Tag: video games

The Talos Principle 2: Better, Bigger, Brilliant

SPOILERS from the get-go, while my complaints about The Talos Principle 2 are mostly minimal, when I discovered late in the game that I could not return to New Jerusalem, essentially the game’s “home base,” before reaching the endgame, I felt decidedly sour. If something or someone had indicated a point of no return earlier,…

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Silent Hill 2 Art Director Drops Major Piece of Lore

One of the great things about Silent Hill 2 is that just about the entire experience is open to interpretation. You can read almost anything you want into it and can interpret the symbology in almost anyway, allowing everyone to make the story their own in a way. Still, there are interpretations that are more…

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Alisa: Demo Review

Making modern games in a retro style has become rather common practice lately.  A major trend I’ve noticed lately are PS1-style horror games.  Perhaps those grainy graphics just lend well to a spooky atmosphere in the same fashion as creepy VHS-style videos.  Wanting to try one of these games for myself, I was pleased to…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard First Impressions

While I count the Dragon Age games among my most favorite RPGs of all time now, it wasn’t always like that. My first playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins was distracted, at best. I had a false start with Inquisition, and I held the second game in contempt for far longer than was warranted. While I…

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FNAF 1-4: A Comparison

For the longest time, the only original Scott Cawthon-created Five Nights at Freddy’s games I owned were the first two.  This was largely due to the fact that these games were originally only available on the PC, and I’m more of a console gamer.  Nevertheless, I still tried the first two games for myself, then…

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Walking the Streets of Silent Hill 2-A First-Timer’s Experience

This year’s Spooktober has already come and gone, but I’m not ready to leave the spooky season behind just yet. See, the horror genre got a very important entry this month with the release of Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake. The original Silent Hill 2 is the quintes- sential horror game, so a new…

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The Horror that Surrounds: The Dead City Lives

Post-apocalyptic visions are a dime a dozen in games these days. Players regularly travel through forgotten, decrepit scenes that live on in the wake of some terrible disaster. That could be a war, a pandemic, a case of technology gone berserk, or something else entirely. The point is that these spaces are shrouded by more…

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The Horror That Surrounds: The Eye of the Universe

When I decided to write about Outer Wilds, it was hard to narrow down the exact location I wanted to cover.  Let’s see, we’ve got a planet being torn apart from the inside by a black hole, an ocean planet covered in tornadoes, and a bizarre place where the fabric of space itself doesn’t work…

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