My Virtual Bastion cohorts and I have lots in common when it comes to gaming. A sweet spot we all share is a fondness for one of the best duos in 3D platforming: Banjo and Kazooie. Personally, the duo’s first outing, Banjo-Kazooie, was a formative game, one that helped me through a memorably awful stretch…
Category: Spooptober
Spooptober: Linda the Lungfish
Horror doesn’t always need to be about ghosts and ghouls. Probably one of the scariest places outside of crypts and cemeteries is any large and murky body of water whose depths could hide absolutely anything. One such location would undoubtedly be Lake Oblongata from Psychonauts, artificially created when the town of Shaky Claim was flooded…
Spooptober: Trollololo
I would venture that most of us might pause upon stumbling across a formidable creature with a penchant for bashing in heads and a taste for human giblets. And further, if we were armed with any sort of weapon, desiring to injure the large beastie before it had any chance to inflict harm upon us…
Spooptober: Dampe the Gravekeeper
Dampe the gravekeeper appears in multiple games in The Legend of Zelda series, but for the sake of simplicity, we’ll be focusing on his appearances in the Nintendo 64 titles, Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask. Dampe is an old man with a hunched back and a crooked face who can usually be found lurching…
Spooptober： Unagi the Eel is Just Chillin’
Hello everyone and welcome back to Spooptober! We’re all psyched to be bringing it back for Halloween this year since, frankly, it’s a perfect year for it. There’s been plenty of truly scary stuff in 2022 already, so why not take some time to focus on our favorite spooks who turned out to not be…
#Spooptober Returns!
When a chill hits the air and the dark nights grow darker, we know that the Halloween season is upon us, and that means it’s time again for spooky game posts! We here at Virtual Bastion have heralded in October with celebrations of all things scary when it comes to video games. From horror games…
Spooptober: Dr. Reid’s Hammy Lines in Vampyr
Overall, Dontnod Entertainment’s Vampyr is a decently spooky game. To begin with, the entire game is steeped in an atmosphere of hopelessness bordering on fatalism thanks to the Spanish Flu epidemic. Once the supernatural elements come to light and we learn more about the true nature of the situation, everything takes on a much more…
Spooptober: Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Rare’s Grabbed by the Ghoulies didn’t make many waves when it was first released on the Xbox in October 2003. The game received middling reviews and, at most, was deemed good but not great. I recall seeing the game box in the stores, thinking “eh, looks dumb,” and moving onto belatedly drool over American McGee’s…
Spooptober: The Pumpkin House
Out in the corner of Fallout 76’s West Virginia map, right on a small stretch of Highway 66, is a most unusual sight. Well, could be that it’s not all that unusual for this time of year, but considering that it’s a year-round “attraction” in the game, it stands out a bit more than most….
Spooptober: Rayman’s Undead Grannies
In a franchise that features zombie chickens, it should be no surprise that the Rayman games are a good source for finding a delightful balance of spooky and quirky. One recurring location is the Land of the Livid Dead, though it is very different in its two main iterations. In Rayman 3, the Land of…