HorrorBuffPaddy
2024
"Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're a cunt."
best case scenario for combining The Thing with oceanic cosmic horror, imo. doesn't reach the narrative heights that A Machine For Pigs does but this is such a taut experience throughout - I'm a mark for horror set on the ocean and cosmic horror so of course I really fucked with this
best case scenario for combining The Thing with oceanic cosmic horror, imo. doesn't reach the narrative heights that A Machine For Pigs does but this is such a taut experience throughout - I'm a mark for horror set on the ocean and cosmic horror so of course I really fucked with this
it's fine. melted my brain into goo. COD's at it's best when it's being fucking stupid (intentionally or not) and this is a pretty stupid fucking game!
2024
extremely simple but I think this hosts the type of tension that Buckshot Roulette was so clearly going for. was shitting bricks in the middle of the day - a sign of some pretty effective horror, if you ask me
2001
"You made me happy."
haven't played this in years - I've always loved it, but as a side effect of playing this in my mid-teens I don't think I was really capable of understand just how fucking staggering this thing is - I can count on one hard the amount of times a piece of art has gotten to me this deeply. tackles so many different topics and handles them all with the care they require, and it's also just a deeply scary game, at least to me; the atmosphere here puts such a fucking pit in my stomach. feels trite to call this one of the all-time best works of art in general but that's just how it is. the final letter is genuinely one of the most gutwrenching things I've ever read/heard
haven't played this in years - I've always loved it, but as a side effect of playing this in my mid-teens I don't think I was really capable of understand just how fucking staggering this thing is - I can count on one hard the amount of times a piece of art has gotten to me this deeply. tackles so many different topics and handles them all with the care they require, and it's also just a deeply scary game, at least to me; the atmosphere here puts such a fucking pit in my stomach. feels trite to call this one of the all-time best works of art in general but that's just how it is. the final letter is genuinely one of the most gutwrenching things I've ever read/heard
2012
one of those things where I went into it expecting to be terrible and it was somehow even worse then I expected. longest 3.5 hours of my life
2001
completely kicked my ass. have a few issues with this (mainly the camera and that the final boss is kinda bad/unenjoyable, even if I only really dislike the first phase) but really I can't complain about a game that made me actually proud of myself for beating it. dante must die will take years off my life
some of the absolute most embarassing AAA slop out there, insane that these were the guys that went on to make Dying Light
2014
the ideal horror game, really. what they don't want you to hear is that the pacing of this game is good, actually
2019
This review contains spoilers
love that the central thesis of this is that if you are severely mentally ill you are irreparably broken and will either die or succumb to your extremely violent impulses. this fucking blows, easily the worst thing with the name Blair Witch - when it's not being boring as shit, it's stealing from the movies and all it really made me want to do is watch the movies again. fuck this lol
2015
"Maybe he just liked making prisons."
yeah no I barely know how to approach writing about this so I'm just not going to. what am I even supposed to say to this? I can only really respond with superlatives, like "the most I've seen myself reflected in a piece of art ever", "the most I've cried to a piece of art in forever" etc etc. Broke down weeping during the final game and I never really stopped until I hit the credits - it's an experience where I feel like it's deeply important to me, even if I don't understand how yet. fuck, man.
yeah no I barely know how to approach writing about this so I'm just not going to. what am I even supposed to say to this? I can only really respond with superlatives, like "the most I've seen myself reflected in a piece of art ever", "the most I've cried to a piece of art in forever" etc etc. Broke down weeping during the final game and I never really stopped until I hit the credits - it's an experience where I feel like it's deeply important to me, even if I don't understand how yet. fuck, man.
2017
stem is literally just the human instrumentality project. would be much better if it wasn't for Theodore!
2022
"She'll never dance with us again, no matter what we do."
Or:
"PERHAPS, THIS IS HELL."
What do I even say to this, man? This has been a game I've been meaning to play for a very, very long time and I'm glad I finally finished it, because holy shit. Might write a big review later but I'm too stunned at the moment, that ending genuinely knocked all the air out of me and is pretty easily the closest a game has come to making me cry in ages. fuck.
Or:
"PERHAPS, THIS IS HELL."
What do I even say to this, man? This has been a game I've been meaning to play for a very, very long time and I'm glad I finally finished it, because holy shit. Might write a big review later but I'm too stunned at the moment, that ending genuinely knocked all the air out of me and is pretty easily the closest a game has come to making me cry in ages. fuck.
The evils of industrialism and capitalism as framed through the lens of cosmic horror; the fact that we let people believe Outlast is better then this is a fucking crime.
2017
"Motherfucking no."
in the club where I think this is miles better than the first game (there's dozens of us!!) - really, if the game didn't totally flub it's ending story-wise I wouldn't hesitate to call this a great game. The atmosphere here is second to none, especially the school sections which routinely scared the shit out of me (the first big scare that legitimately made me shout) and the chases are usually really tense and well designed! I really do not get the trial and error criticism because I never found myself getting lost for long periods of time, and I'm a fucking moron!
more bullet points because I'm eepy and don't feel like writing
- I have a soft spot for blood rain so I immediately adored chapter 4
- the transitions to the flashbacks (for the most part) were incredible, legitimately stunned me almost every time it happened
- fully understand why you'd hate how extreme this thing goes with the gore but idk, I really liked just how far it takes its extremity. SA stuff still fucking blows though.
all in all I really liked this for the most part! Everyone's wrong, this rocks
in the club where I think this is miles better than the first game (there's dozens of us!!) - really, if the game didn't totally flub it's ending story-wise I wouldn't hesitate to call this a great game. The atmosphere here is second to none, especially the school sections which routinely scared the shit out of me (the first big scare that legitimately made me shout) and the chases are usually really tense and well designed! I really do not get the trial and error criticism because I never found myself getting lost for long periods of time, and I'm a fucking moron!
more bullet points because I'm eepy and don't feel like writing
- I have a soft spot for blood rain so I immediately adored chapter 4
- the transitions to the flashbacks (for the most part) were incredible, legitimately stunned me almost every time it happened
- fully understand why you'd hate how extreme this thing goes with the gore but idk, I really liked just how far it takes its extremity. SA stuff still fucking blows though.
all in all I really liked this for the most part! Everyone's wrong, this rocks
"what if we made outlast.......but good?"