#one take
#one take
by Amr (@siegarettes)
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God of War makes a big deal of the fact that the entire game is framed in one continuous take. Comprised of an extended shot, uninterrupted by cuts, the long take–or oner–has gained a certain reputation in film due to the technical difficulty required in capturing it. In an episode of the video essay series, Every Frame a Painting, Tony Zhou described the long take as something “critics and film students get raging hard-ons for”, and yeah, there’s definitely a masturbatory quality to it. So I can see why a game in the AAA space, which often deeply values technical achievement, would pitch God of War’s long take as yet another technical feat it’s mastered. I mean, sure, you did a 2 hour film in one take, but how about a 30 hour game?