{"id":1351,"date":"2022-04-28T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/mini-review-arise-a-simple-story-an-audiovisual-treat-with-emotive-elegant-storytelling\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:48:41","slug":"mini-review-arise-a-simple-story-an-audiovisual-treat-with-emotive-elegant-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/mini-review-arise-a-simple-story-an-audiovisual-treat-with-emotive-elegant-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Review: Arise: A Simple Story &#8211; An Audiovisual Treat With Emotive, Elegant Storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arise and shine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is a platform game a good medium in which to tell a story of agonising tragedy? When the tears fall on the joysticks, is it appropriate to say, <em>\u201cNow, jump from there to there\u201d<\/em>? It\u2019s hard to see how it wouldn\u2019t be insensitive, after a heart-rending calamity, to chime in, <em>\u201cChin up! Swing on your grappling hook over that lava pit.\u201d<\/em> With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arise_a_simple_story_-_definitive_edition\">Arise: A Simple Story<\/a>, developer Piccolo took on this seemingly intractable problem and delivered a very simple solution.<\/p>\n<p>Arise, released on PC and consoles in 2019, is a story told without words. However, it bucks the trend of a vague-so-probably-profound story and provides straight-up plot and character development. It draws on visual art and music in themed levels, some static illustrations, short cutscenes, and \u2013 without expecting it to tell a whole story on its own \u2013 platforming gameplay with a time-control mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/arise-a-simple-story-definitive-edition\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Mini Review: Arise: A Simple Story &#8211; An Audiovisual Treat With Emotive, Elegant Storytelling<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arise and shine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is a platform game a good medium in which to tell a story of agonising tragedy? When the tears fall on the joysticks, is it appropriate to say, <em>\u201cNow, jump from there to there\u201d<\/em>? It\u2019s hard to see how it wouldn\u2019t be insensitive, after a heart-rending calamity, to chime in, <em>\u201cChin up! Swing on your grappling hook over that lava pit.\u201d<\/em> With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arise_a_simple_story_-_definitive_edition\">Arise: A Simple Story<\/a>, developer Piccolo took on this seemingly intractable problem and delivered a very simple solution.<\/p>\n<p>Arise, released on PC and consoles in 2019, is a story told without words. However, it bucks the trend of a vague-so-probably-profound story and provides straight-up plot and character development. It draws on visual art and music in themed levels, some static illustrations, short cutscenes, and \u2013 without expecting it to tell a whole story on its own \u2013 platforming gameplay with a time-control mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/arise-a-simple-story-definitive-edition\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}