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+====== Ludo-Narrative Dissonance ======
+Ludo-Narrative Dissonance is a pretentious term to refer to the dissonance that sometimes occurs between the story of a game and its gameplay.
+{{tag>musing story_theory}}
+===== Elaboration =====
+This term was originally created due to a serious misunderstanding on the part of a game reviewer, but it's useful nonetheless.
+Basically, sometimes when you're playing a game, there's a bit of a disconnect between the story of the game (as it is being told) and the gameplay...or how you're playing it.
+An obvious example would be a game where the primary gameplay loop is killing heavily-armed opponents. If you go through most of the game having no issues...but then the player character has trouble dealing with //one guy// in a cutscene, that causes some dissonance. Or the opposite could be the case too: you have a lot of trouble during the gameplay, but then your character effortlessly dispatches opponents in a cutscene.((:fn:>The big example of that being God Hand.))
+It's a relatively common issue and, as far as I can tell, has gotten worse over the past few years.