I was pretty late to the party when I finally played Yoshi’s Island for the SNES roughly 7 years ago. All I really knew was that baby Mario’s crying was very annoying and that the game looked pretty dang cute. Little did I realize that the game was far more difficult than the colorful, crayon-esque…
Category: Spooptober
Revenge of Spooptober – The Goofy Horror of Cloverpit
Even though there aren’t any monsters or even a story to speak of in Cloverpit, it’s still kind of a nightmarish scenario. Think about it, you go to sleep in your own bed only to wake up in a crude metal cell with a collapsible floor and voice telling you over loudspeaker that the only…
Revenge of Spooptober!
Is it October already?! Oh yes, it certainly is! As such, we are ready and raring to celebrate yet another spooky season with a month of posts to match. This time around, however, we’ve got our sights set on a silly-scary blast from the past. First there was October is Spooptober, then there was Spooptober…
Spooptober: Jack Skellington
We’ve spent this year’s Spooptober talking about all those video game characters that wound up being much less frightening than they first appeared. Not everyone fit the idea to a T (cough cough Grunty cough), but we’ve been able to explore a variety of characters all the same. My last choice for the month is…
Spooptober: Mora
For my final #Spooptober pick, I wracked my brain a bit to come up with a character that was both made in the image of something I truly find scary and turned out to be friendly in the most surprising way possible. It turned out that my brain didn’t have to work that hard, because…
Spooptober: Madame Clairvoya
One of the best games to really embrace the spoopy theme is Luigi’s Mansion, that fun little romp where Luigi must capture ghosts by sucking them up in a vacuum. While the game features all sorts of silly, smiling ghouls, that doesn’t change the fact that these ghosts are still eager to give poor Luigi…
Spooptober: Gruntilda
Okay, so I doubt anyone actually ever thought Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie was a scary character. Everything about her is kind of a joke, so I suppose she doesn’t quite keep with the theme we’ve got going on here. However, she does have at least one unsettling moment, and it’s what happens if Banjo and Kazooie…
Spooptober: Wise Mothman
To Bethesda’s credit, Fallout 76 is a game that’s much better than it once was. Between when I started playing the game in 2019 and now, it’s become more enjoyable and less broken, both good things. But the one good thing the game had going for it all along is its lore. Setting the game…
Spooptober – Count Bleck
Most of Mario’s foes are comically evil; they’re doing the whole “take over the world” or “kidnap the princess” thing, but they’re so goofy that you really never take them seriously. Super Paper Mario’s Count Bleck isn’t like that though. He’s got a funny name and odd manner of speaking, but he poses a real…