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What I meant when I called Inception “the Citizen Kane of video games,” in a good way:
The problem with comparing Inception to a video game, which is
pretty unavoidable, is that even people who should know better are
conditioned to assume said comparison is pejorative. It isn’t if I’m
the guy making it, at least not in this case. It’s not just that the
movie’s imaginary realms are designed to resemble video-game levels;
the links among them and the surprises in each are involving–not just
as a puzzle to solve, but emotionally–in a similarly
quasi-participatory way.
