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The Recurring Dreams storylets are entitled The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, <br>The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said.
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The Recurring Dreams storylets are entitled The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said.
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The Binding of Isaac
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Independently produced--<br>Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl
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      The hanged man/themes of hanging and suicide/living death/shell shock
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An open world, role-playing action adventure title based around the story described in <i>The Waste Land.</i>
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      The Waste Land is an 8-bit, open world, role-playing action adventure title <br>
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      from indie developer Fledermaus; aka the one-man team that is Mr Michele <br>
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      Caletti. The fantasy adventure is based around the story described in the T.S. Eliot<br>
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      poem from which the name of the game has been drawn. (PC, The Waste Land)
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Games which indirectly, accidentally, and/or thematically reference The Waste Land (includes references to Eliot's other works):
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==Games which indirectly, accidentally, and/or thematically reference The Waste Land (includes references to Eliot's other works):==
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      Lionhead Studios
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Lionhead Studios
 
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      Monsters called Hollow Men appear. See: T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men.
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Monsters called Hollow Men appear. See: T.S. Eliot's poem <i>The Hollow Men.</i>
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      Yager Development/2K Games (2012)
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2K Games (2012)
 
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      Fragmented narrative structure, similar themes of violence, rebirth and fragmented experience
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Fragmented narrative structure, similar themes of violence, rebirth and fragmented experience
 
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Konami (1999-current)
 
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      Fragmented, the hanged man tarot card reference, bilingual hidden messages, etc.
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Fragmented, the hanged man tarot card reference, bilingual hidden messages, etc.
 
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      In Fallout: New Vegas, the quest We Will All Go Together is named for a song by Tom Lehrer, which humorously refers to the total destruction of life through war. The Fallout New Vegas NCR propaganda posters resemble propaganda from WWI and WWII.
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Themes of loss and fragmentation of memory; death of the fathers and simultaneous emancipation and abandonment of the children.
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In Fallout: New Vegas, the quest We Will All Go Together is named for a song by Tom Lehrer, which refers to the total destruction of life through war. The Fallout New Vegas NCR propaganda posters resemble propaganda from WWI and WWII.
 
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      Post-war societal upheaval, fragmented world and experience, lost memories, a history that haunts the present.
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Fragmentary experience, themes of war and rebirth, industrialization vs. the old world
 
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      Cell 3
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Post-war societal upheaval, fragmented world and experience, lost memories, a history that haunts the present. Living death. This is especially apparent in the main plot line known simply as "Dead Man's Switch".
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       Independently produced--Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl
 
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       Archival construction; inclusion of elements in a manner similar to The Waste Land; theme of fragmentation and memories. For an example of archival construction, see the character of Ansem and his reports, which are based on the philosopher Saint Anselm of Canterbury and his writings.
 
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