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Originally Posted by Jon K
Maybe what this is all about is "character arc". April has a well-defined one... but does Manny in Grim Fandango? Does Guybrush, do the DOTT gang? Does Ben in Full Throttle? They are good characters, all of them, but the events of the game don't change them. The games are a funny, irrelevant side-story in the grand scheme of their lives.
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character arc is approrpiate for The Longest Journey. Manny certainly develops throughout Grim Fandango in much the same way that many noir heroes do, which is the point. Ben is clearly designed with the motorcyclist heroes of 50s movies like the Wild Ones and those characters tended to stay more or less as they were by the end. But even so I think Ben does develop, because his character certainyl could have been a lot flatter and 2-dimensional (no pun intended) than he ended up being--a hardened cyclist capable of love and with his heart in the right place. And Raz undergoes some character development certainly.
The characters in DOTT and Monkey Island don't need arc because it wouldn't be approapriate in the context of the game (tell me if there is a lot of arc in any great real comedy, as opposed to dramedies).
