Portal: A Mean Storytelling Machine
When MTV Multiplayer blog's Steven Totilo made a request to CAPCOM to cut gameplay of Okami when porting it to Wii, pretty much everyone disputed that notion of edit. People don't like "Director's Cut" version of movies, and people don't want to lose even one sec of their precious playtime.
And guess what? Arguable the year 2007's most influential game, Portal was able to deliver such compact, condensed experience with atomic punch of mindshifting story by, none other than, editing. Yes, "the secret," the article writes, "to crafting Portal's perfect blend of gameplay and story, ... was to cut, cut, and cut some more." And so the game became only about 3-hour-long game, and became such a charm. (You may think they may have removed dull moments and features only, but they actually have cut a whole NPC who they initially had players encounter on the course of the game.)
Are we seeing the birth of a new career as Gameplay Editor?
