Character

I recently bought Super Mario Galaxy 2 and while playing I was thinking "Wow I've been Mario in a lot of games". I looked it up and found that Mario was in about 200 games and I had played about 180 of them. Then the thinking got deeper. "I've grown with this character and have watched him grow as well" I found it was a weird bond we shared. I (and hopefully all of you) have watched Mario go from dark pixels to blocky polygons to smooth and shiny. We have controlled him from being just able to jump to fly around and entire world. Where I'm going is video-games allow us to grow with a character through his whole life and story and while movies and shows can show it we control them and experience them. We take Solid Snake through his first mission to just about his death-bed. We make Big Boss go from hero to villain. We give Kratos his revenge in his quest. It's amazing that video-games can connect with a character so well and deeper than any film can. If you suffered this far from the bad writing thank you and please look forward towards expanding on this idea.