How many times have you saved the world lately? Play enough video games and it could be so frequent it’s hardly worth noticing. Everyone wants to be a hero, and games give you that ability, setting up problems to solve as inevitably as dominoes falling one after the other, whether that’s fending off an alien invasion or sealing away an ancient evil. But there are still stories to be told that complicate our vision of heroism and ask point-blank whether the world even needs heroes at all.
