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Five Night’s at Freddy’s: Sister Location is Bizarre
I’m not going to talk about FNAF World and nothing you can do will make me. Sister Location is where Five Nights at Freddy’s got oddly experimental. No, not ‘the game is a cute RPG’ experimental. Rather, it took the established lore, gameplay format, and even setting and put a twist on it, focusing more […]
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On Crippling Characters
Generally, most stories fall into a pretty simple loop. They usually go something like this: Character goes through great struggle of some kind Character learns a valuable lesson and gains a new skill Character uses new skill to overcome trial Rinse repeat until story ends A strong example of this is in shounen anime. Usually, […]
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Merfolk: Angry Mermaids
Lore: Scavengers of the Sea Residing deep beneath the waves, merfolk rarely interact with land-dwelling creatures, thus becoming the focus of many a sailor’s romanticized tales. They lack the means to create a proper society beneath the water, such as making weapons or writing histories, and thus live in hunter-gatherer tribes. On occasion, multiple tribes […]
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John Wick: A Modern Action Masterpiece
Action thriller movies are hardly a rare breed of films. However, it is rare for them to be executed well, as it is easy for a single mistake to bring it all down. Poor editing or shaky cam can sink the ship before it even leaves the port. Then there are movies like John Wick. […]