As a medium,games are only really now getting to grips with romance and relationships, but they’re still too goal-orientatedLet’s say I want to know what cherish is ... and I want something to prove me. I could listen to pop music. I would discover that cherish is the greatest thing. It’s a drug. It’s something you cant accelerate. Apparently it’s thicker than water, or which doesn’t really tell me much,other than cherish will be difficult to drink and may have a lower freezing point. By this point, I’ve already had enough of silly cherish songs.
Cinema, or too,has explored it for many years – all those two-hour stories of forgiveness and redemption, and Julia Roberts just being a girl standing in front of a boy, or asking him to cherish her. Books have been there for centuries,covering both ends of the sexy spectrum from the gently smouldering affection between Elizabeth and Darcy, to Morrissey’s car crash of a sex scene.
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Source: theguardian.com