This game was clearly a labour of love for developer Bloober Team. They even included a full-screen message telling you so. This is the developer behind both Layers of Fear and Observer, both innovative, tense, and enjoyable horror titles, and the more generic but serviceably scary Blair Witch.
I think the tipping point for me was Star Trek Picard. The use of the f-bomb in that show was so jarring to me it immediately wrecked my willing suspension of disbelief. In other words, it wasn’t true to the story world. Not to me, although in my defense I do have several decades of […]
I originally played (and reviewed) Oxenfree back in 2016, it seems. Hard to believe it was four years ago, it is still quite fresh in my mind and indeed I remember it with some fondness. I am surprised, then, on re-reading my original review to find I had been less enthusiastic than I remember. My […]
I suppose if there is one silver glimmer to be seen for me in the dark clouds roiling our planet right now, it is that I have the time to look at the site again. I will try to build the habit to update at least semi-regularly.
In a very simplistic assessment, Dontnod Entertainment’s Life is Strange has a similar set of design points to one of its most obvious (and indeed acknowledged) influences, the classic 90s TV show Twin Peaks. With Life is Strange, it starts with a disappearance rather than a murder, but it is the investigation into the missing […]
I’ve been lax about updating the site here for a terrible length of time. I also dropped off in terms of reviewing horror games. I see that the last game review I posted here was Kraven Manor. This reminds me I should find out if the college-created developer Demon Wagon is doing anything else. I […]
My main career as a forensic investigator still exists. As anyone who reads the news can conclude, it’s a rather volatile world right now. More time spent on the road, living in hotel rooms, on planes. I would say the one thing I’ve gained from this period is understanding how important it is to keep […]
I must confess I was more than a little skeptical about Twitter. I’m one of those people that, when sending an SMS, insists on writing each word in full and punctuating the darned thing. I didn’t think I would be able to communicate much of interest in 140 characters or less, I think there must […]
I’ve been rather enjoying Wattpad. As I have commented before, it’s not beyond the realm of reason that there are more talented authors out there than the conventional publishing world could identify and promote. One of the responses to that, of course, is e-books and self-publishing, and indeed that is something I myself am trying […]
Occasionally I joke that each morning I read the right-wing broadsheet The Telegraph and left-leaning The Guardian, then assume the truth is somewhere in the middle. Chuckle chuckle, ho ho. There is usually some kernel of truth in jokes, which is why they resonate, but my humorous description perhaps makes my reaching of my own […]