Kevan Brighting's performance as the narrator in The Stanley Parable may be one of the greatest examples of in-game narration in video-game history, but that's also partially down to a combination of different talents from multiple people. One thing I think developers overlook when deciding they'd like a narrator in their game is that you need more than a smooth voice for it to be successful.
He also voices every single character you meet, resulting in a world stripped of personality in favor of every character speaking in Banjo-Kazooie-esque grunts and gibberish that all sound the same. The narrator will comment on the weather, when the sun sets, when the sun rises, when you're out of stamina, when you're low on health, and will even randomly say things like "kachow" during combat. While there's nothing particularly wrong with David Shaw Parker's performance as the narrator in Biomutant, it's the frequency and inanity of his dialogue that make him irritating. Each game's narrator guides the player through the story, but it's the latter that makes the experience tedious. Without the narrator in Biomutant, the world feels lifeless and the player misses out on key plot points. Without the narrator in The Stanley Parable, the game is pretty much unplayable. Both games have been put into the position where if the narrator isn't top-notch, the game falls flat simply because of how much it relies on them. Biomutant and The Stanley Parable might be polar opposites of one another, but they both live and die by the quality of their narrator.
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