It’s October which means horror movies, scary games and eating too much candy! That and it’s the best time of the year if you want our opinions on such things! So here in the Backlog Odyssey spooky brain trust, we thought to ourselves, we’re already having anxious bedtimes from the […]
Horror
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The 40 days of horror games challenge is complete and I talk about some of what went behind it! Some Time in September One weird September day (the 22nd if I recall), I said to myself, “You know what would be cool? If I shared a picture of a horror […]
I take a look at the game that has an unhealthy obsession with dank and disgusting holes, Silent Hill 4: The Room. It Starts With Denial If I’m going to be perfectly honest I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the Silent Hill series. Going from illogically hating it as […]
Layers of Fear throws paint at the canvas and calls it horror. But is it more than just a few jump scares? But is it Art? Horror games are like onions… or maybe that was ogres… Either way they need to hit you on multiple levels, or layers if you […]
“We’re going back to the roots of survival horror!”. That’s a phrase that’ll make any fan of the sub-genre’s ears perk up and start foaming at the mouth. And this was exactly what Shinji Mikami and Tango Gameworks promised when they announced that they were working on a new franchise […]
The mind is a funny thing. It helps us express our creativity, solve complex problems, communicate with and relate information to one another. In many ways it defines who we are and how we perceive the world around us. But our mind can also be our worst enemy. It can […]