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Amnesia

July 2nd

…care how blizzard-activision wanted to live-service this game to oblivion.”

Hook, Line, and Thinker

The otherworldly terrors continue in a horror-focused section interrogating genre, design, storytelling, and a non-negligible quantity of fish.

  • The Amnesiac Remembers | Bullet Points Monthly Steven Nguyen Scaife contemplates the mechanical complexity and randomization of the latest Amnesia and wonders if there’s a predictability to the genre that can’t be designed away with ever more sophisticated systems.
  • Review: Fishing Vacation Dredges Up Unwholesome Summer Fun | Sidequest Kathryn Hemmann experiences some lofi story beats to feel unsettled to.
  • Dredge;…

July 16th

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  • Yearning, Once More, to Forget | Bullet Points Monthly Pao Yumol compares the less-predictable but less-reliable randomized approach to horror in Amnesia: The Bunker to the more curated format of the original Dark Descent.
  • HEIRLOOM | DEEP HELL Skeleton zeroes in on that ur-text of FPS gun porn, the shotgun, via an example from the zenith of US imperialism’s fucking around phase.

    • “The American Shotgun carries with it a feverish, pacifying quality. Good for home defense. Exorcise a devil, a ghost, or a robber: in some paranoid imaginations, one of them is all of them.

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