An adventure carries certain risks and is subject to unforeseeable events.
Adventure is a term whose etymology takes us to the Latin language : its word adventūra can be translated as that which will come or happen . The notion is usually used in reference to the event, the fact or the event that, for some reason, is out of the ordinary .
For example: "Yesterday we had an adventure since we missed the train and had to walk several kilometers to return to the hotel" , "This mountain is perfect for adventure lovers" , "Becoming a father was an adventure for me" .
The idea of adventure is linked to an experience that carries certain risks and whose protagonist may be at the mercy of unpredictable events . Affairs can begin spontaneously and involuntarily, without the person seeking them. In other cases, the subject will promote an action to try to live the adventure in question.
Examples of adventure
Take the case of a family heading to their vacation destination but, in the middle of the night, their car breaks down on a rarely traveled road. While they wait for help to arrive, they decide to camp next to the vehicle. In this way they are forced to live an adventure that was not in their plans.
Instead, a young man who decides to backpack through Patagonia , climbing mountains and swimming in lakes, makes his trip in search of adventure.
Rafting is an adventure sport.
Other meanings of the term
Informal, occasional or clandestine romantic relationships are also known as affairs: "Don't tell anyone, but I'm having an affair with my neighbor," "The actor was discovered by his wife in an affair."
Adventure is also the genre of films and literary works that focuses on entertainment through the risky experiences of the protagonists. "Around the World in Eighty Days" , by Frenchman Jules Verne , is an example of an adventure novel.
Adventure video games
Just as in the rest of the arts, video games can be divided into a large number of genres and styles, among which is adventure. The main elements of adventure games are the exploration of peculiar settings, the investigation to solve all kinds of mysteries, the need to talk and interact with many characters to be able to advance in the story (which takes precedence over the action). and solving puzzles.
It is important to clarify that this genre of video games is not related to that of adventure novels and films, since it does not refer to the theme or the type of main character. In other words, it does not indicate the presence of large scenarios in which risky feats will take place on the part of an agile and reckless hero; On the contrary, adventure games usually have "normal" people as protagonists and their settings are usually rather gloomy.
Since the story is the main point of adventure games, it is normal that their narrative level is higher than what we can find in other genres, such as action or even RPG . Their main platform is the computer and currently they are no longer very popular, unlike what happened until the early 90s.
Among the best-known titles in the adventure genre are " King's Quest" , "The Secret of Monkey Island" , "Myst" and "Maniac Mansion" . As in literature and cinema, the complexity of certain works makes it very difficult to strictly place them in a genre, and that is why there is no definitive classification . On the other hand, the existence of fusions between different genres adds a few layers of complexity to this task; One of the most common is action-adventure, a genre from the “The Legend of Zelda” series, developed by Nintendo .