Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
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The Ungame Like Game Steinsgate
There's an entire genre of game in Japan, which is more like a novel than a game. It's called a visual game novel and that's one of the things I chose as the thing to write about. In chapter five you dive specifically into a case study of a game called Steinsgate,. And its aesthetics of stereomimesis and the resulting hypermediacy That sort of disorientation came through these refracted nimesis and hypermediacy," he says. "I'm not sure which side of the mirror I'm really on here"
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