"You want this cake?" "I WANT IT! >("
Jan. 14th, 2011 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shamanicshayminApologies to the flist for being cranky. My sleep schedule's fucked up again (sleep all day, stay up all night) and it may have something to do with it. Eh.
Exploring the Grimmification page on TV Tropes is fun. ♥ I don't have much else to say, but I watched Harry Patridge videos the other day and that was fun. I'd totally watch Johnny Depp in Burtonland if it was real~ ♥♥♥ MAKE IT HAPPEN TIM BURTON. YOU KNOW YOU WANNA. ;D
I also played All Of Our Friends Are Dead and Au Sable. You can download both here. While creepy/atmospheric, it wasn't as scary as I hoped they'd be. Some of the cryptic words and phrases worked and added to the atmosphere, but most of it felt like emo poetry written by angsty teenagers to show off how dark and edgy they are. Also, naked woman. Ooooh, scary. Though to be fair, the final boss in Au Sable was more interesting and I actually had a "whoa" moment there. Au Sable was generally the better game, though the protagonist of AOOFAD looks like Mewtwo with a machine gun, so I'm tempted to draw that. :P Come to think of it, the game makes more sense if you look at it as Mewtwo's story in an AU gone wrong. Kinda. Au Sable had better story structure though, making it more like a haunted folk tale, which is nice. :o
I like that in Au Sable, two eyeballs float behind the player in a red chain and actually help out on solving puzzles and opening doors; I'll have to borrow that for a novel some time. Au Sable also gets bonus points because the protagonist reminds me of Marcella Pike from my NaNo'09 novel, only Marcella's dark-haired instead of a redhead. ;D They even have the same type of gun at the beginning. Dang.
But yes. Both games are short, but worth a run, if only to check out the atmosphere. Just don't expect to be flat-out traumatized like the guy who reviewed the games at Freeware Friday. :P Yay for being jaded!
Exploring the Grimmification page on TV Tropes is fun. ♥ I don't have much else to say, but I watched Harry Patridge videos the other day and that was fun. I'd totally watch Johnny Depp in Burtonland if it was real~ ♥♥♥ MAKE IT HAPPEN TIM BURTON. YOU KNOW YOU WANNA. ;D
I also played All Of Our Friends Are Dead and Au Sable. You can download both here. While creepy/atmospheric, it wasn't as scary as I hoped they'd be. Some of the cryptic words and phrases worked and added to the atmosphere, but most of it felt like emo poetry written by angsty teenagers to show off how dark and edgy they are. Also, naked woman. Ooooh, scary. Though to be fair, the final boss in Au Sable was more interesting and I actually had a "whoa" moment there. Au Sable was generally the better game, though the protagonist of AOOFAD looks like Mewtwo with a machine gun, so I'm tempted to draw that. :P Come to think of it, the game makes more sense if you look at it as Mewtwo's story in an AU gone wrong. Kinda. Au Sable had better story structure though, making it more like a haunted folk tale, which is nice. :o
I like that in Au Sable, two eyeballs float behind the player in a red chain and actually help out on solving puzzles and opening doors; I'll have to borrow that for a novel some time. Au Sable also gets bonus points because the protagonist reminds me of Marcella Pike from my NaNo'09 novel, only Marcella's dark-haired instead of a redhead. ;D They even have the same type of gun at the beginning. Dang.
But yes. Both games are short, but worth a run, if only to check out the atmosphere. Just don't expect to be flat-out traumatized like the guy who reviewed the games at Freeware Friday. :P Yay for being jaded!
