#herald
#herald
by Kieffer (@kiefferwilson)
What responsibility do video games have to report on the historical past? As a medium allowing for interactivity between the player and the virtual space, video games allow players the ability to interact with historical spaces, and become embodied within historical characters. Within the last couple of years this has been a responsibility that games have answered to. Last year (2016), 1979 Revolution: Black Friday gave players choice during the Iranian Revolution, and a couple of years earlier, Valiant Hearts: The Great War had players bounding through the relationships of World War I. Herald, the debut episodic game developed by Wispfire, is a new game focusing on the tensions between Europe and India during the 19th century. As of now only two of four episodes are released, which is what I will be reviewing.