The Stanley Parable Analysis
Humans have five senses. It’s a well known fact that kids learn early on, to identify seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting as the ways in which we observe the world, which segways nicely into our first science classes, walking outdoors carrying those neat little science notebooks, to write about butterflies that flutter on the edges of the soccer field. Some animals have better senses than us, some worse, but for the most part we count ourselves as pretty lucky to have the senses we have and to perceive the world the way we do. I find myself questioning what if we could see images our human eyes can’t? What if there’s something incredible we aren’t seeing, that other beings can? How confusing would that be? These questions consistently captivate me and, as a teenager, I naturally came to realize this in a video game.
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Essentially, there is a style to the graphics, and the player comes to accept it as reality for that world. What made me stop for a moment were a series of photographs on the office walls. These were real photos of real fauna, not in the style of the graphics. I paused to think, what if I walked into a building one day, and on the wall hung a picture infinitely more realistic than the reality around me? That would be weird. I realized the concept that we can’t see a whole intricate piece of our reality didn’t just appear in my mind from The Stanley Parable, but from earlier in my childhood. Superman, with his x-ray vision, could pick up signals a human eye couldn’t. Was it more confusing because of the overlay of sensory details? What if we could sense UV light, the way salmon, reindeer, and butterflies can? Most interestingly to me, could there be a way for humans to gain these
Essentially, there is a style to the graphics, and the player comes to accept it as reality for that world. What made me stop for a moment were a series of photographs on the office walls. These were real photos of real fauna, not in the style of the graphics. I paused to think, what if I walked into a building one day, and on the wall hung a picture infinitely more realistic than the reality around me? That would be weird. I realized the concept that we can’t see a whole intricate piece of our reality didn’t just appear in my mind from The Stanley Parable, but from earlier in my childhood. Superman, with his x-ray vision, could pick up signals a human eye couldn’t. Was it more confusing because of the overlay of sensory details? What if we could sense UV light, the way salmon, reindeer, and butterflies can? Most interestingly to me, could there be a way for humans to gain these