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Hopeless Junction
2023
i've been a fan of nadia nova's work since i first read can you say my name again as a young trans girl and i've been hearing a lot of good things about this VN, so im very happy to see it totally surpass my expectations. it's a very messy and at times heavy story, but it's executed in a way that feels grounded and real, instead of gratuitous or overly indulgent. i have a lot more feelings on this that are harder to quantify, but needless to say i definitely recommend it.
Crow Country
2024
Takes several pages out of the Silent Hill 3 playbook - it’s a story about a dual-identity teenage girl getting revenge on an unfair world (at the same time delving into a Keatsian bower realm of blood, shit and hair) with all the ambience to back it up…. for maybe the first 5 minutes? The enemy designs are really dumb, sorry. There’s a couple jumpscares that did get me (owed largely to some excellent sound design) but all tension evaporates like a fart in the wind when you see the first slug-thing enemy on the ground lol. Keeps narrative on a backfoot, all puzzles very intuitively designed, overall well-constructed and never overlong - by all measures, an excellent outing for the dev! Any RE/SH fan is gonna get a nice 10 hours out this one. Only complaint is there isn’t a nasty crow-man Mr. X chasing you throughout the game, but I guess if you want that, you can just play Fear & Hunger.
uma boa história, ótima direção e personagens junto com top 3 melhores performances que eu já vi (troy baker e ashley johnson como joel e ellie)... que infelizmente estão presos no jogo mais insuportavelmente chato que eu consigo imaginar. Honestamente eu me divirto mais batendo a minha cabeça na parede do que com os "puzzles" de levar escada dali até aqui.