ACIDVEIN
“Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back.”
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim in Tinker Creek
Beautifully written, simple yet not simplistic, evokes similitude for things I have never experienced.
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim in Tinker Creek
Beautifully written, simple yet not simplistic, evokes similitude for things I have never experienced.
2020
This review contains spoilers
An idiosyncratic horror game, gut-wrenching and unflinching.
Perfect Vermin does not create fear, instead, it inspires a more complicated feeling, a sentiment that resides wedged between sorrow and dread.
The gross glorification of 'graceful suffering' often places an unfair expectation on victims by limiting what they can and can't express in fear of creating discomfort for others. I applaud Perfect Vermin for its portrayal of terminal illness.
Dying is ugly, it is cruel, and it is undoubtedly dark, to shy away from that is a great disservice to those who are suffering.
Perfect Vermin is a short game, likely to be completed in under 10 minutes, but the echo of it will remain far longer than that.
Perfect Vermin does not create fear, instead, it inspires a more complicated feeling, a sentiment that resides wedged between sorrow and dread.
The gross glorification of 'graceful suffering' often places an unfair expectation on victims by limiting what they can and can't express in fear of creating discomfort for others. I applaud Perfect Vermin for its portrayal of terminal illness.
Dying is ugly, it is cruel, and it is undoubtedly dark, to shy away from that is a great disservice to those who are suffering.
Perfect Vermin is a short game, likely to be completed in under 10 minutes, but the echo of it will remain far longer than that.