My Favourite Game Sam Sykes
Sam Sykes is a novelist with two high fantasy trilogies under his belt. When he’s not writing slasher-fiction on Twitter with fellow writer Chuck Wendig, he’s deconstructing genre tropes within his prose. Here, he discusses humanity in Dark Souls, A Link To The Past’s narrative and writing around random encounters.
What’s your earliest memory of games?
was the first game where I was just completely glued to the screen. My mom rented it from Blockbuster. Until then, I thought games were like, ‘move from I wanted to be a banker, and then I played – but after it, I started writing stories and they had similarities: a telepathic princess, a stormy night, sneaking into a dungeon.
