10 Things That Make No Sense About Your Favourite Games

Naughty Dog's Uncharted franchise is the epitome of Hollywood-inspired cinematic action-adventure gaming, casting players as charming treasure hunter Nathan Drake who moonlights as a mass murderer.

The grand contradiction of the Uncharted series has been fiercely debated over the years, that despite the seemingly plucky, light-hearted tone of the narratives, the gameplay is often aggressively violent, with players encouraged if not forced to slaughter hundreds of goons in their pursuit of loot.

This is perhaps the purest distillation of ludonarrative dissonance in video games, enough that Naughty Dog themselves even included an eponymously-named trophy in Uncharted 4 for players who killed 1000 enemies throughout the campaign.

Though the later games in the series have certainly de-emphasised exhausting shootouts in favour of exploration and traversal, it does make you wonder if Nate elided his murderous past when retelling these tales to his daughter Cassie in Uncharted 4's epilogue.

Most players are able to compartmentalise this disparity between narrative and gameplay because the Uncharted games are so well crafted, even if it's undeniably strange from the perspectives of mood and tone.