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  • 55 - Is Choosing From a Script Still Freedom? The Stanley Parable

    October 23, 2026 · 49 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/is-choosing-from-a-script-still-freedom-the-stanley-parable-mythic-mind-games-ep-55/ The Stanley Parable offers you freedom, then shows you that every path was already built for you. But a…

  • 54 - Why We Grieve Characters Who Never Lived

    October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/grief-in-video-games-mythic-mind-games-ep-54/ Video games do not merely distract from sorrow. Through time spent with characters, player agency, and participation in sub-creation, they can…

  • 53 - Red Dead Redemption 2: Arthur Morgan, Ivan Ilyich & Memento Mori (revisit)

    September 28, 2026 · 32 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/red-dead-redemption-2-arthur-morgan-ivan-ilyich-memento-mori-mythic-mind-games-ep-4/ Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan and Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich both teach memento mori: facing death…

  • 52 - Video Games and the Psyche: Agency, Anxiety, and Upbuilding

    September 11, 2026 · 31 min

    Video games are not only amusement. They are structured existential experiences: forks that press agency, anxiety, identity, desire, and failure on a real self, whether the world on screen is "primary" or secondary. In this Mythic Mind…

  • 51 - Facing Fate in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

    July 31, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/facing-fate-in-final-fantasy-vii-rebith-mythic-mind-games-ep-51/ Final Fantasy VII Rebirth asks whether Remake's defiance of fate was ever real freedom: after killing the arbiter of fate…

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  • 50 - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Trauma, and Untapped Depth

    June 24, 2026 · 43 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/advent-children-mythic-mind-games-ep-50/ Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is a visually striking fan-service film that sketches a psychological study of Cloud's unresolved trauma and a…

  • 49 - Final Fantasy VII Remake: Reimagining, Sequel, and Fate

    June 19, 2026 · 55 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/final-fantasy-vii-remake-my/ Final Fantasy VII Remake is less a straight remake than a reimagining that often plays like a sequel: Midgar expands into a full game that deepens Avalanche…

  • 48 - Final Fantasy VII: Grief, Consolation, and Recovery

    June 5, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/final-fantasy-vii-grief-consolation-and-recovery-mythic-mind-games-ep-48/ Final Fantasy VII is a story of grief, consolation, and recovery: Aerith's death scars the party and the player…

  • 47 - Outer Wilds: Stories and Music at the End of the Universe

    May 22, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/outer-wilds-stories-and-music-at-the-end-of-the-universe-mythic-mind-games-ep-47/ Outer Wilds asks what stories we tell and what music we make when the universe itself is ending. On the…

  • 46 - Final Fantasy Tactics and Demonic Revolutionaries

    May 8, 2026 · 22 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/final-fantasy-tactics-and-demonic-revolutionaries-mythic-mind-games-ep-46/ What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious…

  • 45 - Why Video Games Repay Philosophical Attention

    April 24, 2026 · 45 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/why-video-games-repay-philosophical-attention-mythic-mind-games-ep-45/ Outer Wilds had to wait. Nearly a year into Mythic Mind Games, Dr. Andrew Snyder instead looks back: why he set video…

  • 44 - Chrono Trigger: Time Travel, Lavos, and Childlike Wonder

    April 10, 2026 · 59 min

    Watch the video: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/chrono-trigger-time-travel-lavos-and-childlike-wonder-mythic-mind-games-ep-44/ Chrono Trigger is the SNES all-star package: Toriyama's designs, Mitsuda's melodies, and a time-travel story…

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About the show

Pursuing wisdom through primary and secondary worlds. Mythic Mind Games is a conversation about video games as secondary worlds. We look at story, design, and the moral imagination of play: what games train us to love, fear, hope for, and become. This is not a review show and not a strategy guide. Episodes sit with particular games and ask what they are doing to the soul: The Elder Scrolls (Skyrim and Oblivion), Fallout, Final Fantasy VII, Red Dead Redemption, Outer Wilds, Chrono Trigger, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and more, often with Tolkien, myth, and Kierkegaard close at hand. Grief, home, identity, freedom, and wonder show up here as often as bosses and endings. Hosted by Andrew Snyder, Ph.D., alongside friends from the Fellowship. Listen on your own, then continue the discussion in the Mythic Mind Fellowship: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/membership