less deep and shorter than I had exepected. I'll wait for the rest of the series to come out to judge though :)