09.Jul.2010 Yume Nikki and Solipsistic Escapism
Yume Nikki is a game about a young girl, named Madotsuki, and her escape from reality. It’s a game that has the potential to be long, or very short, depending on if you play it with a strategy guide or not. I played it initially without a guide, and then later on using a guide [...]
25.May.2010 Alan Wake and Horror Itself
Horror is, as Alan Wake points out, a kind of darkness. A mental, reality darkness, something that confounds us with its illogicality. But before we get into all that, let’s get into philosophy a little. In continental (not analytic) philosophy, a term, and series of terms, have been in circulation regarding the nature of reality, [...]