Tag: video games

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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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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