
Often, these pieces are out of order chronologically, and it’s up to you to put together what happened and when. The idea of finding notes is a common one in video games, sometimes replaced by audio or video recordings, telling a narrative in pieces. And as you work your way through the castle, scattered notes help you piece together your past and what, exactly, led you to this place. It doesn’t explain why, but insists that this is the only course of action left to you. The note tells you to descend into the depths of the castle and kill a man named Alexander.

He then wakes up on the floor of a hallway and the game begins.Īs you wander through the castle, you eventually come across a note written by yourself, revealing that the amnesia was self-inflicted, caused by a drink your character consumed. By the end of the intro, he can barely manage to utter his name. For example, the video game “Amnesia: The Dark Descent” begins with the main character stumbling through the halls of a castle, struggling to maintain his memories of who he is and where he lives. One of the most common disjointed chronologies occurs in stories where the main character has amnesia. Although I’ve never seen the movie, I love the idea of a plot that is told out of order, that is pieced together bit by bit.

It starts at the end of the movie, and basically plays things out in reverse order.
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But what if the end is at the beginning? That’s what “Memento”, a movie by Christopher Nolan, did. That’s how it goes right? Every story has them.

So I wanted to expand upon that idea.Ī beginning, middle, and end. I mentioned how I, personally, enjoy stories with disjointed chronologies. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Last month I talked about “In Medias Res”, a Latin term meaning roughly “in the middle of” and referring to when a story begins with some action that usually occurs later on in the story. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

