Wow what a fucking game, one that I will hold in my heart for decades to come. It took me a whole year to finally come around and properly get into gtav’s story, but god am I so glad I did. This game quickly became one of my favorites of all time. It holds one of my favorite casts ever and my favorite dynamic ever being trevor and michael. Im pleasantly surprised with the genuine substance gtav’s story holds as well. It’s such a good satire of american capitalism and critque on materialism consumerism and hyper capitalism, and the dysfunctional isolated family found under capitalism as conveyed through michael and his central conflict with his family. How both trevor and michael exploit under the framework of capitalism but they do so in different, almost polar opposite ways. The juxtaposition between trevor’s unhinged and raw realness, and michael’s superficial “plasticness”. Trevor’s literal cannibalism versus michael’s metaphorical cannibalism, and the moral question of “is michael truly morally better than trevor when he’s doing the same thing as him, just less literal and less ugly”. At the start the game show’s trevor as this animal, and michael holds himself so much higher than trevor, but he’s nothing but a hypocrite and his morals and way of life are no better than trevor’s. Its very interesting to me how only trevor seems to be able to break michael from this capitalist fantasy and dillusionment of the american dream and the nuclear family and being surrounded by so much wealth and materialism, while trevor is also exploiting those under capitalism at the same time, just in a more brutal and honest fashion. Doing crime on the streets is trevor’s dream while it’s michael’s nightmare at the same time, and creates the guilt and self loathing we see in michael. One side of him seeks the thrill, adrenaline, and chaos of crime and its unhinged realness and rebellion, while the other side craves safety and security through his family, and this typical american dream. Trevor brings out the animal in michael. Overall just a funny ass fucking game, amazing satire, and an amazing dynamic that provides for insightful analysis. I could write paragraphs upon paragraphs about michael and trevor’s dynamic but I’ll save that for another space. There’s a reason for gtav’s massive success, fame, and legacy. Its one of those games that I believe everyone should sit down and play. I’m sad to be done with my journey with this beloved game, but I know there’s hours and hours of fun to be experienced with the online mode for me.

I really liked the concept of this game and the atmosphere but holy fuck are the controls DOGSHIT. Every second of playing this shit is pure misery there is zero enjoyment. The stiff controls, the choppy camera angle transitions the severe lack of health items coupled with how it only takes a few hits to get killed and having to manage 2 characters health. I wanted to love re0 but over time I gained such hatred for this game. This is the hardest game I have ever played and this is coming from someone who has played bloodborne and dark souls etc. There is no enjoyment in re0 besides giving yourself the biggest migraine ever. It took me 10 hours just to reach the halfway point in this game. The most obnoxious mechanic is the limited inventory and the fact that you have to pick up SO many items during the game jesus fucking christ. I didn’t finish this game I never fucking will, I’m still logging this as finished and writing a review idc. My breaking point was getting to the church and. it knowing that you still needed the hook shot to advance when I had gotten rid of that shit for more inventory space LONG ago, there was no way in hell I was finding that shit again or restarting this hellish game all over. I have no desire to play this game and finish it. Mad respect to those who have finished this game.

Let me just preface this by saying that this is one of the greatest games, and pieces of media that I’ve ever had the honor of experiencing. And this may very well be my favorite silent hill game (however my love for sh1 and sh2 runs so strong). Heather is such a phenomenal main character, I’d say I enjoyed her more than James. She has got to be the most realistic portrayal of a teenage girl in fiction, which is impressive given how little this is achieved. Heather being the same age as I am currently, I was able to empathize with her even more, it made the experience of playing as her more personal. Claudia was such an unnerving and eerie figure, her resemblance to my own mother both un looks and religious obsession had me spooked. I loved how sh3 returned to the cult and religious origins of sh1, continuing the story of Alessa. The story of Alessa is one of the most tragic and intriguing for me. A girl who endures extreme religious ans cult abuse and medical trauma, causing her to split herself into two (a clear representation of DID), and now she has cursed the town of Silent Hill and bestows physiological horrors on anyone who dares to explore it. To me what is so special about silent hill 3 is how it explores womanhood through the lense of horror just like bloodborne (another one of my favs). This aspect of the game made it the most terrifying game in the series for me, and something I emphasized with DEEPLY. Especially the aspect of forced/unwanted pregnancy. And then you have the aspects of stalking, and the sick twisted romantic and sexual obsession that men have with women they attempt to pursue (as shown through stanley in the hospital boy was that unnerving). But the most terrifying part for me was the final encounter between Claudia ans Heather. Them in the chapel, Heather being unaware of the God growing inside of her, every woman’s worse nightmare. To me, Heather throwing up the red deformed God which is then ingested by Claudia herself was the most blood curdling and unnerving scene for me that left me with an indescribable feeling, and still does. This final encounter between Heather and Claudia which leads into the boss fight against the God is one of my favorite final sequences and final bosses in all of gaming. I remember hearing “uneternal sleep” play for the first time around 1:30 am, and being filled with such a feeling. The way the track paints the scene and feeling of ascending into heaven with God is so phenomenal. Another one of my favorite sections of the game was the boss fight against Alessa on the nightmare carousel, WOW what a genuinely eerie and trippy fight and setting, especially with the track “prayer” playing—one of my favorite tracks off the ost that I can never listen to for long before getting genuinely scared. What I love so much about silent hill is its ability to make me seriously feel like I’m in another reality, another dimension, another state of mind. Easily hands down the greatest piece of psychological media to ever touch earth. Silent hill 3 has some of the greatest art and atmosphere in the game, not to mention the phenomenal soundtrack that is on par with the sh2 soundtrack. One of my favorite aspects of the sh3 soundtrack is that many of the tracks have a religious monologue that starts playing over it, this scared the shit out of me the first time listening to it, but it drives me crazy in the best way possible now. I cannot get enough of the crazy cult and religious stuff presented in silent hill 3. We are so blessed to have silent hill 3. I am forever grateful that I am alive at the same time when silent hill exists.

This game is grossly over hated by the silent hill community. To expect a game to live up to what came before it is absurd. Despite my own gripes with this game such as the ending sequence being underwhelming and walter’s conclusion not fleshed out enough, as well as the second half of the game not being executed as well as it could have and feeling redundant to play through, I still enjoyed this game and its concepts. What silent hill 4 does that is so phenomenal is that it completely changes the idea of a safe room. The fact that part way through the game you can no longer heal in your apartment, but instead take damage from “hauntings” that occur is so fantastic. I really liked the different hauntings that took place in the apartment. Also I liked the ghost enemies and how characters that had died in the game would come back to haunt and harass the player later on—that was cool. Walter’s character and story were the most intriguing to me, we have this presumably young boy who was orphaned by his parents, and then is raised by the twisted Wish House and indoctrinated into silent hill’s twisted cult and religion, believing that apartment 302 itself is his mother and that he must perform 21 sacraments to free her by killing 21 people. The fact that each victim is killed and has their heart taken and a certain number carved into their flesh is so intriguing to me. And then its revealed that both older and younger Walter are present in the game, both being dead but younger Walter manifesting in the real world and older Walter in the twisted world he created. And then you have older Walter meeting his younger self throughout the game, that really fucked with my mind. Then there is Eileen, my other favorite character here. I thought that it was very peculiar but interesting how she became more possessed throughout the game—possessed with Walter’s thoughts and being. I also really liked Jasper as a character and his peculiar way of talking. Another thing I really liked about silent hill 4 that sets it apart from the first three games is its cutscenes. The way they played with the camera and images to make it almost look like real footage from the real world but it also had a dream like or nightmare like mechanic to it. Its hard to explain but anyone who has played this game will know what I’m referring to. This game was also genuinely unnerving to me at certain points, I think this may have been the scariest silent hill for me. This game did not disappoint with its ost or atmosphere. I love silent hill 4.

One of the greatest games I’ve ever had the privilege of experiencing, I am so fucking happy that bloodborne was my first introduction into the soulsborne games because wow what a ride this was. As this game was the very first soulsborne game I played and finished it will always have a special place in my heart and will likely be my favorite soulsborne game from now on or at least one of my favorites. Bloodborne is easily one of the best if not THE best entry in the series. There is just so much I need to say and I’ll try to keep this short but I don’t know if I can. This game was one hell of a journey, when I first played it, it was pure hell. Before I knew what the fuck I was doing or was familiar with all the mechanics central yarhnam was pure hell, I died countless times and took hours just to reach the first brick troll. It was pure agony, I experienced all 5 stages of grief and almost didn’t want to continue. I remember almost avoiding playing bloodborne because it was just so taxing and time consuming, but I am so fucking happy that I didn’t lose my will and pushed through the beginning of this game. After endless hours of struggling and frustration I decided to just search up a walk through, and once I started using the walk through everything changed and I began to love bloodborne. From there on I still had moments of frustration but things definitely got a lot easier and less infuriating. I actually found a majority of the bosses in this game to be incredibly easy and I was able to beat almost all of them within 1-4 attempts. The bosses that stuck out to me as more challenging were the blood starved beast, micolash, maria, and gehrman (to an extent) but none of these were overly difficult and I still had a lot of fun fighting them. Now orphan of kos on the other hand is the hardest fucking boss I have ever encountered in gaming thus far, and I still have not been able to beat him yet. People were not lying when they said orphan of kos was the hardest in the game and one of the hardest in the entire series, this boss does not fuck around. I will say despite the difficulty, orphan of kos is one of my favorite bosses of all time if not my favorite of all time, given the beautiful and haunting setting of the boss and the eerie but beautiful track that plays during it (one of my favorites off the ost) and just the story and lore behind the fight itself is the most gut wrenching thing to me ever. It almost makes me too sick to even fight the orphan. The fact that I am here as a blood lust hunter slaughtering the orphan who has just been born of its mothers corpse who was killed by the blood lust hunters beforehand who couldn’t stop their search for knowledge and insight, as the orphan screams and cries for its mother is just so deeply unsettling. Upon watching the cutscene for orphan of kos the first time when entering the area, I was filled with such a dreadful unsettled feeling. Bloodborne truly feels like a horror game at times which is why it’s so phenomenal. This game has one of the best settings and atmospheres in all of media, you just cannot top its victorian gothic setting and architecture and its black, gray, red, orange, dark blue, purple color palette. I loved every single area in the game but the nightmare of mensis, cainhurst castle, fishing hamlet village, research hall/facility, and yarhnam were my favs. I also absolutely loved the place where the bagman takes you for the first time in the jail, the haunting choir that places in that area is phenomenal. I also really enjoyed byrgenwerth as an area and its rich lore. The combat of bloodborne is pure perfection. Its everything I want in a hack and slash. I’ve always preferred fast paced aggressive combat opposed to slow combat that emphasizes defense, so bloodborne was perfect for me. I could play this game for hours straight and not get tired. I could also see myself replaying this game over and over and just never getting sick of it. Its such a rich game with so much to explore and so much cool and creative enemy variety. The art is fucking phenomenal in this game. May I add that bloodborne has one of the greatest osts in gaming and in media in general, I find myself listening to it so often. Its just so haunting, melancholic, rich with emotion, and the latin vocals present are to die for. Gehrman the first hunter, orphan of kos, laurence the first vicar, and mergos lullaby are easily my favorites off of the ost but each track is amazing. Now let me talk about the ending and final fight with gehrman and just how peak that was. Easily my favorite final boss in a game, god the workshop being a lit with flames and the haunting moon hanging in the sky, and the beautiful vast field of white flowers with gehrman’s chilling theme playing. Everything about it is perfection. And the cutscene that playing of him standing up from his wheelchair and then going “tonight gehrman joins the hunt” is one of the coldest lines of dialogue ever and gets me so fucking hyped every god damn time. Holy fuck I love bloodborne SO FUCKING MUCH. Such an incredibly fun and engaging boss that is one again not too difficult. His weapon is bad ass as fuck let me say myself. I love his quick and agile moveset, I always prefer more human bosses who are quick like gehrman. I was so melancholic when I got to gehrman and the end of bloodborne because I didn’t want my transcendental experience with the game to be over just yet, thankfully I still had the DLC left (one of the greatest DLCs ever). All 3 endings to bloodborne are phenomenal, I really enjoyed moon presence being the true final boss, I just wish it was a bit harder boss. But the cut scene of the moon presence coming down to the hunter is just so enthralling. Lady Maria is my other favorite boss in this game, she’s also my favorite character in bloodborne. I fell in love with her character design immediately and the lore behind her is so compelling and sad. She was so much fun to fight, she also has one of the coldest boss cut scenes. Her moveset reminds a bit of vergil from dmc if he was actually a challenge boss. Her blood attacks and her blood being on fire was so fucking cool to me just wow. And her tragic story of how she went to the hamlet village and was over taken by the guilt of seeing all of the villagers now transformed into odd fish creatures and the slaughtering of kos, which led her to throw her weapon down the well and then kill herself, and now she’s forever guarding that awful secret and the astral clock tower. Bloodborne is just so rich with story and lore, it has one of the best stories in gaming and media in my honest opinion. The way it presents womanhood, pregnancy, motherhood, and so much lore through a lense of horror similar to silent hill 3 is just fucking phenomenal and drives me crazy. After I first finished bloodborne I could not stop myself from consuming every single bloodborne lore and story video on youtube, and could not stop watching video essay after video essay on the game. There is so much to say about bloodborne but just not enough time or space. The way the game goes from a simple victorian gothic horror with people plagued as beasts and then delves into eldritch horror and the cosmos, playing around with dreams and nightmares and different levels of consciousness and planes of existence is one of the greatest things ever and one of the most unique things I’ve seen in gaming. There’s a theory that each place you visit in bloodborne is on a different plane of existence and it’s one of my personal favorite interpretations. I simply cannot express my love for bloodborne enough. If you are wondering whether to play it or not I encourage you 100% that you do because I promise you will never regret it no matter how difficult and frustrating the game is at the beginning. My love for bloodborne is eternal.

INCREDIBLE GAME, by far my favorite mgs game. I love the premise of this game especially as someone who has always had a passion for history, politics, and the cold war this game immediately drew in my attention. I really liked the whole mechanic of having to eat food to keep up your stamina and having to find animals in the wild, I love that survival feel that mgs3 provided. I thought the healing mechanic was really cool as well. Snake is just so fucking cool in this game and looks phenomenal especially with his eye patch in the end, it looks so fucking cold. Such an incredible cast of entertaining characters and cutscenes, I loved everyone in this game but ocelot was by far the star for me. Such an entertaining, over the top, flamboyant dude who can’t stop twirling his guns every two seconds he’s easily my favorite mgs character over all. I really enjoyed his dialogues while fighting snake. Eva was fucking amazing too and so was the boss. A cool aspect that I love so much about mgs is the inclusion of actual historical and political footage used for the cutscenes, that shit makes me go crazy as a huge history buff. Mgs3 has such a good ost too, and the main theme snake eater is just such a phenomenal song that I’m constantly playing on repeat. I REALLY liked the final sections and last 2ish hours of the game, I actually found the motorcycle chase to be incredibly fun to play through. And the ending sequence and fight with the boss was just peak. Insane cutscene, insane fight, and perfect setting for a final boss fight. One of my favorite ending sequences of all time, the flowers turning white to red as the boss dies was just peak fiction. And the later scene of a sorrowful grieving snake at the boss’s grave really resonated with me. I love mgs so much and I can’t wait to see what the other games have in store.

The greatest disappointment I have ever experienced in my life and the single most overrated piece of media and story to ever exist holy shit. This game was such a fucking slog to get through I don’t know how I even managed to its sorry end. I will forever be baffled as to how people could ever consider this game their favorite or a top piece of media in all of fiction. Everything about this god damn game is so painfully generic not a single thing stands out. The music was fine at first but became so repetitive and grating on the ears. Nothing special about the art or graphics just your average anime style game. Generic ass open world setting nothing worth noting about it. Generic characters and personalities not a single thing about the characters or stories resonated with me at all or invoked anything within me except pure boredom and disappointment. I don’t get the hype around nier at all or how the story is supposed to be peak fiction. I even watched all the other endings and still nothing stands out. Nier is just so painfully mid, I was hoping automata would be better than replicant but it somehow ended up being even fucking worse and pissing me off even more. At least replicant had kaine, automata has fucking nothing. Don’t even get me started on the shit ass gameplay and combat of this game and how much of a slog it was to get through, the amount of bosses and enemies that the game forced you to defeat purely by spamming projectiles is fucking RIDICULOUS. This was the most enraging part of the game for me and made me feel like I was back in dmc2 for fucks sake. There is absolutely no reason for a game this new to be forcing the player to spam projectiles to defeat enemies let alone bosses. Once again I am so angry that I wasted 10 hours of my precious time on this sorry ass fucking game. I’m never touching this piece of dogshit again and I never want to see it in my face ever.

Let’s just say I was highly impressed with this game, I’ve always taken a huge liking to indie horror rpgs and mad father did not disappoint at all. It’s just one of those games that you must play in the indie horror rpg genre. It’s always pleasantly shocking to me how games like mad father and other indie horror rpgs can create such a good gaming experience and convey such a good story with such little content and budget. I absolutely adore every design and detail about this game and its ost is phenomenal. Fun engaging and challenging puzzles as well, and suspenseful plot twists that really had me invested. All three endings to the game were fucking amazing. I throughly enjoyed my time playing through mad father even though I had backloggd it for years. I likely will find myself back replaying the game sometime in the future. I was tempted to give this game 4 and a half stars, but a solid strong 4 stars is a good rating I think, nothing too shabby to complain about.

Mid ass fucking game holy shit, I can’t believe I wasted 16 and a half hours playing this piece of shit. Replicant did not meet my expectations AT ALL, this is not peak story or peak fiction. Automata better not disappoint the way replicant did. Only good thing about this game is the music, and the decent combat. Everything else is shit and the story and characters bored me to death except for kaine, the only good character in this game and the only character giving this game the smallest bit of worth. Not gonna waste my time playing through the other endings, I dont care if they improve the story. I’ll search up some summaries of the other endings thats it. Never touching this shit again.

WOW what a phenomenal sequel. I know this is very controversial to say, but I think I like tlou2 a bit more than the first game, and I think the story in tlou2 holds up very well to the first game. Abby has been my favorite character in the franchise since day one so I was very excited to finally see her in this game, and it did not disappoint at all. I love seeing ellie grown in this game and her relationship with dina is fucking everything to me, especially as a lesbian myself. Ellie leaving dina at the farm was such a painful moment. I was sad to see joel die so early in the game, his death is one of the most gut wrenching moments in media for me I don’t think I can ever watch it again. And initially I began having mixed feelings and a bit of bitter feelings towards abby but that quickly changed once I started playing her side of the story. Abby is seen as such a compassionate and protective individual with her teammates, and this resonates deeply with me. Also her relationship with her father and how much she loved him, it makes sense why she avenged his death so brutally with her killing of joel. I don’t know how anyone could hate abby after playing through her part and seeing genuinely how compassionate and a good person she is. Joel isn’t a totally good person either, he killed abby’s father and selfishly chose ellie over saving humanity. Abby had every right to kill him. After all tlou2 is just a story of revenge, and abby sought revenge just as ellie did. They are no different from one another. I really like how throughout the game you can see ellie and abby begin to hate each other less, and seek revenge less with abby letting ellie go both times and ellie letting abby go in the boat at the end. Now usually, I’m a vengeful person who sees justice in revenge, so I was a bit hesitant about how much I would like tlou2’s story since it shows how revenge isnt the answer and is fruitless, only destroying someone in the process, but I surprisingly really liked the story in the end and I think it was handled well. It created a sharp divide in the fandom, and brought out a visceral reaction. Abby is also an extremely relatable character who resonates with me deeply, and is a character I see myself in A LOT. She has become so important to me and one of my favorite characters in all of media. Seeing a masculine woman in media always means so much to me. I really enjoyed her bond with lev as well, seeing trans rep through lev was amazing too. The combat in this game is fucking peak and somehow even better than the first game, some of the best combat I’ve seen and experienced in all of gaming. Tlou2 has such stunning visuals and scenery, the farm was my favorite. I can’t wait to see what happens next in tlou2, I really hope to see more of abby.

Man where do I even start with this phenomenal game, easily an S tier resident evil game and a top 3 resident evil game for me. Biohazard truly was the savior for the resident evil series after the abominations of re5 and re6. Similar to my experience with re8, when I first played re7 at a friends house I was not impressed with it at all. I did not care at all for mia or ethan and the whole game was just incredibly confusing. I also did not find it to be scary at all for some reason and hated the controls. But after I completed re8 and really enjoyed its mechanics and got super attached to ethan and the winters family I was super excited to try re7 again and it did not disappoint at all. Upon playing this game the second time it was absolutely terrifying holy shit in the best way possible. Getting chased around by jack baker in that house and marguerite was no damn joke. Overall re7 has one of my favorite settings and atmospheres in the entire franchise, there truly is nothing scarier than some janky ass house in the swamps of louisiana with equally terrifying white people. Everything about this game is perfect to me, the baker family is genuinely so interesting and some of my favorite villains in the series, I pissed myself laughing each time Lucas was on screen and the birthday cake puzzle is one of my favorite puzzles in all of gaming. All of the puzzles and areas to explore in the game were all super engaging and enjoyable. Another aspect I really liked from biohazard was the vhs tapes mechanic and how you could play as the characters in the tapes, that was so fucking cool to me and really makes biohazard stand out as a game. The voice acting from the baker family especially from marguerite was just fucking phenomenal, it sounded so incredibly real and was just so terrifying. I also really enjoy ethan in this game even if he’s less developed and has less of a character than in re8, I still love his snarky attitude cussing at everything he encounters. And I absolutely love mia in this game her design is perfect and I love her interactions and conflicting dynamic with ethan, the ending with these two in the helicopter was so sweet and definitely pulled at my heart strings. Ethan and Mia are easily my favorite couple in the whole re franchise, so I have a bias favoritism for them. The true star of this game had to be Eveline though, I love every single thing about her character from her character design to her motives to her personality and to her backstory and history. She is easily my favorite re villain/antagonist and I personally believe she is among the best in the game, if not THE best. I just love deranged little girls in media so much, and we really don’t see enough of them. Her whole story of being turned into a bio weapon and simply just wanting a family is actually heart breaking and makes her character so endearing for me. I greatly enjoyed myself every time she was on screen, and some of the best moments from the whole game included her. In my personal opinion we did not see enough of Eveline in this game. I love how everything ties into re8 and mother miranda, and I am so excited to play the shadows of rose dlc and see more of Eveline and her dynamic with Rose. The ending to this game was just incredible, I loved how it all tied back to the beginning with Ethan ending back up in the guest house where he started. Its my absolute when endings in media circle back to the beginning. My favorite part from the whole ending and game is when Ethan injects Eveline and she turns out to be the grandma in the wheel chair that was placed throughout the game in the background, seeming to have no importance. That was so shocking and incredibly good to me, an amazing plot twist. This game is a perfect 5 star game to me, I do not care about the re fans who hate on it just because of ethan or because it’s one of the newer re games. That is such a stupid mentality to me. Biohazard is peak.

This was the first mgs game I was able to play myself after watching an mgs1 gameplay, and wow it did not disappoint. This was a great introduction to the mgs series and its mechanics and I had a lot of fun with it, the gameplay was solid and pretty fun. Mgs2 really shines when it comes to the story and cutscenes, all the cut scenes were very engaging and I was interested by every character introduced and loved each and every one. Raiden is my absolute mgs fav so far, so him being the protagonist of this game made me incredibly happy. He has one of my favorite character designs ever and a very intriguing personality and back story. I can’t wait to see more of him in the other mgs games. Finishing the last section of this game felt like an absolute fever dream in the best way possible, I did not expect the game to get so good and psychological like that but I loved every second of it. The whole thing with true reality versus fake reality and ai and virtual reality was so amazing, and really connected to the present day. And the whole thing with masks and true self was just so good. I also really liked the ending dialogue and sentiment about passing on genetic code to your children but also passing on joy, sorrow, passion, the future and so much more. The ending cut scene with raiden and rose, and how he gently embraced her face with his hands was so beautiful and really pulled at my heart, and raiden being a father was such a surprise but in a good way to me. The cut scenes in this game that featured real people were so cool to me as well. The beautiful ass song that played during the credits was so good as well, I cannot wait to play more of mgs and explore the series.

Wow what a phenomenal game that did not disappoint one bit. I had been wanting to get into tlou for ages but didn’t have a play station until the past year. This game always looked so intriguing and good to me before even playing it and I was not disappointed at all. Joel and Ellie are such phenomenal characters and easily two of my favorite characters of all time, their dynamic is everything to me, the second game will be absolutely gut wrenching for me. I am scared and excited at the same time. Overall the game had a really good cast, and just really engaging and entertaining cut scenes. I was pulled into the story and apocalyptic and dystopian atmosphere and story of the game right away, dystopian media will forever remain as one of my favorite genres ever. The combat and gameplay in this game were the star, I’m not kidding when I say that tlou has the best combat I have seen in a game so far. I throughly enjoyed myself the entire time playing this, I really liked the stealth and strategic aspect when it came down to killing enemies and being forced to really make use of the environment. I also loved the arsenal of all the different weapons and items that could be used, doing combat with upgraded melee weapons and shoving enemies faces into drawers and curb stomping them into the ground was so incredibly satisfying and adrenaline inducing. I’ve been told that the combat in the second game is even better which really has me pumped, and I’m just super excited to see the story in tlou2 and Ellie when she’s older and to meet Abby since I’ve taken a huge liking to her (and she’s honestly my favorite character in the franchise despite how controversial she is).

Man where do I even start with such a phenomenal game such as silent hill 2. This was one of the best gaming experiences and media experiences in general that I have ever had and ever will have. Silent hill especially silent hill 2 is an experience that cannot be encompassed by words, a literal transcendental experience. Silent hill 2 is so so fucking perfect and tailored to everything I’m looking for in a game and piece of media it drives me insane. Everyday I feel so lucky and blessed to be alive during the same time in which silent hill and silent hill 2 exist. Silent hill 2 is a game that I wish everyone one day is able to experience. This game is such a genuine unique one of a kind game and piece of media that we will quite literally never see in this life time again. It’s impossible to recreate or recapture what silent hill 2 accomplished. Silent hill 2 easily has the best ost and atmosphere in all of gaming and media in general, it is fucking impossible to reach the level that silent hill 2 is on. I remember first being introduced to the silent hill 2 ost on youtube through a horror ambience music playlist and have been infatuated with the game and series ever since. Silent hill’s art style and graphics and artistic fixed camera angles are what makes the game such a masterpiece and gives it that feeling that makes everyone fall in love with the game in the first place. I could go on and on and on about silent hill 2’s atmosphere and how phenomenal it is, and how it is my favorite thing ever. Silent hill 2 is easily the best survival horror game out there, we are so blessed to have it. It is genuinely the most scary, disturbing ass, sick, deranged, and twisted game and piece of media that I have ever encountered and experienced, but this is what makes me love it so much. There were so many times playing this where I was genuinely disturbed and freaked out and felt so fucking sick to my stomach and nauseous. This game is not for the faint of heart. It fucks with your mind in such a way, this is why psychological horror will forever remain the best genre. The enemies and distorted and disturbing sounds throughout the game kept me on edge the entire time. Pyramid head is such a good boss and representation of the guilt that James carries, and the cutscenes with Pyramid head are genuinely the most disturbing and sickening things I have ever witnessed in a piece of media. The final boss with Maria/Mary was just fucking amazing too, I loved everything about the boss and its setting. The cutscene where Maria/Mary turns into the boss scared the absolute shit out of me and is genuinely one of the most disturbing scenes in silent hill. The boss itself is very freaky and is just so unsettling, but that is what makes it peak. This is why I love silent hill and silent hill 2 so damn much. The final bosses never disappoint. But silent hill 2 easily has one of my favorite final bosses and endings in all of media. I got the in water ending, and the letter that Mary wrote to James was just absolutely gut wrenching. I’m really excited to play and get the rest of the 5 endings, because silent hill 2’s story is genuinely so fucking good and one of my favorite stories in all of media. One of the best written games out there, the revelation that James himself in fact killed Mary is so fucking good and revealed in such a good way. And the burning stair case scene with Angela is one of my favorite scenes in all of media. I will love silent hill and silent hill 2 forever and will continue listening to its osts until my death bed. Silent hill 2 is my second favorite game of all time and could easily become my number one favorite game of all time.

I have so much to say about this phenomenal game and the journey I went through with it. When I first played re8 (and re7) I wasn’t really impressed, I wasn’t a big fan of the first person pov and I really struggled with the combat and mechanics with being so used to the older re games, and I found myself bored with ethan and mia and the other characters. I just didn’t really care much about anyone. So at the start I wasn’t really a fan of re7/re8 or ethan like most people and found myself irritated with re7/re8 and ethan fans. But as I gradually played re8 more, I started to really get comfortable with the game mechanics and combat and first person pov, and now I love everything about it. I’m actually going to replay re8 soon and maybe even platinum it, I’m also really fucking excited to play the shadows of rose DLC. But as I played re8 more I became really attached to ethan and fond of him, his little tantrums where he starts cussing and hitting everything make me laugh so hard and are such a comfort for me. I always liked Mother Miranda, she is such a great antagonist and has one of my favorite character designs in all of media I also really enjoy the rest of the re8 cast. The game is just so breathtaking and beautiful in a way that words cannot encapsulate. Re8 has one of my favorite atmospheres and aesthetics in all of gaming the amount of times I took to stop and take screen shots and pictures in this game is crazy. I really enjoyed the puzzles, bosses, enemies, story and just everything about this game in the end. This game also genuinely scared me and jumpscared the shit out of me on multiple occasions, contrary to popular belief I genuinely believe that re8 is one of the scariest re games in the series. This game is unsettling in a way that I think most people miss. Lady Dimitrescu and Mother Miranda were my favorite bosses in the game, I had such a fun time with these fights and the setting and atmospheres for both fights was just so stunning. Mother Miranda is also one of my favorite final boss fights of all time, just from her miraculous design and the setting and music of the fight. I also appreciated how I had to put effort in the fight against Miranda and couldn’t just bullshit it like how I did fighting Saddler and other re bosses. And just what a phenomenal fucking ending, I seriously have not been able to stop thinking about ethan ever since I finished this game a few nights ago. That was one of the most beautiful and gut wrenching endings I have ever experienced in media, and it has been so long since a media and ending has evoked that much emotion within me. Re8 seriously has one of my favorite endings of all time and I cannot wait to experience it again. Ethan’s last moments and just the emotion in his voice and his voice cracks and the way he said his final goodbyes and I love you to mia and rose just fucking broke me. The ending cut scene of rose at his grave and his grave stone engraved with “a man who put family above all else” just fucking shattered me man. My heart still hurts and I am still sick to my stomach thinking about ethan and everything he did for his daughter and family and how in the end he wasn’t even able to be with them. I am still processing re8’s ending and just how much it impacted me, and how emotional I am over it. I am so incredibly emotional and weak over characters who put their family above everything else and sacrifice quite literally everything for their family, because I empathize so hard with these characters because I too value family above everything else and would sacrifice my life in a heart beat for my family. I project so hard onto ethan. He might be my goat character for the entire year. It’s crazy to me just how quickly ethan became one of my favorite re characters and favorite characters in general and how re8 quickly became one of my favorite re games and favorite games in general. Ethan is such an amazing protagonist, Miranda is such an amazing antagonist, re8 has such a phenomenal atmosphere and setting and whole vibe to it, and the combat is incredible and very fun. Lady Dimitrescu’s castle and House Beneviento were my favorite sections from the whole game along with the Finale but I seriously loved every part of this game and I can’t wait to replay it now that I am so much more attached to ethan. I hope other people who disliked re8 and ethan at first give the game another chance and try it again, and try to change their perspective and opinion on it in a positive way, because it really is worth it and re8 is truly such a great game and ethan is truly such a goated character, protagonist, and father.