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Pathologic 2 (First-Person Suffering Sim)

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Pathologic 2 (First-Person Suffering Sim)

  When I stumbled across this game on Steam, my dumbass dismissed it foolishly quick. “Wow, another generic first-person survival horror shooter.” But this idiotic train of thought couldn’t be further from smart. I anticipated completing it in a few sittings, which slowly descended into a thick, depressing mosh of trial and error as I […]

MFKZ (GTA San Andreas Goes Sci-Fi)

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MFKZ (GTA San Andreas Goes Sci-Fi)

  MFKZ, co-directed by Guillaume Renard and Shoujirou Nishimi, is a lot of things crammed into 90 minutes of kinetic animated insanity. The nod to anime is rather overt, but there’s also an influence of alien sci-fi, call-outs to the GTA games and various elements of hip hop culture with a dose of the sort […]

Pounder – Uncivilized (Badass Period Heavy Metal)

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Pounder – Uncivilized (Badass Period Heavy Metal)

  I can’t remember the last time I reviewed heavy metal. Unlike thrash, which you still feel totally badass for listening to, heavy metal can lack that effect outside of its original context, that is, the olden times. It has a tendency to feel more dated than Satanic imagery in metal at large. Oh shit […]

Fimbul (Almost Big Frikken Game)

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Fimbul (Almost Big Frikken Game)

  Yeah been looking to hack and slash my way through a game recently and this one happened to randomly appear in my queue. Any game with big frikken beasts is sure to please a little, and if they’re trolls, well cool then because lots of black metal maniacs read this site and they like […]

Punk Never Ends! (Heroin Crust in Slovakia)

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Punk Never Ends! (Heroin Crust in Slovakia)

  Those who enjoy soap-opera drama of people’s misery should grab a glass of wine and popcorn for the feature debut from director Juro Šlauka, Punk Never Ends! (Punk je hned!), a bleak, realistic look into drug addiction. It’s the perfect film to let kids know the glamorous life they could lead if they became an […]

Fiend – Seeress (Doompth Metal)

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Fiend – Seeress (Doompth Metal)

  Yo I just came up with a new term: “doompth metal.” At first read that sounds horrible, like a new taunt. You doompthus! That, another new word, is definitely a taunt, but doompth is not, sometimes. Okay let me be honest here it kind of is. Truth be told it’s all I could come […]

Apparition (Actually Scary Ouija Ghost Hunt)

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Apparition (Actually Scary Ouija Ghost Hunt)

  Okay this game freaked me out. When Fat Dog Games first told me about Apparition after I contacted them about a different game, I was disinterested because of how pathetic the theme seemed but I figured eh free play, review, move on. I was wrong. So very wrong and so very scared. Who would […]

Balcony (Self-Loathing Identity Collapse)

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Balcony (Self-Loathing Identity Collapse)

  Phew, this one is a killer. Man… Balcony is one of those films that doesn’t tell you much about its real meaning until the ending. You think you got it all worked out. You’re sure of it. This is a touching glimmer of hope in all the human garbage, you think, and then it […]

Besta – Eterno Rancor (Crust Metal Capitalism)

Besta – Eterno Rancor (Crust Metal Capitalism)

  Yet another example of a book judged properly by its banking account. Marco Donida probably listened to Eterno Rancor as many times as I did, because I myself certainly thought of crucified snake Jesuses, a meth lab with a floating brain, a skeleton sycophant wading in toxic waste and refugee vomit with a bayoneted […]

Pandemic Express (Mosquito Mutant Tag With Assassin Mimes)

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Pandemic Express (Mosquito Mutant Tag With Assassin Mimes)

  Talk about some deceptive wording. Pandemic Express is billed with the word “zombie” thrown about but zombies there are none though escape plenty. I’m not sure why everyone latched onto it as a “zombie” thing when it stands perfectly fine on its own feet if you’re into mutant insect people, but I suppose for […]