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Chicken Police – Paint it Red! (Clucking Animal Noir Game)

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Chicken Police – Paint it Red! (Clucking Animal Noir Game)

  At some point in the course of my playthrough of Chicken Police, the new LA-noir-but-where-everybody-has-an-animal-for-a-head game from Handygames, me and my roommate decided we would drink to Sonny Featherland, our protagonist, every time he or his junior partner Marty MacChicken made use of any form of “cluck” (as in “cluck off”), and any time […]

The Wild Goose Lake (Modern Chinese Gangster Noir is Okay)

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The Wild Goose Lake (Modern Chinese Gangster Noir is Okay)

  Wuhan before the coronavirus; murky, rainy, with an underlining current of deception. Street gangs steal motorcycles and drugs are dealt in shady parking garages with a large lake featuring uncharted perfect for hiding. Directed by Diao Yinan, this modern neo-noir tale opens with a dispute between two rival gangs on who’s more pro at […]

The Blind Prophet (Infernal Point-and-Click Cyberpunk Noir)

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The Blind Prophet (Infernal Point-and-Click Cyberpunk Noir)

  Boy do I appreciate a little bit of dis oh baby. That infernal demon action is what I’m talking about hell yeah. Looking at the above header I designed from a screencap you’re probably like you…sick…freak, but I’m merely savoring the sweet taste of point-and-click madness that this game is built upon, nothing more, […]

Night Call (Text-Based Noir Taxi Tedium)

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Night Call (Text-Based Noir Taxi Tedium)

  I can remember hype text-based adventure games in the early 1980s. They still exist, but the market is quite niche. Read? Lol, I’m playing a game. Not an easy sell these days, that reading business, but a serial killer noir thriller? Easy victory. Or, rather, it could be. In Night Call you’re a Parisian […]

The Neon Demon (2016) – The Wicked Die Young

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The Neon Demon (2016) – The Wicked Die Young

Some people think I’m too slow. What’s the point of reviewing something if it was released months ago? Well, I actually analyze what I review, and that takes time, and hey, who doesn’t mind a publicity push after the fact? I can fly through albums pretty quickly, but for films and video games, there’s more […]