There Is Plenty Here I Don't Want To See.
Jun. 19th, 2023 10:36 amI'm back in the UK!
Umbria was beautiful, and I was a little worried London would feel claustrophobic on my return, but I'd forgotten how much I love this weird ugly city. I look out at the graffiti and the mismatched architecture and I go, 'Ah, yes, I'm home.'
Having spent a fortnight unwinding in Italy, I decided it was high time I stressed myself out again, so I got home and promptly finished playing The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope.
Little Hope is a horror game I was playing with Tem at the end of last year, but I was compelled to take a half-year break from it because it was scaring me too much. It kept giving me nightmares, and I caught myself shaking during play sessions.
The extended break from playing was a good decision! It gave me a little emotional distance, so I was able to come back and finish the game in a calmer frame of mind. Tem and I also took the sting out a little by singing 'Call Me Maybe' over scenes where it got too scary.
Tem called the Curator 'Professor Butt' and I am delighted about it. I still don't understand why sixty percent of the game's budget went into modelling this one character's arse.
( Full spoilers for The Dark Pictures: Little Hope. )
I still definitely want to experience the remaining Dark Pictures games - it's an imperfect but fascinating experimental horror series - but I think I might have to resort to Let's Plays, rather than playing them myself. I can't play Supermassive horror games; I just don't have the constitution.
Umbria was beautiful, and I was a little worried London would feel claustrophobic on my return, but I'd forgotten how much I love this weird ugly city. I look out at the graffiti and the mismatched architecture and I go, 'Ah, yes, I'm home.'
Having spent a fortnight unwinding in Italy, I decided it was high time I stressed myself out again, so I got home and promptly finished playing The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope.
Little Hope is a horror game I was playing with Tem at the end of last year, but I was compelled to take a half-year break from it because it was scaring me too much. It kept giving me nightmares, and I caught myself shaking during play sessions.
The extended break from playing was a good decision! It gave me a little emotional distance, so I was able to come back and finish the game in a calmer frame of mind. Tem and I also took the sting out a little by singing 'Call Me Maybe' over scenes where it got too scary.
Tem called the Curator 'Professor Butt' and I am delighted about it. I still don't understand why sixty percent of the game's budget went into modelling this one character's arse.
( Full spoilers for The Dark Pictures: Little Hope. )I still definitely want to experience the remaining Dark Pictures games - it's an imperfect but fascinating experimental horror series - but I think I might have to resort to Let's Plays, rather than playing them myself. I can't play Supermassive horror games; I just don't have the constitution.
