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I can Door Dash weed now. What a crazy time to be alive.

I did not enjoy the Scarecrow puzzle. I have enjoyed the rest so far though.

This is a problem my wife and I have.

Being able to say I played a clone of the flying parts of Cuphead as a person riding a tampon shooting at Carmen Santiago is an example of the games' best absurdism.

Upon playing, you can really tell they put their "best" clones at the front and the back, as about midway through there are a lot of games that are either crazy simple or barely playable.

I am still getting a kick out of it. It feels like the videogame equivalent of blindly buying a bunch of knockoffs from Temu and having a Mystery Box reveal party.

Some of the games mocked include Cuphead, The Binding of Isaac, and more. I think most, if not all of the fun, is that Dopamine dispense of being brought back to something you're nostalgic for.

Admittedly, most versions are a notably worse version of the original version, however.

I bought and started playing Indiecalypse, on a whim. I am about two hours into it.

Basically, it is around twenty-five mini-games, spread across a point-and-click style adventure game.

The mini-games are riffs on popular indie games, the story feels like a lower brow Cyanide & Happiness.

I think I want to try and beat the Hard difficulty with Silent Hill f in New Game +, so that way I can get a deeper appreciation of the combat.

The puzzles have been interesting, and the atmosphere has led to a handful of genuinely creepy moments. It feels a lot closer to what I ultimately wanted from Fatal Frame (although I have only played and beaten the first Fatal Frame so far).

The change in setting was unexpected, but ultimately welcome. Silent Hill f feels like, to Silent Hill, what the Evil Within was to Resident Evil, where it feels like it takes the core and creates something new.

This is the "Every town has an Elm Street" game for Silent Hill.

The story is a little heavy-handed, on the nose, but I like it. The setting is good, I am really digging the atmosphere, and the combat feels very interesting and different for the series, without going too far off the reservations.

I started Silent Hill f. I decided to buy it as a birthday present for myself. I am about five hours in and I am digging it so far. 👍

All in all, it is likely the worst mainline Resident Evil (I would actually put it over 5, but that's largely because I didn't love the art style of that one). I also think it has more bang for your buck than 3, but the sum of its parts is an overall inferior product.

I'd say it's a 6 out of 10.

At the same time though, I kind of like it. As a "what the fuck" Elseworld version of how Resident Evil culminated.

The gameplay reminds me of if Gears of War took steroids and was a little like Devil May Cry. It's not great, but there is fun to be had.

The story is a nothing burger, but with every topping you can think of. It's like if Capcom made an adaptation of the Resident Evil movies, but wanted them to feel like Fast & the Furious after it'd jumped the shark.

It's ridiculous, and it doesn't mesh well with what I think the series does best.

The production value and score were on point and I liked the tweaks they made to the HUD menu, which I found slick and pretty neat. It wouldn't have worked with the earlier ones, but I liked them in this case.

Chris' and Jake's campaigns were decent fun. There was definitely fun to be had in the game. In fact, it really vibes as a Gears of War lite style 3rd person shooter.

Ada's, on the other hand, was a mess and the shoehorning of a multiplayer campaign was hilarious.

I love Resident Evil 4 and very much enjoy 2, which is why I thought the Leon story would be my favorite among them. It actually might be the worst of the bunch (not counting Ada's).

I have been re-completing the campaign for Resident Evil 6 (this is my first re-play since it was released).

As I remembered, my enjoyment of it meets a death by a thousand cuts by the end. The more is more, throw everything at the wall mentality was ambitious, but it came at a major price.

Loved Jack. Liked Devil's Candy. Indifferent on Green Room. Never saw Strange Darlings.

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Ten or so years ago, I bought it blind at a Family Video (essentially Blockbuster but in Illinois) and was pleasantly surprised by it. Always used to walk out with a stack of discounted movies, rarely were they good, that one was though.

Another of his stories, found., was made into a horror film way back when, that's actually how I got in contact with him. I interviewed the directors of that film. Pretty out there flick.

Fun Fact: The guy who wrote the screenplay for Glorious also wrote stories that are in my (Mishmashers') horror anthology series. Nice guy.

Currently Watching: "Basket Case"

I am unfamiliar with what it is about heading in. I have been recommended it for years, with a friend of mine saying it checks all the boxes for the classic Full Moon style movies we're both pretty fond of.

Recommend The Last Exorcist, if you haven't seen it.

I want to collect my thoughts on it a little more before I commit to a full blown review, but I will say I definitely enjoyed it / found it to be among the better mock horror movies I've seen.

It's definitely a concept I believe has untapped potential. I am always pro on experimenting with filmmaking.

I'm unsold on them, but I'm open-minded.

I think the things that take me out are the jump scares, over-the-top character work, and other stuff that isn't usually in an actual documentary.