I really love all the creative ways that podcasts and radio plays try to get their environment across in audio. Some are like, “the details of the location don’t matter, we can use soundscapes and if there are any important visual details we can work it into dialogue.” Some are like, “we’ll give our protagonist a recorder to either use as a journalling device or to be recording their adventure for someone else, so they have an excuse to describe the environment.” Some just go, “fuck it, we’re introducing a non-diagetic narrator, who cares”.
And then Malevolent is like, “Why overcomplicate things? Let’s just steal our protagonist’s eyes and give them to a demon living in his head, so the demon has to describe everything to him in sufficient detail for them to get anything done. That should work.”
“The problem with podcasts is that the audience is blind and needs a narrator”
“Okay then let’s also make our protagonist blind and need a narrator”