How to Bond Your Characters Correctly - Persona 5 vs Tales of Berseria

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Published on August 12, 2021 11:37:16 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA8HxD76KmE

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Tales of Berseria (2016)

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Duration: 24:08

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Video games can demonstrate how to bond your characters in many ways. One surefire way of doing so is through writing great dialogue. Persona 5 and Tales of Berseria are two games where dialogue is the most important part of bonding their characters. Writing characters can be done through implicit exposition and explicit exposition.

While this is a Persona 5 vs Tales of Berseria video, it should be understood that both games create character relationships through relatively different methods. Persona 5 bonds their characters through explicit exposition while Tales of Berseria connects their characters through implicit exposition. Regardless of which exposition technique is used, the best way to bond characters is with subtlety, or else the character connections feel fake. Persona 5's cutscenes are an example of how you can ruin the sense of immersion by not being subtle, while the Tales of Berseria cutscenes use subtlety to bond their characters in a riveting demeanor that ends up adding more to the characters and the character relationships in the long run. Although the primary goal of this video is to demonstrate how to bond your characters correctly, this video can be also a good resource for learning how to write characters as I go over explicit and implicit exposition.

Also here's my review of Persona 5 on GGApp:
https://ggapp.io/JonFrost/reviews/persona-5-royal/_DoMP1Cl

And here is the Closer Look's video on how to write great dialogue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEgsIV98ZmU

0:00 Introduction
1:29 Implicit and Explicit Exposition
4:34 How Persona 5 Explicitly Gets it Wrong
11:41 Adjusting the Scene in Question
13:35 How Tales of Berseria Implicitly gets it Right
20:18 Magilou's scene
21:02 How Should Exposition be Exposed

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