Personal Narrative: Barbie Horse Adventures

As a child, I loved watching my older brother play the video games I wasn’t allowed to. This was the loophole to my parent’s rule; if I wasn’t playing the game, then I wasn’t technically misbehaving, but I could have the same experiences. I loved these games far more than any of my own, because they were far deeper and conceptually complex than, say, Barbie Horse Adventures.
I still remember the day in November 2009 that my brother got Assassin’s Creed 2. We’d shared the experience of playing the first game, but with the second installment came a whole new realm of possibility. The base concept of the first game, accessing genetic memory and synchronizing with ancestors, was clever and integrated the user well, but with the second game came