Battle-royale games are infinite interactive story engines, each match a self-contained story of desperation, heroism, and death.Īs compelling that structure is, it's become a limiting factor on my play.
Other games can boast excitement and running stories of achievement and defeat, but few are designed to so consistently offer this type of narrativized payoff. Even in games where you play poorly, where death comes prematurely, that still represents a type of tidy narrative: I landed, prepared for a fight, and then lost.
Unlike multiplayer games like Call of Duty or even MOBAs like League of Legends, the mechanics are perfectly designed to represent a tight narrative structure-the inciting action of the tumble from the sky in the opening act, followed by the rising action of scavenging, leading to the sudden and sparking climax of combat. One of the special and addictive qualities of the battle royale genre is the way each match represents an entire, self-contained dramatic arc. It's a cliche at this point to say that a game is better on the Switch than it is on a fixed home console, but in Fortnite's case, it's absolutely true. Until, that is, Nintendo brought the game to the Switch last week. I've written about how challenging the game can be for the casual fan to get used to, and that extended to me as well I have to admit I almost stopped playing entirely. I've been trying to get into Fortnite for weeks.
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