Tag: video games

The Horror That Surrounds: All Bets are of in the Bottom of the Well

Well, we’re just about at the end of another Spooktober season, and once again it went all too quickly, don’t you think? I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I rather enjoyed this year’s festivities! So much so that I found myself thinking back a few years to our Zeldaween event and just how…

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The Horror that Surrounds: Why Does the Glowing Sea Glow?

I feel like the answer to that question is “you know even if you don’t know.” Given what we know about nuclear weaponry, I’ll refrain from being too cheeky about the vast, devastated, irradiated landscape known as “The Glowing Sea” in Fallout 4. Its story hits close to our past, and, hopefully, does not portend…

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The Horror That Surrounds: Mouldwood Depths

I’ve heard it said, “I’m not afraid of the darkness, I’m just afraid of what’s in it”.  This statement rings true 99% of the time.  Darkness typically hides all sorts of sneaky things that like to slither and skitter about unseen.  But the darkness itself…it can’t actually hurt you, right?  Right?  Well, in Ori and…

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The Horror that Surrounds: Into the Dark of The Depths

Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivator to, well…stand still. Very, very still. That’s the first thing I did upon entering The Depths in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As Link, I just stood there, surveying the empty sea of seemingly nothing that lay beyond the lit circle of “safety” where…

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The Horror That Surrounds: The Dunes

With so many horror games revolving around abandoned buildings, spooky woods, and loads of dead things, it’s really refreshing when a horror game comes along that forgoes all of that.  Okay, okay, today’s subject is not technically a horror game, and yet I still find it to be a good deal more terrifying than most…

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The Horror that Surrounds: The Tragedy of Oakvale

In the first Fable game, the village of Oakvale is the home of the game’s hero. It’s a small but lively town with all the amenities any family might need. One fateful date, the village was ransacked by bandits, and only a few residents survived, including a young boy who would go on to shape…

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The Horror That Surrounds: The Abyss

Hollow Knight is a challenging Metroidvania about a bug who travels to the dead kingdom of Hallownest, which has been ravaged by a terrible infection, leaving very few inhabitants alive and sane.  This game is no stranger to dark things, and sometimes it veers off into outright horror.  This is especially apparent in two locations…

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