Thoughts on A:AMFP

[Tesseract]

An inventory screen breaks immersion because the real-world counterpart is, well, digging into your pockets. Inventory screens are a relatively broken but effective way to translate a real world action onto the screen. The developers themselves talked about inventory and immersion (iirc).

So... what's the real world counterpart to reading notes? Well... reading notes... It's the same thing. So how is that breaking immersion for you, since it pretty much replicates the real world counterpart exactly?

In TDD and MFP, reading notes breaks the immersion in exactly the same way as checking your inventory; you switch out of the gameplay to a new screen while the game pauses. If you want to see an excellent example of non-immersion breaking reading, look at Far Cry 2; everything is in game, and there is no pause.

Bluel0bster makes a very good point and I don't think you're quite getting it. In real life you can pick up a note and read it, you can look through your journal (if you have one.)

You can't bring up your inventory which displays information about how your current health and sanity status is in meticulous little boxes.