Recent content by PsychedelicDiamond

Geez, Control 2 and Silent Hill Townfall releasing on the same day. Not a chance I'm not gonna get both of them on release.

Iron Lung (2026) Directorial debut of YouTuber Mark "iplier" Fischbach, based on an indie horror game by the Szymanski brothers of "Dusk" and "Gloomwood" fame. Now, I've always been rather unfamiliar with Fischbach's work on YouTube, I had, perhaps unfairly, always pegged him as another...

Playing the new James Bond game. Loving it's version of Ms. Moneypenny. Black girls in white sneakers are a miracle of the universe <3. That's it. That's my first impression.

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is the new release from The Studio But Very Decidedly Not The People behind the popular visual novel with extra steps, Disco Elysium. I won't go over the details of the studio's history after Disco Elysium's release, mainly because, if you're here, you've probably...

Reflections in a Dead Diamond (2025) Most recent movie by Franco-Belgian power couple Bruno Forzani and Helen Cattet. They are film makers I have more or less always ignored, which might have been a mistake on my part, because they have certainly distinguished themselves, making surreal...

It's kind of like House of Leaves, if you took out the character study and the family drama and the allusions to the myth of the minotaur and the satire of media analysis and the post modern stylistic flourishes and just left "What if you got lost in an endless maze of corridors... wouldn't that...

Valid, honestly.

Also, what do you mean "Divide between critics and gamers"? It has 88% approval on steam and 85% on Metacritic. Critic and player feedback are pretty close to identical. There's much less of a divide between critical score and audience score than Crimson Desert, for example, has.

That aside, seems like one of those games where how much you enjoy them seems to depend entirely on how much you enjoy the writing and presentation of it. I dunno, I don't really see much of a point in calling out a game for lacking gameplay. As long as you have any input beyond starting and...

No, there are plenty of things to it that I would call good without any particular caveats. The combat system. The art direction. The world design. The graphics, natch. The physics. The puzzle design, with some exceptions. The presentation of most of its big setpieces. Sure, a big part of what...

Not that the Delesya chapter didn't have a lot of really cool shit, but now that we're starting to do 2001: A Space Odyssey and Wizard of Oz references, maybe it's time to start wrapping up the story.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Okay, what is it with that title? Why "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" and not just "Super Mario Galaxy" or "Super Mario Galaxy: The Movie"? And, yes, I might as well have asked this about the Mario Brothers Movie too, but still. Makes it sound like a Seltzer &...

Just like Trump's approval ratings!

Here's a post on reddit going over a document in the game that spells out some of the more ambiguous parts of the plot: And here'l are my thoughts on it: It is interesting. I was always eager to defend the games story, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on there, even without the...

And I finished it today. Overall it is a very competent TPS, probably moreso than I'm able to realistically give it credit for, having only finished it on normal difficulty without diving much into the post game. While it lacks a bit in enemy variety, the core mechanics of the combat are...