“What good is storytelling in an action game? Steven Johnson looks for answers in the new game Oni… ‘One of the best fundamental principles that anybody ever expressed to me about game design is that games should teach you how to play them,’ says Hardy LeBel, designer of the newly released Oni, from Bungie Studios. An action title deeply influenced by Japanese animé films like Akira or Ghost in the Shell, Oni follows the story of a young cybernaut named Konoko and her battle against an industrial espionage outfit called, predictably enough, The Syndicate.”
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