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i can think of no other series where the source of horror is derived more exclusively from what is implied rather than what is actively shown or obscured. From the inscrutability of another's intentions, paired with our own readiness to read danger into their strange gesticulations and stilted cadence. The presence of almost pitifully freakish "monsters" writhing beyond playable boundaries in what could just as easily be orgasm as agony. The distressing gurgles, expulsions, and phallic exaggerations of beings driven by unadulterated libidinal energy. Silent Hill's insight: Hell is not just other people; it is caused by other people. It comes easier to see, then, for the miracle that it is, how consistently the journey through hell leads to the foundation of better things. To the possibilities of life, love, truth, and even beauty. Every Silent Hill game thus has aligned you with someone deeply personal to yourself worth fighting for: a missing daughter, a dead wife, an avenged father. Silent Hill 4 is a game about saving total strangers. The titular room, traveled between by you alone via umbilical-like tubeways (room=womb), beginning as your greatest healer and sole sanctuary, contrary the otherworld, turned worst oppressor (not even mentioning Sullivan's mother complex) is as mechanistically intuitive the series's Freudian metaphors come. That Townshend is the least impressionable of all previous protagonists is no mistake because he is a symbol of the monad, which proves false not because it is wrong but because it is impossible. Because even our isolation becomes haunted by others. Because every problem is interpersonal. Every experience interexperiential. And so even the girl next door becomes a reason to live.

literally the most wretched shit imaginable. glossy prestige tier higurashi rip with no humanity and no ideas. just thinking about it makes my blood pressure go infinite

miserable to play. even switching between the menus feels like moving through maple syrup. lame and miserable and bad

this game calling me fat when i was 13 certainly didn't help my body image issues

Cool game but when i downloaded genshin on my pc, my mom texted me "me and your dad are going through tough times recently" and then that same night she told me to choose a side her or my dad i chose her and i offically became fatherless.

Habbo

2000

This game has more pedos than genshin

I DIDNT ASK IF YOU WERE SAD AND HAVE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

GET YOUR ASS IN THE CLAN WAR

Genuinely no clue how to rate this game since it changed so much over the years. Probably closer to an 8 near the start and a 6 towards the end so I guess I'll just split the difference.
RIP Overwatch 1. You didn't die the hero but you were at least a semi-consistent thing me and my friends drank and shot the shit while playing.