Tag: Silent Hill
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God of War and knowing when to end a series
Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone has had a good start to their 2023. So far it’s looking like the year is going to be pretty great when it comes to games! We’ve got things like Spider-Man 2, the Breath of the Wild sequel, Final Fantasy XVI and so much more. But before we get…
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Psychological Horror – Horror that sits with you
To end this month of horror game related posts, I thought I’d talk about what might be my favorite kind of horror, and that’s psychological horror! Unlike with shock horror, that mainly focuses on things like jump scares and freaky imagery, psychological horror generally requires a bit more thought. It focuses more on dread and…
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The benefits of hard to find secrets in Games
So if you’ve been paying attention to gaming news on Twitter recently you may have seen that Nier: Automata has been trending like crazy despite being a pretty old game at this point. This was mainly due to the fact that a new unseen area of the game had supposedly been discovered. This set the…
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Invisible Choices in Games
Choices are always a fun part of games. They can give games replayability or help cater the game to different play styles so everyone can enjoy. But more often than not, choices in games are used to affect the story of the game more than anything else. For some games, it’s the biggest draw of…
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Should we be excited for a new Silent Hill?
Recently, there have been a ton of rumors surrounding the Silent Hill series. From all new games to remakes and even to a new movie. The Silent Hill rumor mill has been buzzing lately but I feel there’s something we aren’t really addressing here. Should we really be excited for a new Silent Hill game?…
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Making a Short Game Worth It
Awhile back I wrote a post talking about how the length of a game doesn’t affect how good it is. I talked about how a longer game isn’t inherently better than a shorter one and vice versa. However, I feel like I didn’t go into enough detail about how to use length to make a…
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Designing an Unlikable Lead
It isn’t hard to make a character unlikable. The character could have a terrible design, be extremely poorly written, have terrible voice acting… It’s a much harder job to have players like and enjoy a character, or at the very least be indifferent to them. But what about the characters that the players are designed…
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Modern Horror Games and the ‘Haunted House’ Problem
It’s honestly super nice to see that horror games are once again getting lots of love from the game industry. There was a long period where the only new horror experiences were coming from indie games. Now big companies like Capcom are getting back into it! At long last the big drought that started during…
Games for Thought 