In my previous video I explored a concept I call ludo anthropomorphic dissonance, which aims to explain the tension between the realism video game players want from their enemy characters and the lack of realism players need from their enemy characters. I used an example from the Playstation 1 game Tenchu Stealth Assassins. Enemy guards in this game are inept. They can be lured from their post by a ball of rice that appears out of nowhere. But more importantly, they don’t question the rice ball’s origin. Real people, when seeing a strange object fly through the sky would question the object’s origin, not its destination. (more…)