Opinion time: Nothing gets me suspicious about a game’s quality like celebrity casting.
C’mon people, there’s already professionals who get paid to voice video game characters and are often quite good at it. They’re called voice actors.
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I’m of the belief that mysteries shouldn’t have too many rules. As cliché as it is for the butler to have done it, I don’t want to experience mysteries where I can immediately rule out to butler because it’d be too obvious.
Hell, more butlers should do it just to shake things up. Maybe Jeeves is tired of being surrounded by incompetent bastards and bashes a couple of heads in with a chair leg.
Anyway, I prefer my mysteries to be a bit wild. Unpredictable. Sensible, when it gets to the end and all is revealed, but crazy enough that I couldn’t just rule out solutions just because they’re tropes.
And then there’s Disco Elysium.
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Rodion Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment
Talking about Dostoyevsky’s characters, David Foster Wallace said that the best characters “live inside us, forever, once we’ve met them.” And Rodion Raskolnikov is one of the most complex and unique characters that he has ever created.
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FAITH is a recent retro indie horror game by Airdorf Games. If your eyes started to glaze over when you saw the words “retro indie horror game”, I know mine would, don’t worry just yet. FAITH sets itself apart from the bunch very easily.
Pathologic is a genre-breaking game created by Russian developers Ice-Pick Lodge. Released in 2005, the game received quite a substantial amount of praise and acclaim in Russia but only managed a small cult following outside of its home country. The studio has stated in the past that their efforts began as an “attempt at a cultural experiment” and it really shows in Pathologic. To put it simply, there is nothing else quite like it.
