Episode 25: Killer7
Content Warnings: general violence, suicide, discussion of abuse and child sexual assault from 59:00 to 1:06:00Grace and Rose explore the at-once simplified and maximalist survival horror action of Ki...
1 Aug 20240s
Episode 24: The Silver Case
We talk about the classic detective visual novel The Silver Case! We discuss police procedurals, visual novel aesthetics, mysticism vs. science fiction, and why games should be like television.
29 Apr 20240s
Episode 23: Fatal Frame III The Tormented
We talk about the “compilation” game Fatal Frame III: The Tormented which attempts to wrap its two prior games into an overarching narrative, with poignant and evocative results. We discuss its many a...
31 Mars 20240s
Episode 22: Her Story and Immortality
Content Warnings: sexual assault, death by fire, suicide, self-harmWe discuss modern FMV games Her Story and Immortality. We discuss these cinematic narrative games, their sometimes dazzling, sometime...
5 Mars 20240s
Episode 21: The Evil Within 2
We talk about the unsurprisingly competent and surprisingly comprehensible The Evil Within 2. We discuss the game’s new “open level” structure, even while it imports most of what made The Evil Within ...
28 Jan 20240s
Episode 20: Resident Evil (2002)
Grace and Rose close out the year with the classic Resident Evil 2002 remake. We discuss the beauty of its fixed camera angles and pre-rendered backgrounds, the weirdly arbitary difference in difficul...
31 Dec 20230s
Episode 19: Alan Wake 2
Content Warnings: Suicide, domestic violence, general horror goreIn this ocean-sized episode we tackle the FMV-soaked marvel that is Alan Wake II. We talk about how this feels both like a culmination ...
1 Dec 20230s
Episode 18: Serial Experiments Lain
Content Warnings: Self-Harm, Suicide, Freud (Oedipal Complex)Through the electric wires, a strange image appears on your TV… it’s Serial Experiments Lain the video game! We talk about the visual novel...
13 Nov 20230s
