Category: games
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Remember Me
2013, dontnod 8/3/2025 – 8/8/2025 replay notes game cws: suicide, false memories, memory manipulation, how the power to do all of that Affects a Person; “madness”, addiction, lip-service being paid to those not being a person’s moral failing that is not borne out by visual, audio, or interactive aesthetics what a tragic waist I accidentally…
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Occlude Thought
Last week I blasted through Pantaloon Software’s Occlude (“A Game of Occult Solitaire”). I got all the endings and all the coins in like six hours? I told multiple people that my brain is broken in the right way for it – like oh so many puzzle games, sometimes you can just see what to…
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Systems of Faith
Response to the first half of the third episode of Paper Labyrinths (a game design conversation podcast by my discord pals Brendan and Nic), and here is my response to Nic’s offhand musing about the possibility of systematizing faith in a game.
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Snowuary 2025 – Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
(Autumn, from the Ranged Touch Discord, encouraged people to play snowy games in January and February and write about them. I used this opportunity to motivate my return to Silent Hill: Shattered Memories a game whose snowy town and chases have stuck with me for 15+ years. Also, I wanted to play it again before…
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Snowuary 2025 – Mafia II
(Autumn, from the Ranged Touch Discord, encouraged people to play snowy games in January and February and write about them. I used this opportunity to motivate my return to Mafia II, a game whose snowy beginnings have stuck with me for nearly 15 years). Second Snowuary 2025 post, on Silent Hill: Shattered Memories What I…
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
This essay discusses lots of parts of Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, from its beginning to its end and from what is on the screen to what is in the mind. It becomes clear pretty early on in Lorelei and the Laser Eyes that you might not be Lorelei, and that this might not be…