The Stanley Parable and its sequel, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, serves as a monument to the subversion of tropes in both video gaming and narrative structures, which is why it was a prime media of choice for me to analyze for my Hero Cycle Analysis[fractalhassan.com] essay that I have written for my mythology class. Perhaps there is no greater way to review the game than to analyze the very tropes this video game subverts and in fact--how it still sticks to them. For 10 years my very favorite video game was Portal, and in fact I had received the game 10 years ago to this date. But as of making this analysis, I have no greater pleasure than to state that The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has officially stolen GLaDOS's reign over my heart and replacing it with that of the archetypical Narrator and all that he and his wonderful narrative structure brings to my deeply analytical heart. As one who forever cannot select mean dialogue options, having to put the Narrator through hell broke my heart, but this analysis will reveal how this is a necessary part of the game to assert his role as the archetypical Narrator and by skipping over his dialogue, one takes away a fundamental trait of his archetype--i.e. the subversion of an archetype defeats the purpose of an archetype. Perhaps in a way I am like the Narrator (in a way, we all are), in which I wrote 11 pages for a 5 page assignment--and this was my attempt at keeping things terse. This video game, its subversion and the parody of the monomyth, and its deep themes reflecting the works of both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell leave the analytical player with plenty to play with, plenty to think about, and plenty to analyze--something Cookie9 could never truly appreciate and understand through the nuances and irony of the Narrator's commentary and symbolism of unconscious/conscious states throughout the game. I truly do hope I wrote an analysis worthy of the Narrator's appreciation, and I truly hope the Narrator realizes that he (and the actual developers) truly made a game that far surpassed the scope and efficacy of the original. Thank you for making the one game that has finally taken over Portal in my heart. There will be much more analysis on that page to come, eventually.

The Stanley Parable and its sequel, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, serves as a monument to the subversion of tropes in both video gaming and narrative structures, which is why it was a prime media of choice for me to analyze for my [url=https://fractalhassan.com/2022/11/14/the-stanley-parable-as-a-monomyth-archetype/]Hero Cycle Analysis[/url] essay that I have written for my mythology class. Perhaps there is no greater way to review the game than to analyze the very tropes this video game subverts and in fact--how it still sticks to them. For 10 years my very favorite video game was Portal, and in fact I had received the game 10 years ago to this date. But as of making this analysis, I have no greater pleasure than to state that The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe has officially stolen GLaDOS's reign over my heart and replacing it with that of the archetypical Narrator and all that he and his wonderful narrative structure brings to my deeply analytical heart. As one who forever cannot select mean dialogue options, having to put the Narrator through hell broke my heart, but this analysis will reveal how this is a necessary part of the game to assert his role as the archetypical Narrator and by [spoiler]skipping over his dialogue,[/spoiler] one takes away a fundamental trait of his archetype--i.e. the subversion of an archetype defeats the purpose of an archetype. Perhaps in a way I am like the Narrator (in a way, we all are), in which I wrote 11 pages for a 5 page assignment--and this was my attempt at keeping things terse. This video game, its subversion and the parody of the monomyth, and its deep themes reflecting the works of both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell leave the analytical player with plenty to play with, plenty to think about, and plenty to analyze--something Cookie9 could never truly appreciate and understand through the nuances and irony of the Narrator's commentary and symbolism of unconscious/conscious states throughout the game. I truly do hope I wrote an analysis worthy of the Narrator's appreciation, and I truly hope the Narrator realizes that he (and the actual developers) truly made a game that far surpassed the scope and efficacy of the original. Thank you for making the one game that has finally taken over Portal in my heart. There will be much more analysis on that page to come, eventually.