The element of choice is what separates video games from every other storytelling medium. In this episode, I talk about how video games do good (and bad) choices, how developers make choices feel meaningful while still telling a captivating story, and how the Witcher 3 changed my life forever.

Katana Zero is one of the most incredible action-platformers I've ever played. But it's the game's incredible narrative that sets it so far apart from so many other games in its genre. What really makes Katana Zero one of the best indie games of this generation?

Opening sequences can be both the hardest and the most important thing to get right in a game. But while many games resort to cheap gimmicks or dull tutorials, some devs have managed to find the formula for the perfect opening sequence. In the first episode of the Next Level Narrative podcast, I'm talking about some of the most memorable opening sequences in video games, to understand what makes them so damn good.