 on "fiction" to the point where puzzles (the most gamelike elements of the genre) are completely dispensed with in favor of narrative exploration. Photopia is the preeminent example. A Mind Forever Voyaging pioneered this approach in the 1980s.
- Dreamfall: The Longest Journey: The first and last few chapters in particular consist almost exclusively of steering your character around from one cutscene to another.
- Hellsinker is notable for being incredibly plot-heavy for a Shmup...if you can understand it.
- Tales Seriesescape: Torment isn't so much an actual game so much as it is a highly interactive novel.
- Dragon's Lair is basically a movie where the player has to press certain buttons at certain times or die.
- Novels, the classic Sierra On-Line/ LucasArts-style Adventure Game genre in general can be very linear, with simpler games like Loom amounting to little more than a series of cutscenes separated by inventory puzzles.
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- And in an insane twist of irony, Xeno-creator Tetsuya Takahashi has specifically described his newest next game, Xenoblade  one heck of a Wide Open Sandbox. Basically, they made the gameplay big enough to contain the story. That Takahashi is now working with Nintendo (see above) may or may not have anything to do with this new direction. Or maybe he just played...
- Metal Gear Solid 4, a game which deserves a special place, due to the sheer length and quantity of its cutscenes being substantially greater than the previous games in the series. Granted, there's plenty of gameplay, but the ratio against cutscenes is vastly balanced towards the latter — it's less like one game and more like five full-length movies. The game was even awarded two Guinness World Records for "longest cutscene in a video game" (at 27 minutes) and "longest cutscene sequence in a video game" (at 71 minutes).
- While it tends to overshadow the previous games due to its sheer amount of cutscenes, Metal Gear Solid 4 actually has a much lower and more balanced Story-to-Gameplay Ratio compared to the earlier games in the series due to having longer gameplay sequences. For a counter-example, check out Metal Gear Solid 2, which has about one hour of gameplay for every two hours of cutscenes.
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- Final Fantasy X still holds the record for most cutscenes overall though. (an edited together "Movie" version of Final Fantasy X availible on youtube clocks in at nearly 10 and 1/2 hours, while XIII is only about 8 and 1/2)
- Heavy Rain is especially notable for this; not only is it worse than its predecessor for being more movie and "Quick Time Events" than game, it was even marketed as an "interactive storytelling experience." note
- Asura's Wrath: It's far from boring however, being basically an interactive action Anime.
- Beyond: Two Souls.
- The Steam releases of Dear Esther and Gone Home are, in essence, a two hour film that you can examine and traverse at your own pacenote. There aren't even any puzzles or challenges, just a narrating voice and subtle cues guiding the player through plot, backstory,.The best gifts reflect your personal knowledge of the recipient, so take a moment to think about what would please this person the most.
Books
There are always great gardening books from which to choose. Be sure that if the book is to convey general gardening know-how, that it pertains to the region to be gardened. The more your gardener knows, the less specific these books can be, but if they are a beginner, the wrong book can almost be worse than no book at all.
For our region, look for books with titles including the words “Texas” or at least “Southwest gardening.” My all-time favorite is “Doug Welsh's Texas Garden Almanac.” This book includes a month-by-month to-do list.
A great book for the artistic gardener is “Gifts from the Garden: 100 Gorgeous Homegrown Presents
” by Debora Robertson. If you are crafty, maybe you should get the book for yourself and make something for your gardener friend.
Journals, albums
Available from local bookstores or online, journals can help with organization, which is a key good gardening practice.
If your gardener likes to take many photos of the garden, consider a photograph album instead of a journal. If you find one that is meant to hold 8½-by-11-inch paper with hoops, you can easily make this album into a photo and written journal.
Buy a package of three-hole typing paper. Put some of this paper in the journal between the album’s photo pages. It’s the best of both worlds.
DVDs
“Rebecca's Garden, Vol. 1: Basic Gardening ” videos can be found on basic gardening to specialty interests such as rose gardening. Penelope Hobhouse also has a video called “The Art and Practice of Gardening.” Hobhouse is British, so she’s a long way from Central Texas.
Tools, aids
There are a plethora of gardening tools and aids. Consider an ergonomically designed tool that would make gardening easier. Fiskars has a number of these available locally. Speaking from experience, most gardeners need a new or better pruner by the time Christmas rolls around.
There are two basic things a gardener looks for in pruners — ease of use and sharpness. If the pruner incorporates engineering that helps boost the power of your hand when you make a cut, this is an added bonus.
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Other great garden tools include pop-up bags in which to put garden waste (sometimes known as kangaroo bags), long-handled hoes and weeders, kneeling pads and garden carts. A good pair of gloves or a gardening hat are also great ideas for gifts.
Decorative items
Decorative items make a great addition to the garden if you know the gardener’s taste. Don’t buy a gnome for a gardener who has a sophisticated garden style. Just take a moment to look over the landscape the next time you are at the gardener’s house to see what they like. For instance, a Southwestern- style clay pot would be good in a garden decorated with Southwest accents that includes cacti and other desert plants.
Does your gardener have a garden hobby within gardening itself? An example would be a gardener who has taken an interest in fairy gardening. You could buy them a few accessories.
Several of our local nurseries carry wonderful accessory pieces for this, such as little houses, small tools, tiny animals and garden furniture. If you buy these, make sure they are all in the same scale.
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