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iclimbtreestofeelalive · 7 months

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as spooky season grows ever closer, i want everyone to do themselves a favor and look at this: The Cabinet of Curiosities.

it's a website full of creepy and unnerving stories-- i used to have the anthology of them all in bound form, some of them are genuinely terrifying. they're in order from most recent to oldest, so i linked page 22 of the archive for ease of reading. here's a list of my favorites, to start you off:

- Fairy Cakes [all horror is insinuated through noise and absence of evidence afterwards]

- The Cake Made Out of Teeth [body horror, uh. cannibalism, maybe? you'll see.]

- The Tin Man's Price [not so much scary as unsettling, unlikely to keep you up at night]

- Transcript: Information Provided by an 11-Year-Old Male, Two Weeks After the Incident [shook me to the core, body horror warning]

- Quicksilver and the Stranger [not as scary, mostly just a good story. possible existentialism]

- The Talent of the Howl [again, not as scary as bittersweet.]

- The Sandman Cometh [scary, and unreality, but a very good read. highly recommend]

- Dark Valentine [child death, and everything that comes with it. this one kept me up at night, it's simple and devastatingly effective.]

feel free to reblog and add your favorites! as far as i know, they stopped updating in 2016, so it's absolutely possible to catch up and read them all. happy exploring!

#horror #halloween #writing #its honestly one of my favorite story collections #excellent atmosphere and voice #the cabinet of curiosities

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lulu2992 · 1 year

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Hearing your own eulogy is a rare privilege. That said, maybe “privilege” isn’t the word John Seed would have used…

Another scene from “that fic I’ll never write”. John’s plane has crashed and burned, and everybody believes he’s dead. Little do they know, he’s actually survived thanks to a certain Junior Deputy who, tired of using violence to try to solve everyone’s problems, impulsively took the unconscious Baptist to the bunker in which she has taken up residence. She’s only been stuck in this situation for less than two days, but it’s already becoming more complicated by the minute, and Taylor still has no idea how to get out of it.

(I know it looks like they’re already very close since she’s wearing his shirt, but they’re not. Not yet.)

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allgremlinart · 1 year

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Batman drawn by Eduardo Risso

from Batman: Broken City

#Batman Broken City #do I rec this comic? hm. yes but its one of my lower tier recs #the art is worth reading it for but I feel like some people might hate this art lol ((I love it sm....))#but honestly it gets a rec just for being a contained Batman story arc that's not super confusing/has exaggerated stakes ((noir atmosphere))#like its meh sometimes but. I do come back to it every so often #blood cw

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sylphwing · 2 months

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i like oras but going from that game to ultra sun is like man... alola is so fun i love alola

#sylph.txt #pkmn #i'm still looking for latias on the side but i rlly wanted to replay this game after replaying oras basically twice now #the music and the atmosphere r so great gahhh #and i love the characters and the story too #it genuinely makes me so joyful lol #i do have ulterior motives (shiny hunting silvally and poipole) but honestly i should've just started w this game #hoenn feels kinda.. stale? in comparison. that's too harsh a word for what i mean but i can't think of anything else jfdk #it does have some rlly good moments too tho #like being able to fly around the region on latios/latias is rlly great and the delta episode where u get to catch rayquaza #and then ride into SPACE and then catch deoxys too #it was peak “lets rely on this 10y/o to save the world” and to me that's a lot more fun than hand-holding #oh and team magma and aqua r rlly funny too lol

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jinx-you-owe-me · 2 months

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PART 17

of the dfk audiobook translation

@cnka

Bökh: „Over 20 years ago, there was also a boarding school here, as you might know. And there were teachers that were good and others that were less good. And there were Externs and Internals. And there was a boy who was as homesick as you, Uli. And who read as much as Martina. Loved cake like Matze. And wanted to become a pop star, like you, Jo. And he had an enemy. His name was Robert. He was an Extern from the town here. And although this Robert seemed the have everything the boy wanted, he still picked on him. Pushed him around and made fun of him… Well, like the Externs have done with the Internals for generations, right.“

Jo: „And vice versa.“ Bökh: „Exactly. And vice versa.“ Bökh: „…yes. And one day, the boy’s mother got sick. She was brought here to Kirchberg into the hospital and the boy snuck away from the boarding school every day to visit her. And one day he was caught by the boarding school director. And he got grounded.“

Martina: „Couldn’t he just say what was up?“ Bökh: „No, because it was a very… cold and stern man whom he didn’t trust. And Robert in turn knew from his father, who was a doctor at the hospital, that the boy’s mother was fighting for her life there. So he offered his help."

Bökh: „And so every night he layed in the boarding school bed in place of the boy. So that he could visit his mother. And then they became really good friends. Even had a band together. They weren’t all that bad.“ (sighs) Bökh: „I certainly don’t need to tell you who this boy was, right?" All of the kids in unison: „You, Herr Bökh.“ Bökh: „Exactly. And why I’m telling you this story.“ Uli: „I think I understand it.“

Matze: „So we get Chips and Lemonade?“

(chuckling)

Jo: „The Externs today aren’t like that.“ Bökh: „Jo, I obviously care about two things. Firstly; rules are well and good, but not as important as humanity. Ok? And secondly I want you to trust me, that you’re not afraid to come to me. Okay?“

The kids nod.

Bökh looks at his watch.

Bökh: „Alright. I need to get a bit of work done now.“ Martina: „But what happened to Robert?“

Bökh slumps back in his seat with a heavy sigh.

Bökh: „Ach. Robert, he… I think he later studied medicine in the city. Ah, we unfortunately lost touch.“

Jo: „Why?“ Bökh: „… Well, that- That happens sometimes when you become an adult, then… suddenly, your closed loved ones are gone.“ Jo: „… What, just like that?“

Bökh nods silently.

Bökh: „… Mhm.“ Matze: „How sad… I think friends should always stick together.“ Bökh: „Yeah, exactly.“ Jo: „Can’t you prevent that somehow?“ Bökh: „Yes. We need to look out for each other. Ok?“ Bökh: „Alright. I need to get a bit of work done now. Take your lemonades with you.“

The kids scuffle and stand up. Jo takes a bowl of chips with her as well.

Uli: „Thank you."

#das fliegende klassenzimmer #dfk 2023 audiobook translation #das fliegende klassenzimmer 2023 #dfk #tbh im confused by the twenty year thing #cause tom schilling and trystan pütter are both in their 40s #so if the characters are the same ages they wouldnt have been in school 20 years ago??#mine #ok i tried to limit the pictures so it offers a bit of atmosphere or paragraph breaks #but i felt like bökh's expressions when talking about robert were Significant so i had to include them #sorry #i honestly cant talk about it here cause you dont know roberts version of the story yet but holy shit do i have thoughts #regarding how justus talks about their falling out #im gonna keep my mouth shut.#we'll get there in part 19 and 20 and 22 #but it is so hard #OH WAIT i completely forgot to talk about that walking contradiction of a man #'rules are well and good but not as important as humanity' arent you the same guy who said #'im a bit special when it comes to punctuality. rules apply to everyone!'#in general “rules apply to everyone!” is something justus would never say #tell me you dont understand a character in one sentence #does it show that i add these tags over time?#anyway. i think this part is ready to be queued

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immediatebreakfast · 6 months

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Sometimes I wonder if despite being such a nice book Dracula is destined to have horrible adaptations that don't care about the original material, while the few good ones remain hidden for avid readers to see.

Yeah the Drcl Midnight Children manga is still shit, and it twisted all of the characters so beyond that the only thing they share is name. Warnings for sensitive content regarding sexualization with Lucy because I do warn you it gets really gross.

Shinichi Sakamoto literally had the easiest job in the world if he wanted to adapt Dracula into manga since he already has a gothic art style that could have been the perfect ring for the novel. We have already seen in the Manga Classics adaptation that you only need to draw what is happening in the novel, that's it.

Just grab your ink pen, and let Stoker's writing do the heavy lifting while you go crazy drawing all of the dresses, and the bats.

But nooooo! Everyone thinks they have the Big Brain™ to "subvert" Dracula while doing what everyone else has been doing but worse every time. The same tropes, the same complexes, the same beats, even making Dracula the protagonist. All of it feels the same, and Midnight Children does this too BUT WORSE.

It's infuriating to see Mina and Lucy portrayed like this. Also I only mention Mina and Lucy because these girls are the only characters who got any "dept" in this story, everyone else is a downright cardboat cutout, or worse a stereotype (Guess who is this one). Again, these modern writers end up being more sexist than century old irish writer with all of these "subversions" somehow.

We start with Mina Murray, a peasant girl who managed to get into Whitby's only boys academy which makes her a pariah among her peers, and subject of bullying for being first a girl, and second poor. This Mina is... pitiful.

She is not the Mina Harker/Murray Train Fiend, lady journalist, and leader of the group. This girl is only Mina in name, and in typewriter use because this is just a poor teen girl desperately trying to survive in the middle of a hellish school while surrounded by bullies. Drcl Mina is intelligent, but only in information, she tries to document just like Mina Harker, and the narrative conveniently spits on her efforts by having Dracula somehow tamper her precious typewriter.

Even with all of drcl Mina's wits I don't feel the same resolution, and admiration that I felt for Mina Harker in the novel. The manga is only presenting a poor girl named Mina scraping at every small bit of information she can find to somehow explain all of the supernatural shit she is seeing, and the sudden sickness and death of her only friend. I don't want to cheer for this Mina, I want her to grab her bag, and get the hell out of that school and out of Whitby even if it means abandoning Lucy because the conflict feels pointless. It feels like something that she can't win, or fully understand because SHE IS A CHILD.

A child that is trying so hard to be voice of the group while no one listens to her. All of Mina's qualities, and intelligence are not there because the story downright erased the epistolary format that gave her so much charm and character to make way for shock value scenes that only paint Drcl Mina as a pitiful fool going in circles for trying to win against Dracula.

We all know that Jonathan is Mina's other half, the only person who defends her, and loves more than god itself through the whole narrative. However, having Jonathan with Mina in Midnight Children could mean that Mina would have some sort of supporter, and that doesn't make room for tragedy™ so no Jonathan for Mina!

Now, talking about Lucy (Luke). How the fuck Sakamoto decided to make this Lucy a trans girl, then immediatly sexualize her in the most gross way possible. It's a new layer of grossness because in this adaptation is very textual that Lucy is trapped inside Luke, and she has to pretend to be a boy in front of everyone else except when she is alone with Mina.

It could have been a sweet, but rather tragic story about Lucy trying to overcome her own internal battle with her gender along with her trying to make sense of her upcoming tragedy masked as a chronic illness.

But no, this Lucy is passive, midly cruel, and reduced to a puppet device for gross sexual scenes that borderlines on transphobic voyeurism. Remember that Midnight Children Lucy is a TEEN.

She never lifts a finger to make the suitors stop their bullying towards Mina despite her calling her "my only friend." She never tells Mina of any pranks, nor consoles her in her lowest moments. This Lucy is every adaptation Lucy that paints her as the whore to the madonna, and somehow becomes more useless because of the rampant sexism, and the perceived sexualization that will always follow Lucy's character despite her being a symbol of purity, and the perfect victim.

Just to tell you that the first encounter between Lucy and Dracula here is on the Whitby shore, but instead of being a glance of red eyes that incites dread, teenager Lucy is alone when wolf Dracula steps on Whitby soil, and something really gross it's implied for shock value, and I had to put the phone down, and take a moment.

ALSO STOP DRAWING 15 YEARS OLD LUCY NAKED JUST STOP. IT WILL NEVER LOOK ETHEREAL NO MATTER HOW MANY FUCKING FLOWERS YOU DRAW ON THE PANEL BECAUSE THE FOCUS IS ON LUCY BEING NAKED. THERE IS LITERALLY A FUCKING PANEL WHERE LUCY IS COMPLETELY NAKED, AND EVERYONE (INCLUDING ADULT VAN HELSING) JUST STARES, AND IT HAS EVERY SINGLE INSULT ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, and that scene is so cheap edgy that I can't.

Also all of the symbolism, and mystery of the bloofer lady is gone because here vampire Lucy graphically kills the children she feeds from, so... another plot line into the trash.

#Honestly how could he grab a very straight foward story and just make it a mess #Like as beautiful as the art is the panels and the structure is all over the place #There is no clear yesterday today tomorrow and no it doesn't work to create a dream like atmosphere it really loses the thread of the plot #Why am I doing this to myself?#dracula daily #dracula #drcl midnight children #cw sexualization #cw violence

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fallowhearth · 6 months

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Both of them hated the other's ideas, and gleefully expressed that hatred with unchecked vitriol. In retrospect, they might have started sleeping together solely out of conversational exhaustion.

Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs, 2014

#incredibly underrated book #fantastic trilogy all around #surprised I don't see more people talking about it #honestly one of my favourite books of all time #it's got a murder mystery fascinating worldbuilding descriptions of escheresque city architecture colonialism and cultural imperialism #absolutely unmatched atmosphere #if you're a fan of 'what if there was a fucked up city' stories you'll like this one

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the-balancers-eye · 2 years

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actually while im on the subject and before i go to bed: twenty long years is SEVERELY underrated

#the atmosphere the rawness in his voice i feel like im THERE it tells such a story but leaves the details up to the listener #honestly it’s so good it’s soooo good #95 #lord huron

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ralsriel · 1 year

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Only two days until octopath traveler 2, I'm genuinely so excited for it!!

#octopath traveler #I'm not sure if I'll liveblog it but!! I did play the demo and honestly? I've enjoyed the first octopath but this one seems #to have improved A LOT in regards to the stories #as in more atmosphere more character interactions etc #which is super exciting #I picked Temenos first and really like him so far he's fun #I then also recruited Osvald and Ochette and ahhh there's so many things I like about them and the way #the game tells their stories #like the fact that you can choose your companion with Ochette or the way the intro for Temenos worked #i think it's neat #oh yeah also I've realized that my taste in characters is way too predictable #give me a tragic traumatized guy and/or a sarcastic soft and clever blorbo and they probably *will* be my faves #I picked Temenos because I thought 'oh hey!! a male cleric heck yeah!' and he did not disappoint in the slightest #also his dynamic with crick is very funny ngl #not sure who I'll pick as my last party member #I'll probably either go for the thief or the merchant #both because I like the jobs and I miss stealing from others without fighting them #but also because they interest me the most based on their potential concepts #I don't know anything other than what I've seen in my 3 hour playthrough of the demo btw #but yeah #OH YEAH I forgot to mention this but I think it's funny that I can mug people exclusively at night with Osvald #especially because you can manually change between day and night #crime time

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gothamcityneedsme · 1 year

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arkham origins is so great because it really is just like. Here is what everyone was like and what the world was like before batman became the most important boy in the universe.

Like. joker is a crazy murderhappy guy but like hes totally on his way to getting himself killed for a joke and mostly hes just a crime lord. Bane isnt broken yet and has like a whole faction of people so loyal to him vs how alone he becomes in later arkham. enigma doesnt even call himself the riddler and doesn't even MAKE riddles. Hes like. Sane and has a slight moral focus to his work. He wants to destroy corruption (or control it). Ras is in the shadows, planning, which we see through the dignified but cruel Shiva. Sidonis is the old guard, old crime, being destroyed by the rise of the new 'supercrime'.

Anyways. Batman fucks up all these people and puts a wrench in the works that just starts twisting. Because of Batman, Jim Gordon gets more recognition (through Jims own efforts as well but tbh some of the people Batman takes down would 1000% have gotten Jim dead i think. Its a team effort). And Gotham itself will change so much too. Part of it was crime already shifting but the Bat is such a huge fucking effect. Alfred is right when he sees how important Batman is (THE TWO OF THEM ARE!!)

mvp alfred in this game for real.

#Shitpost #honestly hatter is the odd man out here really #hes so iconic they wanted to use him but like theme and atmosphere wise its weird #he isnt one of the assassins and this game isnt an origin story for him and it isnt like. He isnt really any different?#hes the only like static character which is weird #im not mad tho because i love hatter and his appearances in these games are soooo fucking Inspired #always fantastic imagery #This post was supposed to also talk about Origind as the birth of Jokers specific obsession/love for Batman vs City being his death #and how City frames them as literally Cain and Abel which is really so much to fucking unpack I have NOT made much mental progress there #thus my lack of posting about it #because all i got is. Wow yikes!#That being said Jokers obsession born of Batman saving his life in this game. Vs City having everyone assume Batman killed the Joker.#its a whole thing. Origins and City are fucking AMAZING sister games #such huge steps up from Asylum. its amazing #asylum was an executed concept. A simple experience. A metrodvania #then this shit happened #*metroidvania #Knight is going to fucking kill me

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iamthepulta · 1 year

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I feel like I'm one of the few people who doesn't dive in and make OCs of their SSeas characters. I also don't play the game aggressively? I just kind of float around and make spreadsheets and map out my routes to get me the best cargo. I don't grind sunlight. I don't grind sphinx-stone. I pretty explicitly don't turn cannibal and I usually take the game's least bad option. But I've still gotten two ambitions and I consider myself pretty adept at SSeas at this point. Maybe that's just me...? Idk. I'm a really casual gamer. A.K. takes up 0% of my brainspace.

I think that's also a reflection on me though: I play FOR the atmosphere, not for the characters written in the setting, so it bothers me less when I see weird things, and when I do see weird things, my brain goes 'oh that's bad, +1 anarchy'.

#'Minimal-no empathy' is what I usually see in that kind of writing though. There's no thought about who it affects #just 'oh talking spiders is a really good idea' 'oh selling souls is a really good idea'#and then figuring out how that actually works and what it looks like is secondary; and when you find out that it hurts someone ie clay men #'No empathy' kicks in and they start doubling down/making excuses.#And that tracks with his writing for me. Because it's hard to write horror atmosphere AND be clear. SSeas only makes sense to me 50% of the #time and that's because I read the 5th City wiki #I can't imagine him ACTUALLY trying to write a narrative in that style because it's just... not narratively coherent.#It's ideas and coolness based not a STORY and actual humans in the setting come last to whatever fresh thought was in the brain #and actual humans who played the game with their cultures and perspectives probably came last. ^^"#*not actual humans actual creatures in the setting #All this aside I might also have a shit perspective because I grew up with someone who does exactly this. Harm is done because they're #honestly too shortsighted and empathy deficient to see they're hurtful. Doesn't excuse the action. I just don't interact much with them now

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originalcontent · 1 year

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Night in the Woods and Pathologic 2 are literally the same game, beyond a few superficial contrasts in presentation there isn’t a single difference.

#this is a vaguepost @ my sister #it is a joke but also if you try to challenge this statement i WILL defend it #*ahem* in this game you play as someone returning to their small town after having left for college (which they did not complete)#the character is honestly great. sarcastic little shit who might stab you but has a heart of gold and is a hero of the people.#the town is a part of you but you're also separate. your home feels like it changed but maybe you're the one who's different.#the town itself is a character. the autumnal atmosphere is not only beautiful but also perfectly ties in with the story's themes of change #the central conflict to the setting of course being the tensions between the past/tradition and the future/progress #drastic measures are employed in order to fight back against all the inevitabilities of industrialization involving ancient powers that be #and you're left to unravel its secrets and address it in just under two weeks before more people get killed #the game is set around 12 days plus a prologue and an epilogue #anyway. you arrive in town and go to your parents house and get in touch with three childhood friends. nothing is the same as when you left.#day 1 will also slap you in the face with a murder mystery but it's far too early for the full scope of the story to be revealed #in the following few days you get to explore the town and choose which npc's to spend time with #the game is designed so that you never have the time to do everything. many events will be locked forever if you don't do them on given days #your character is brash and possibly even violent but still finds themself mentoring kids and showing kindness to strangers #you also talk with a number of older more engrained members of the community and learn about the town's history and spirituality from them #there's a stark contrast between the full and bustling streets vs the abundance of abandoned spaces and empty buildings #you'll also discover that your dreams are packed with meaning and symbolism and will sometimes even see you commune with supernatural forces #tensions will rise as you uncover more and more pieces of the mystery. this ultimately culminates in a journey into the earth below the town #your character visits the magical pit that resides there where you learn the final truths of the story and can finally put it all together #you make a fateful choice in hopes of saving the town and the game ends allowing you to wander it one last time to see the results #you can take your time and when you're ready to end the game you return to a stage you've visited so often for your final goodbyes #of course the similarities don't end there. the weather. the rats. earth/sky dichotomies. the discussions of labor movements.#the church conspicuously lacking any christian iconography. the giant animals as a representation of god but also not. the color palettes.#the human characters who look like stylized dogs and birds. the empty theater. man i could go on forever.#they even each have a side story where you play as a traveling scholar trying to unravel the secrets that lie beyond the veil of death #if i were a games youtuber i would make this into a 20 minute video with spliced footage from both games #for those who don't get the joke nitw has the coziest vibes my side of gaming despite its inherent sadness and patho2 is a survival horror

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mytrainline · 2 years

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honestly me rn after finishing The Call of The Void.

i cant not gush over this podcast its so so so good. throughout!

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uppastthejelliclemoon · 2 years

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i found an old flashdrive while rearranging my room, and it had a bunch of old fanfics that i haven't even thought about since like 2015, and it honestly got me thinking:

one thing i will say about fanfiction.net is that people there were SO much more invested in OC/Canon stories than on Ao3. about a third of my stories on my ff.net account involve OCs of mine, and looking at the engagement there vs. the engagement on OC stories I've posted on Ao3 is really interesting.

granted, most of the stories on my ff.net account were posted within the 2014-2016 time frame, when ff.net was really at it's height, but still. I'll admit that it's slightly discouraging, seeing the difference in engagement, and wondering what on earth was different about those stories than the ones i post now.

but seriously... 2022 me is a MUCH better writer than 2015 me, so it's always surprising whenever i look at my old stories, and honestly it makes me happy, like so many people enjoyed those stories i wrote!!!

#i feel like ff.net was a much better atmosphere for posting ocs than ao3 honestly #personal #kind of?#honestly i'm looking back at my favorite stories and getting a bit emotional #some of those ocs have personalities that are SO similar to my cats ocs #so it's very easy to see where the inspiration came from #my tmnt oc inspired hestia #my star wars rebels ocs inspired the ghost siblings (which is ironic lmao)#my rotg/frozen oc has a very similar personality to iris ngl #it makes me smile #i definitely do miss posting on ff.net #also rip it's like 12:30 at night so i'm just very tired lmao

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tasmanianstripes · 3 months

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Amazing how it took the developers of Poppy Playtime two whole chapters to finally make a bare minimum of a functional game

#like yeah its leagues above the previous chapters but thats because the previous chapters were a hittily put together sloppy buggy mess that #shouldnt have been released in the way that they are right now. Chapter 3 is what chapter 1 should have been like #and yeah it's still a cashgrab at heart. its so distateful that they already made merch for chapter 3 that you could buy BEFORE it even #released. theyre 100% money driven. but at least if chapter 4 improves even more on what was in chapter 3 i think it can be a decent game #i dont think it can ever be a GOOD game because of what a disaster of two first chapters it has. not unless they completely rework them. and #with its story reaching its end slowly i doubt there even is time to make it a good game even if the last chapters are amazing in quality.#even if the last chapters are GREAT (which i doubt) it will never be anything else than a highly mixed medicore at best game. because it'll #always have this shitty developer studios' greed and the shitshow that were the first 2 chapters weighing it down #honestly. if chapter 3 or something akin to it was the first thing that was released of this game i would have actually liked it. yeah it #wouldnt be GREAT but it'd be decent and enjoyable. but instead it has its garbage first chapters staining what it could have been. it's #insane that I even have to praise a developer studio for delivering a BARE MINIMUM of a game. what the fuck is this. what happened to the #state of games. its shameful that releasing a barely functional nothing burger and charging for it became acceptable in any way #that aside even chapter 3 could improve in many areas. it feels more like a puzzle game with horror elements rather than a horror game with #puzzle elements. every time you get to a puzzle the game just halts to a complete stop. all the suspence they could have gotten just #completely dies on the spot. ive played and watched many horror games with puzzles in them and i like them a lot but this is just not how #you do that. it feels like youre walking from puzzle to a puzzle and all the interesting things that happen with actual substance happen in #between puzzles but instead of focusing on that it feels like the game focuses on the puzzles. it should be the other way around damn it #but i think if chapter 4 keeps the overall quality of chapter 3 and ups the scares while dailing down the puzzles or incorporating them #better into the atmosphere and story it might actually be a good horror game. well that chapter at least.#also ik the monster designs are very...mascot horror and analogue horror cliches but i actually enjoy them. Mummy Longlegs was medicore and #forgetful like the rest of her chapter and her only saving grace was her death scene. Huggy Wuggy's (god what a name) design and animations #and chase sequence were the only good thing of chapter 1 so i think if it was put into something of much better quality then it could #actually hold up. And I really like CatNap's design for some reason. The way he moves is creepy and yeah the face design is goofy as hell #but i can forgive it. i like that the fumes he releases makes you see him as a far creepier monster than he is that took me by surprise.#Also his death scene FUCKED severely by far the best scene in the entire game imo. Also I actually enjoyed his story? i cant believe im #saying this but chapter 3 and analogue horror videos actually got me interested in this game's story and where it will go. Insane.#and speaking of the analogue horror videos they made are good. WAY too good. I dont trust like that. They for sure hired somebody to make #them for them theres no way in hell they didnt. But yeah thats my opinion on this series. Over all not a good game and a complete cash grab #dont buy it there are way better games out there even in the mascot horror genere. But the quality did go up and it gets me hopeful #anyway my impromtu poopy playtime review's over

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dorkousloris · 7 months

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i finished fatal frame (which took me like. three years. i started playing that game in 2018, finally beat it in 2021) and eventually played fatal frame 2 that year, which i only managed to finished it in 2022...

now im playing fatal frame 3 this year since oct-nov is spooky months, and,,, i ✨forgot✨ how it makes me stiff, wanting to cry internally, and just haha dolls- oh that doll just looks up-

but also how much i enjoyed the atmosphere because while the ghosts aren't exactly that scary, they are scary when they simply shows up in unexpected locations, and camera obscura / spirit camera my beloved- my only source of safety aka using it to look ahead before i move and exorcise ghosts

#dorkous ramblings #idk if i can. managed to beat it within a year tho HJGDFHJGHSDg #and to be FAIR... tensions and atmospheres makes it scarier than facing a ghost honestly #the ghosts are mostly friendly and the ones who are hostile? just point ur camera at them and take a pic to perish themm #im also trying to play it without using emulators save slates which is HARDER but also fun!!!#and scary bc you never know!!#ALSO. i love finding files that are scattered!!#stories of what happened before you came to this place is v fun to see and read eheheh

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