How Video Game Mechanics can be Characters

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This video essay is about how video game mechanics can be characters or personified in some way. It goes into topics like how a normally abstract mechanic in a game can be characterized in some way and have be diegetic.

Credits for Certain Footage:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C...

Chapters:
00:00 - Personification of Game Mechanics
03:10 - Should the Sheikah slate have been a Companion?
05:27 - How Dead Space make's its HUD Diegetic Immersive
06:18 - Can Certain Diegetic Elements Actually Hurt Immersion?
08:17 - Outro

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