Story and Games

[lazyfatbum]

ICO is a gameplay design with a story thrown on it to make it more interesting. It's still nothing more than something like LoLo, which is a proven game formula from the 8-bit days. The character driven diaologue between the characters is cool, but the story is rediculous and only works in the context of a video game where a story can manifest itself as long as there's gameplay to back it up.

And like I said, it's not my interpratation it's Lucas himself that said that he wanted to bring the stories of the bible in to Star Wars when he first began it in highschool. What I said is that Darth Vader could be viewed as Jesus or as God with Luke being his son. Being that the film series has obvious religous overtones it doesn't take rocket science put those two together. And yes, as I also said, there are many mythos where a child is born in an immaculate conception but in every one of those cases it is a hero born of a God, like Hercules for example. But Lucas is using the Bible in his hidden meanings and context. So again, Darth Vader, seeing as how he was born in an immaculate conception could be a nod to Jesus in the story of the bible or be viewed as an all powerful God fighting his son's ideals of a perfect world, the son being Jesus. There are many passages in the bible where Jesus fought God on principals and ideals, that could translate very well to Star Wars. It was one of the films (as a series) we had to study at film school.