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My tradition of picking whatever goes through my mind at account's creation for my online presence continues unabated. In this case, was playing Death's Door...

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Thoughts on Quake Maps for Hardcore Players... I think?

I've almost completed the entirety of the 70-something maps in the Quake Brutalist Jam III. Let's talk some numbers first -- I would say I put... roughly 40 hours into it? According to Steam's stats. I've been playing it as a mod on the original Quake - that number sounds like a long time, but time flies when playing this jam. And I need to underline those 40 hours to point at the fact that, at…

This post will spoil the first 32 seconds of Silent Hill f

This post will spoil the first 32 seconds of Silent Hill f. The first 32 seconds of Silent Hill f hooked me faster than it took to read this sentence. It's a barebones presentation. Here's the setup: the (assumed) protagonist is playing with a doll in what's framed as a childhood flashback. We’re seeing the scene through her own eyes as she laments being isolated from the other girls in her class…

The Tokyo of Shinya Tsukamoto (tw: suicide)

* trigger warning: suicide, self harm * When the long-haired gang leader proclaims "Tokyo is a dream," it's hard not to take him at his word. Bullet Ballet (バレット・バレエ) It would be way too easy to say "No, director's Shinya Tsukamoto's Tokyo is a nightmare , a jungle of near endless rain, pulsating industrial noise music and violence behind every corner, in every color of skin and blood and in no…

Stopping bullets with your cheeks is surprisingly hype

So I finally got around to playing Call of Juarez: Gunslinger — Techland's gritty and incredibly stylish Sergio-Leone-them-up from back in 2013 that I've had in my sights for ages and boy, let me tell you, it left an impression. I knew two things going in: one, that this game was a very budget title, which showed — short and with the levels of recycling that would make Greta Thunberg weep tears of…

Death's Door and Tunic were in a bundle and that made me feel bad

It feels... unfair to play Death's Door after finishing Tunic up to the secret ending 1 . I'm gonna be critical of the crow's little adventure for a while, and I'm feeling bad about it — I decided to use it as inspiration for this blog's name as an apology of sort. It's a fantastic game, with better combat than Tunic, an inspired art style and fantastic character designs, much more interesting…