The Pixels

Elemental Video Game Critiques

Horror

5 min read

Creepy Tale asks you to explore a terrifying forest filled with otherworldly creatures. But is it frighteningly good or terrifyingly bad?

7 min read

“Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.” -China Mieville

2 min read

This episode we dive headfirst into the horrors of a cult classic: Shadow Hearts, discussing how to win a game of hangman, the definition of cult classic, our take on Lovecraft’s works and Lovecraftian themes present in Shadow Hearts, purple prose and classic literature, anti-anthropocentrism and cosmic horror, the technical word for fear of dolls (never use it, please)…

16 min read

The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage does his best to get to grips with Cultist Simulator, but gazing too long upon the Old Ones has been known to cause loosened grips…

9 min read

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

14 min read

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
-Roman Payne, The Wanderess

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