{"id":21017,"date":"2025-07-10T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/?p=21017"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:58:35","slug":"story-cliche-exercise-sample-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/story-cliche-exercise-sample-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Clich\u00e9 Exercise: sample result"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured clich\u00e9: “Silly Squall, bringing a sword to a gunfight…”<\/h4>\n

No matter what timeframe the game is set in \u2014 past, present, or future \u2014 the main hero and his antagonist will both use a sword <\/a> for a weapon. (Therefore, you can identify your antagonist pretty easily right from the start of the game just by looking for the other guy who uses a sword.) These swords will be far more powerful <\/a> than any gun <\/a> and often capable of distance attacks <\/a>. \u2014 <\/em>Console RPG Clich\u00e9s <\/a><\/p>\n

Example: Star Wars\u2014A New Hope <\/em><\/h4>\n

The iconic first movie in the Star Wars <\/em> franchise features a variety of dazzling technologies of almost unimaginable scale and power, but still features a showdown with suped-up swords that has more in common with classic pirate movies than a vision of a futuristic world.<\/p>\n

Examples<\/h4>\n
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A sprawling galactic empire deploys star destroyers the size of Lower Manhattan.<\/div>\n
\"Film<\/div>\n
A Death Star the size of a moon can destroy an entire planet in seconds.<\/div>\n
\"Film<\/div>\n
Blasters are powerful enough to destroy spacecraft or fire through personal armor.<\/div>\n
\"Film<\/div>\n
Hand-held lasers are capable of pinpoint accuracy.<\/div>\n
\"Film<\/div>\n
Despite these technological marvels, the final contest between the leaders representing good and evil is a sword fight with handheld light sabers.<\/div>\n
\"Film<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featured clich\u00e9: “Silly Squall, bringing a sword to a gunfight…” No matter what timeframe the game is set in \u2014 past, present, or future \u2014 the main hero and his antagonist will both use a sword for a weapon. (Therefore, you can identify your antagonist pretty easily right from the start of the game just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,22],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-21017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-task-4","tag-62"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21045,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21017\/revisions\/21045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umainenewmedia.net\/nmd100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}