Why Video Game Dogs Aren't Always Good Dogs | Video Essay

While video games dogs are, more often than not, a delight to be around, very few of them feel like real dogs. Every digital doggo deserves to be its best so we looked into what developers can improve about video game dogs.

Dogs in movies seem to always illicit an emotional reaction from audiences - so much so that the dying dog has become something of a cliché. And yet, video game dogs are usually nothing more than tools to be used for a specific purpose. As a result, their dog-ness becomes lost to their utilitarian development.

The Last Guardian and Legend Of Zelda: Breath of The Wild are two games that, in different respects, nail what makes dogs so wonderful in games. 

Let Thinky Boxes explain how.