Let's have a look at The Witcher 3 as an example: That's usually where genres and descriptions come in. In Shakespeare's Henry V Goes To The Library, there is a scene in which Henners is chided by the librarian (played memorably by Dame Judi Dench in the most famous adaptation) for not wanting to read Charles Dickens because it is a "booke for babies".Īnd yes, it's true - you can't tell much from a game's title, and nor should you. "Shakespeare also said, "thou must not judgest a book by its title", did he not?" You are right, dear reader. You can't tell much from a game's title, and nor should you You get a bonus if your game has ever been compared to one of these - Image: Nintendo Life But you wouldn't know that those are an RPG, a puzzley visual novel, and a roguelike deckbuilder from the titles. Monster Train? Well, that sounds like a Pixar film, but presumably there's a train, and one or more monsters. Murder By Numbers? A murder mystery, featuring numbers, somehow. Why can't a game stand on its own? Why does every farming-adjacent game get compared to Stardew Valley, when Stardew Valley was copying Harvest Moon in the first place? Why are there so many card-based roguelikes on the market, and why do they all get compared to Slay The Spire? And worse still, why do some games refer to themselves by another game's name in their marketing, especially if their game is nowhere near as good?ĭragon Age Origins? That's about dragons, and possibly medieval stuff, and maybe history. It frustrates people, because it feels lazy and stupid, and I get it. This practice is frowned upon by many readers, and some journalists, too, and yet we persist in calling games " Stardew-likes", or writing about a new game by calling it a "spiritual successor" to some other game that everyone knows. He probably wasn't also referring to the somewhat common (and slightly annoying) practice in games of describing a video game by comparing it to another game, since video games weren't even invented until a few years after his death. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." He was, of course, talking about the blood feud between two warring families, and the thirteen-year-old daughter of the Capulet family wishing that her crush could be called something other than Montague so she can smooch him in the open. "What's in a name?" Shakespeare once wrote.
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