Pathologic (Classic) OST - Funeral Procession Coming Down From The Polyhedron Staircase Horror Game Analysis 2020-05-04 | There is something coming down the Polyhedron steps. No - many things. They don't even look human. The snappy title is otherwise known as FPCDFTPS. Thanks to the fine folks who both logged this in the Internet Wayback Machine and to the passionate fans & great archivists working on the Pathologic Wiki for this particular track!pathologic.gamepedia.com/Pathologic_Wiki
Haunting Ground Analysis Begins! [Stream Archive 1] Horror Game Analysis 2024-09-07 | Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisSupport me on Patreon -- patreon.com/hgaIn which Hewie is the best dog. I also analyze stuff like camera angles, voyeurism, spaces, AI, game design, colours, and more! But y'know, Hewie's here. Which is the most important thing. And also "Haunting Ground Analysis" has a conspicuously nice ring to it. "HGA" or something sounds pretty good, right?Chapters: 0:00:00 Intro Movie0:01:51 Stream Begins
shomecoming keeps on going (and then abruptly ends) [Stream Archive 3] Horror Game Analysis 2024-09-04 | Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisSupport me on Patreon -- patreon.com/hgaI analyze pacing, colours, dialogue, game design, empathy, and the themes of Silent Hill: Homecoming, which is (probably) the worst Silent Hill game. It just kind of ends, but that's okay. I had fun with it (in its own way) and I hope you enjoy my playthrough!Wanted to see the actual ending? Check here: youtube.com/watch?v=o2-ZIlwfh-w
shomecoming continues [Stream Archive 2] Horror Game Analysis 2024-09-03 | Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisSupport me on Patreon -- patreon.com/hgahga play silent hill homecoming. enthusiasm. analysis.(but seriously I talk about a lot of things today, really getting into it in the second hour. There's a lot of issues with this game's design, colour palette, story, dialogue, and other foundations that makes the few things that could shine a bit rubbish. Hope you enjoy!)Chapters:0:00:00 Setting Up0:00:23 Stream Starts
END OF BLOOD CURSE [Stream Archive 4] Horror Game Analysis 2024-09-02 | The finale of Blood Curse! Absolutely mental, but highly enjoyable. Lots to talk about regarding the tangibility of video games and the game's environmental design (as well as its game design). The archives loom large in this stream. Hope you enjoyed this playthrough!Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisSupport me on Patreon -- patreon.com/hgaChapters:0:00:00 Setting Up In Background0:00:54 Stream Starts
EVEN MORE BLOOD CURSE [Stream Archive 3] Horror Game Analysis 2024-08-16 | Some more Blood Curse! Getting close to the finale now. We get through some great missions and do some more analysis of broken spaces and environments in video games. Lots to consider! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis-- Support me at patreon.com/hga
MORE SIREN: BLOOD CURSE [Stream Archive 2] Horror Game Analysis 2024-08-15 | Even more Blood Curse! Blazing through until we begin to dramatically faceplant over and over and over again! Discussion around video games and gender essentialism / naturalization, LEGO games, and of course, as is customary, girlbosses. That is, after all, what the "G" in "HGA" stands for.-- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis-- Support me at patreon.com/hga
SIREN: BLOOD CURSE [Stream Archive 1] Horror Game Analysis 2024-08-15 | I burn through a bunch of episodes in the third and currently final entry in the Siren series. It's good to be back! I talk about a lot of different things - from film grain to general aesthetic, how gameplay and controls make us feel, and the feeling of fear - this game has a lot to discuss! Video essay on it coming up soon(ish)!Chapters:0:00:00 Technical Setup0:00:53 Hello!0:03:41 SIREN: BLOOD CURSE!-- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisSupport me at my Patreon: patreon.com/hga
Silent Hill Homecoming HGA Stream Archive 1 Horror Game Analysis 2024-07-03 | I play Shomecoming and wonder... why? Why did things have to be like this? References to games that were better. Unfortunate attempts at modernizing the Silent Hill brand that (especially now) feel archaic and mired in a desire to be with the times (see: bland military action shooter), rather than the more timeless, melancholic approach of previous games. Long strings of "press x to watch animation of man jumping". Characters with no character outside of lore wikis or text documents. Silent Hill: Homecoming is sadly not a very good game... but occasionally moments of "being good" bubble threateningly to the surface.Chapters:0:00:00 Setting Up0:06:07 Stream Begins0:25:45 Shepherd's Glen0:54:16 Cemetery1:24:27 Hotel2:04:54 Sepulcher2:21:58 Police Station2:37:01 Sewer level yayyyyyy3:00:00 Streets of Shepherd's Glen3:11:18 Hell Descent3:28:02 Scarlet3:36:25 Town Hall / End of StreamMy patreon: patreon.com/hgaBroadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Fear & Hunger 2: Termina [Karin Stream Archive 3] Horror Game Analysis 2024-07-02 | Just a short section of gameplay that I tacked on to the end of my second Infliction stream. Hope you enjoy. I've been pretty stressed lately so haven't had much time or energy to stream (or do anything besides work). I am hoping to rectify that over the next week or so and try to relax a bit with some more streams and working on my next video essay. Stay tuned everyone, thanks for your patience :)Chapters:0:00:00 Loading0:01:00 Game starts
Infliction Full Blind Playthrough / Analysis [Stream Archive] Horror Game Analysis 2024-06-25 | A full blind playthrough of I̶n̶f̶l̶i̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶:̶ E̶x̶t̶e̶n̶d̶e̶d̶ C̶u̶t̶ Cooking with Masimo. This video contains all two (technically three) streams of Infliction I did. The first stream unfortunately dropped out partway through, but I've just put all the streams together as they were saved. Hope you enjoy!Chapters: 0:00:00 Set-up0:01:07 Stream Begins1:35:53 Second Stream1:36:10 Second Stream Starts
Kiwami Means Extreme [Story Finale Yakuza Stream Archive] Horror Game Analysis 2024-06-24 | Chapters: 0:00:00 Loading0:00:35 Stream Begins0:02:10 Zombies!0:11:49 Pre-Finale Exploration / Majima Fights1:34:34 Finale Begins2:04:29 Jingu2:18:32 Final Boss2:26:31 EndingSorry for the quiet game sound. I thought I'd fixed it but apparently not. Hope you enjoy the finale anyway :)Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Completing Chapter 12 [Yakuza Kiwami Stream Archive] Horror Game Analysis 2024-06-23 | In which I play through Chapter 12 and finally confront Kazama (and Shimano). Alternative title: Chapter 12 ends up in stream number 11... deeply frustrating. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Finishing Chapter 11 [Yakuza: Kiwami Stream Archive] Horror Game Analysis 2024-06-21 | In which I play a bit more Yakuza: Kiwami. Getting really close to the end now!Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Fear & Hunger 2: Termina [Karin 2] Horror Game Analysis 2024-06-18 | This is the stream I did on the 5th of June. Unfortunately the stream randomly dropped halfway through, so I lost about a minute! But I enjoyed the play session anyway. Got through a nice little chunk of the game and showed off some more of how wonderful Prehevil is this time of year.
The Hauntology of Forbidden Siren 2 Horror Game Analysis 2024-06-02 | It is, at last, time to venture to the island of Yamijima, and find the haunting secrets buried beneath both its narrative and its gameplay - and even in the way it presents its collectibles. Everyone and everything is haunted.--So this video has been one hell of a journey. I originally started conceiving of it and writing it in the aftermath of releasing the first video on Forbidden Siren. But things just weren't clicking. So I put it in a drawer to think about for a while, took it back out late last year, and started afresh. I chipped away at it, trying to refine it and the ideas behind it. I'm proud of what I have created here and hope that it serves as a continuation - an expansion - of the first video. A refinement of the ideas that I presented there, and a much more thorough presentation of hauntology as a concept. I think it is a fantastic game with fantastic ideas, and I hope I've done it justice.Not all of the footage is mine. I have to thank 77elvistheking and Scissormon for a few sequences of gameplay footage, and Nikodem R for their capture of Kunitoris. As my playthrough was done on PS2, I only went back to my completed emulated version on PCSX2 for some footage, but I didn't get everything I wanted. I still need to sort out a better way to get footage, or just record while I'm playing - but that's difficult obviously in the situation I'm in, with no expensive equipment or anything. The decision to keep most of the footage at its original aspect ratio was to attempt to increase the haunted feeling of the footage :)Thanks to everyone for your patience, and especially to my patrons: Frankaloons, Futurecityscape, BlueVoices, and YoveOst. But to you, reading, and watching - you rock. Next up: Blood Curse.Chapters:0:00:00 Spoiler Warning0:00:10 Prelude0:01:42 INTRODUCTION0:22:00 HAUNTED BY TECHNOLOGY0:45:46 HAUNTED BY GAMEPLAY1:22:00 HAUNTED BY REPRESENTATION1:52:37 CONCLUSION1:59:56 Post-ScriptSources:FORBIDDEN SIREN 2 (Project Siren 2006)FORBIDDEN SIREN (Project Siren 2004)SILENT HILL (Konami 1999)Being and Nothingness (Sartre, Jean-Paul 1956 [1943])The Uncanny (Freud, Sigmund 1919)Approaching Abjection (Kristeva, Julia 1982)"Spread the Word": Creepypasta, Hauntology, and the Ethics of the Curse (Henrisken, Line 2018)Horror And The Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection (Creed, Barbara 1986)Lacan on Gaze (Ma, Yuanlong 2015)Reading Network Fiction (Ciccoricco, David 2008)Analysing Gaze in Terms of Subjective and Objective Interpretation: Sartre and Lacan (Sharma, Pallavi; Barua, Archana 2017)The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book I (Lacan, Jacques 1991; edited by A. Miler and translated by J. Forrester)Texture in Film (Donaldson, Lucy Fife 2014)Video Games and Intermediality (Bach, Hans-Joachim 2020; translated by Michael Fuchs)Camera Lucida (Barthes, Roland 1980)Spectres of Marx (Derrida, Jacques 1993)What is Hauntology? (Fisher, Mark 2012)Ghosts of My Life (Fisher, Mark 2014)Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Hägglund, Martin 2008)Ectoplasms, Evanescence, and Photography (Schoonover, Karl 2003)The Face Revisited: Using Deleuze and Guattari to Explore the Politics of Algorithmic Face Recognition (Bueno, Claudio Celis 2019)Face and facial disfigurations: Self and alterations of self (Andreescu, Florentina C 2017)Love in a Time of Loneliness (Verhaeghe, Paul 1999)"The Survival Horror: The Extended Body Genre”, in Horror Video Games (Perron, Bernard 2009)The Hauntology of Everyday Life (Rahimi, Sadeq 2021)Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Eighth Lecture http://isr.press/Kojeve_8thHegel/index.html (Kojève, Alexandre 1947; translated by James H. Nichols, Jr 1980)Wandering Tanuki wanderingtanuki.com/unlucky-and-lucky-numbers-in-japanHalf-Real (Juul, Jesper 2005)Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Galloway, Alexander 2006)Playing with Videogames (Newman, James 2008)The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre (Sayad, Cecilia 2021)The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses (Ndalianis, Angela 2015)The Deleuze Seminars https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/lecture/lecture-18/Sun and Steel (Mishima, Yukio 1968)The Temple of Dawn (Mishima, Yukio 1973)http://forbidden-siren.ru/http://forbidden-siren.ru/index/siren_2_maniacs_keiichiro_toyama_interview/0-222shu-mikami.comshibito.com
Pathologic Classic HD - Changeling Analysis Day 12 [FINAL] Horror Game Analysis 2024-05-31 | The final Changeling stream, wherein I have the last few conversations with the rest of the Humbles, analyze the movement of the game, and wrap up another Pathologic campaign. I had lots of fun, and as always there was heaps to talk about. I can only hope that I don't have to take as long finishing Haruspex!Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisMy patreon: patreon.com/hga
Pathologic Classic HD - Changeling Analysis Day 10 to Day 12! Horror Game Analysis 2024-05-29 | In which I discuss lots of things - satire, the presence (no, the necessity) of evidence in interpretations of art, and how Pathologic makes us feel for the characters and the ideas within it. I love this game, I truly do, and am very glad I have been able to share this playthrough with so many people. You all rock. See you very soon for the grand finale :)Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
The Glass Staircase Blind Playthrough / Analysis Horror Game Analysis 2024-05-22 | A blind playthrough / on the fly analysis of Puppet Combo's 2019 survival horror game, "The Glass Staircase". It's overall a pretty fun game, that doesn't capitalize on its scares like it should. If anyone has any questions or anything from this video you'd like to hear me talk about more, let me know!Remember: good girls take their medicine. Good girls do their chores. Good girls go home. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisPatreon: patreon.com/hgaChapters:0:00:00 Pre-Stream0:01:13 Stream Starts0:03:11 THE GLASS STAIRCASE
Pathologic Classic HD - Changeling Analysis Day 8 to 10! Horror Game Analysis 2024-05-18 | In which I finally return after prolonged absence and deliver some more analysis: about temporality, texture, the feeling of "actuality" and "reality", the Polyhedron, characters, conversations, lemons, and more! There's also a crazy amount of weird combat. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Forbidden Siren 2 [1] Analysis / Stream Archive Horror Game Analysis 2024-04-27 | Stream starts at 0:03:30. Game starts at 0:04:56. A short stream wherein I start one of my favourite horror games. Lots to love here, and lots to discuss. I look forward to getting stuck in further in the coming weeks, and sharing the video essay I have almost ready to go.The audio volumes are indeed pretty quiet in this game, so I'll make sure that's sorted out for next time.Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Yakuza Kiwami [8] | Where was I, again? Horror Game Analysis 2024-04-06 | I return to a playthrough previously lost to time... -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
More Field Trips? [Yakuza: Kiwami Chapter 8] Horror Game Analysis 2024-04-06 | Oops! Forgot to upload this one properly when I did it last September. Archived properly now - still keen to finish this game on stream if I get the time. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Rewind Or Die 100% Playthrough Horror Game Analysis 2024-04-06 | An... interesting game. Lots to think about in terms of horror game design - in many places, this is an example of what not to do. Yet it does a few things right, which makes it worth a look. Yet another in my continued attempt to play through all of Puppet Combo / Torture Star's catalogue (at least, all the catalogue that I bought in a bundle a while back). -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
FEAR & HUNGER 2: TERMINA | Karin Playthrough 1 Horror Game Analysis 2024-03-09 | Wherein I restart my streams of Termina, engaging in various discussions about art direction, game design, procedural rhetoric, game studies literature, philosophy, and other typical tangential discussions that all loop back around to JUST HOW GOOD THIS GAME IS. Seriously. It's amazing. Apart from the Mob. Screw the Mob. Thanks to everyone for watching. Have a good week ahead!Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Sly Raccoon Comfy Retrospective Playthrough [2] Horror Game Analysis 2024-03-02 | Sly 1 finished :) Another great game off the stream backlog, for the archives. Thanks everyone for watching! The first two of these were originally done in 2023. The next stream was done the day I made this public. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Sly Raccoon Comfy Retrospective Playthrough [1] Horror Game Analysis 2024-03-02 | Objectively my best playthrough. Actually done in July 2023. So a bit old. Was originally Patreon exclusive. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
SLY 1 Stream Archive [3] | 100% & RELAX Horror Game Analysis 2024-03-02 | Start off slow but then get on a good streak. I discuss game studies, game design, and analyze Sly (and other 3D platformers) while I play. I'll make the older VODs from last year available soon. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
The Power of Room 302: How Silent Hill 4 Mastered Space (and the Gaze) Horror Game Analysis 2024-02-08 | Walter Sullivan... it's time... to complete a two hour long video. If you enjoy this video, please share it around, and consider subscribing! If you join my Patreon, you get two-day early access to future video essays too. So originally this video wasn't meant to be another two hour one, but over the course of a year, it slowly grew and grew until it became fairly comprehensive. I really enjoyed writing it, despite the usual difficulties tackling a project this large - but it's worth it, as this is a game I truly treasure. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. PATREON: patreon.com/hgaWEBSITE: horrorgameanalysis.wordpress.comTWITCH: twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisCHAPTERS:0:00:00 SPOILER WARNING0:00:40 Introduction0:06:12 THE POWER OF ROOM 3020:08:08 ROOM 3020:50:40 SUBWAY WORLD1:01:17 FOREST WORLD1:12:07 WATER PRISON WORLD1:25:17 BUILDING WORLD1:29:43 APARTMENT WORLD1:36:45 HOSPITAL WORLD1:48:03 IN BETWEEN WORLDS1:52:56 OUTSIDE ROOM 3022:01:34 THE CONJURER2:09:39 Conclusion2:14:18 Post ScriptSources:SILENT HILL 4: THE ROOM (Konami, 2004)ALL HAUNTINGS (thanks to MrEdcar007): youtube.com/watch?v=bNs3S-DFxrI Scan Line footage: youtube.com/watch?v=Cos9f3pklb4Screams: freesound.org/people/guamorims/sounds/391358--Adelman, Anne. 2021. "Through the Looking Glass: Holding the Analytic Frame on Zoom".Arp, Robert; Brae, Patricia. 2011. "'The Owls Are Not What They Seem': The Logic of Lynch’s World".Baert, Barbara. 2021. "Petrifying Gazes: Danae and the Uncanny".Bell, Michael Mayerfield. 1997. "The Ghosts of Place".Boccagni, Paolo; Kusenbach, Margarethe. 2020. "For a comparative sociology of home: Relationships, cultures, structures".Cowan, Douglas E. 2022. "The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination".Clover, Carol. 1992. "Men, Women, and Chainsaws".Cuffe, Alex. 2016. "Body horror".Deleuze, Giles. 1988. "Spinoza: Practical Philosophy".Entrikin, Nicholas J. 1991. "The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity".Galloway, Alexander. 2006. "Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture".Gordon, Avery. 1997. "Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination".Fenichel, Otto. 1937. "The Scopophilic Instinct and Identification".Fisher, Mark. 2013. "Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures".Foster, Hal. 1996. "Obscene, Abject, Traumatic".Freud, Sigmund. 1919. "The Uncanny".Frosh, Stephen. 2013. "Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions".Hubner, Laura. 2018. "Fairytale and Gothic Horror".Jameson, Frederic. 1984. "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism".Kristeva, Julia. 1982. "Approaching Abjection".Perron, Bernard. 2006. "Silent Hill: The Terror Engine".Rapaport, Herman. 1994. "Between the Sign and the Gaze".Smethurst, Tobi. 2015. "Playing Dead in Videogames: Trauma in Limbo".Telotte, J. P. 1989. "Voices in the Dark: The Narrative Patterns of Film Noir".Turl, Adam. 2022. "Being with the Ghosts".Wagner, Rachel. 2014. "This Is Not a Game: Violent Video Games, Sacred Space, and Ritual".Wildschut, Tim; Sedikides, Constantine; Arndt, Jamie; Routledge, Clay. 2006. "Nostalgia: Content, Triggers, Functions".Zizek, Slavoj. 2002. "Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture".
Fear & Hunger 2: Termina is upon us! [2] Horror Game Analysis 2024-01-20 | Lots of productive discussion, ranging from ruins to psychology to bleakness and cynicism in horror. Plus another humiliating death. The usual! My Patreon: patreon.com/hgaWatch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Fear & Hunger 2: Termina [1 | Relaxed Experimentation] Horror Game Analysis 2024-01-11 | Read my article on it here: horrorgameanalysis.wordpress.com/2023/12/15/fear-hunger-2-termina-some-thoughtsIn which I decimate, am decimated, and generally have an awful, horrible, not very good time. Which, ironically, is something I enjoy very much. It's a relatively innocuous start but this playthrough is more of a slow, explorative one than anything that tries to min-max my way through, even if some areas I do know where to go and what I'm doing. It's a really fantastic game and it deserves the world. Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
SILENT HILL [Analysis / Relaxed Playthrough 3] Horror Game Analysis 2023-12-23 | I finish SILENT HILL, and in doing so complete the last of the original quadrilogy in stream form. A fantastic game, which deserves very much to be remembered. Thanks everyone for watching! I'd like to make a video essay in the style of my essay on Silent Hill 2 on this game next year. Let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see me touch on.Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
SILENT HILL [Analysis / Relaxed Playthrough 2] Horror Game Analysis 2023-12-16 | From the Hospital Otherworld to Nowhere, this game remains one of the best ever created. I adore every part of it. If this happens to be my last stream of 2023, well, thank you everyone for an amazing year. Here's to a great 2024 for all of us. Hope to see you around :)Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Pathologic Character Analysis: Aspity Horror Game Analysis 2023-12-03 | The following video contains spoilers for PATHOLOGIC and PATHOLOGIC 2. Battling my way through COVID, the post-COVID long fatigue, general exhaustion, malaise, etc. to bring you a somewhat tangential dive into the power of language and the presence of modernity in Pathologic, through the lens of the wonderful character Aspity. Also: poetry readings.Enjoy :)I imagine with the time remaining this year I'll see the year out with maybe one or two more substantive blog posts, then codas hopefully for all of my substantive video essays released this year, and finally a video on Silent Hill 4.Thanks so much for your patience and your support. I can't say enough how nice it's been to have folks in my corner, encouraging me, even when I've been feeling down and out. Here's to a good final month of 2023. Stay safe everyone, look out for each other.
SILENT HILL [Analysis / Relaxed Playthrough 1] Horror Game Analysis 2023-12-02 | I make my return. I get off to a slightly slow start by my standards, but by the end I'm back to my old self, I think. Still dealing with serious fatigue, but I really appreciate the turnout. Silent Hill is such a lovely, cozy game. Thanks everyone :)Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Yakuza Kiwami Blind Playthrough Episode 5 [Chapter 6] Horror Game Analysis 2023-09-29 | In which my internet failed partway through, Majima returns, and I solve various random problems for reasons I cannot fully comprehend. This is sort of a lost episode - I recorded it some weeks back now - but due to my internet cutting out I just hadn't pieced the stream back together until now.
Will Changeling Survive? [Pathologic Analysis Day 7 - 8] Horror Game Analysis 2023-09-29 | Thanks to my patrons, BlueVoices, Futurecityscape, and Frankaloons. You make what I do possible!Plenty happens: many antibiotics bought, much analyzed, from dialogue to endings to narrative framing. I love this game :) Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
In Which I Insist I Must Finish YAKUZA: KIWAMI [Chapter 7] Horror Game Analysis 2023-09-19 | Record time kidnapping! Family friendly activities! Child with no emotional range!(plus remarkable storytelling) Is Nishiki the best character in this game? All signs point to yes so far (though Kiryu is also lovable as always)Thanks to my patrons, Futurecityscape, BlueVoices, and Frankaloonsies. Thanks also to everyone for indulging this playthrough :)Oh, and stream archive five will be up probably later this week. Sorry to anyone who missed it while it was available as a VOD on Twitch. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Changeling Resurfaces Briefly [Pathologic Analysis Playthrough Day 5 -7] Horror Game Analysis 2023-09-18 | In which I barely survive, get placed under house arrest, inadvertently(?) cause a lot of deaths, break into a lot of houses, and analyze anything I can get my grubby, analyzing mitts on. Thanks to my patrons, Frankaloonsies, Futurecityscape, and BlueVoices. You can join too! patreon.com/hga I'm happy to chat with Patrons!Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Night at the Gates of Hell Review Horror Game Analysis 2023-09-16 | The following video contains scenes of sometimes intense violence and gore. Viewer discretion is advised. It also contains at points mild spoilers for "Night at the Gates of Hell", and slightly larger spoilers for two sillier games, "The Booty Creek Cheek Freak" and "Evil in the House of Dr. Fleshenstein". The earth has split open, and from its dark, wet maw spills forth the corpses of the long-dead. Do you dare to explore the cavernous hallways of a super-max security prison run by cultists of the apocalypse? Part of an HGA Double Feature, alongside the Mysteries of Lake Ophelia review.Hope you enjoy these experimental reviews! They're a way to expand on my "You Should Play" series and a way to try and make them into video review / essays.Some of the gameplay footage here is from the great archived playthrough done by "Ungodly", which you can watch in full here: youtu.be/BY-YBcxZA4I?si=Gag1AtVsSMEi05IFI really need to get better at recording footage of games as I play them, not after I've finished them!Chapters:0:00:00 Opening0:00:37 Introduction0:05:17 Aesthetics and Sound0:08:23 Gameplay0:14:20 Story and Dialogue0:17:10 Bonus Games (Spoilers)0:20:27 Conclusion0:21:02 Post-ScriptPatreon: patreon.com/hgaMy Blog: horrorgameanalysis.wordpress.comMy Twitch: twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia Review Horror Game Analysis 2023-09-16 | The following video contains scenes that may trigger viewers with tripophobia (fear of clusters of holes) and/or thassalophobia (fear of deep water).In the depths of a placid lake lies a dark and discomforting secret. Do you dare to cast your line? Part of an HGA Double Feature, alongside Night at the Gates of Hell review. Hope you enjoy these experiments! They're a way to expand on my "You Should Play" series and a way to try and make them into video review / essays. You Should Play is a video series that adapts and/or continues my You Should Play list on my website. While the games I include in this series are in no way perfect, they are special, and are worth your time.Links:Patreon: patreon.com/hgaMy Blog: horrorgameanalysis.wordpress.comMy Twitch: twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Changeling Continues [Pathologic Analysis Playthrough Day 4 - 5] Horror Game Analysis 2023-09-06 | Thanks to my patrons, Frankaloonsies, Futurecityscape, and BlueVoices! You make what I do possible. In which I analyze everything, chat about NZ history and accepting other people, and levitate on beds. Yes, levitation is now a skill Clara has. -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Pathologic Analysis Stream [Changeling Day 3 - 4] Clara Returns! She says Hi :) Horror Game Analysis 2023-08-29 | In which I uncover truths about Anna Angel and Bad Grief, and analyze everything I can think of. Clara's campaign is great at this stage - I seem to recall it loses a bit of focus later on, but I hope to be proven wrong on that point. Unfortunately Smooth Grief had to be cut out of the end of the video, but you can see him here: nexusmods.com/pathologic2/mods/13Thanks to my patrons, Frankaloonsies, BlueVoices, and Futurecityscape!Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Yakuza Kiwami Short Stream [1 Hour of Substories & Side Content] Horror Game Analysis 2023-08-14 | Just an hour or so of random side content in Yakuza Kiwami because I'm exhausted. Typically, since I did karaoke, some copyright robot swept in and decided to strike. Again. Sigh.Thanks to my patrons, Frankaloons, Futurecityscape, and BlueVoices. You guys rock!Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Night of the Clowns Prototype Build Stream Archive Horror Game Analysis 2023-08-14 | I play some of Puppet Combo's prototype game, Night of the Clowns (0.2 build). To play it, you have to go to their Patreon: patreon.com/puppetcombo. I also play just a tiny bit more of Salazar House. Apologies for no sound in the latter section - I'll try and fix whatever was going on there before next time. To support me, you can go to my Patreon: patreon.com/hgaThanks to Futurecityscape, Frankaloonsies, and BlueVoices for supporting me. If you join, I'm happy to chat about horror games with you :)Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisChapters: 0:00:00 Pre-Stream Ritual0:01:53 Night of the Clowns Prototype Build (0.2)0:42:13 The Horror of Salazar House
The Horror of Salazar House [Retro Italian/Gothic Horror] Horror Game Analysis 2023-08-09 | Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Return to Stay Out of the House [Finish Easy Playthrough] Horror Game Analysis 2023-07-31 | Finished Stay Out of the House (only on Easy though)! Maybe I'll return one day to do another playthrough or explore the bunker. Great game! -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
The Power of South Vale: How Silent Hill 2 Mastered Space Horror Game Analysis 2023-07-24 | The following video contains spoilers for SILENT HILL 2, the 2001 survival horror game developed by Team Silent, an ever-changing development team within Konami. So, this is my last video (at least for a very long time) on Silent Hill 2... I made it a long one.It is a reflection on the spaces that have been comforting and confronting to me, and also on a game which has made a significant impact on me as a player of video games. It is also the last of my planned trilogy of Silent Hill 2 videos I talked about earlier on, in both the Lakeview Hotel Restaurant video, and in the Baldwin Manor / Stillwater video.I have never made a video so long before, and it was an experiment to be sure. There were difficulties getting it across the finish line. It was, frankly, exhausting. The other difficulty was, namely, that I have been working on one version or another of this video since 2021. It has taken many forms and part of me is still uncertain as to whether I have managed to do a good job with it. I have done my best to polish up audio and visuals. I don't exactly have a professional recording studio, but I think I've done a good job, all things considered. I'm proud of what I've made - although I'm sure I'll look back on it soon and think of things I could have done better. That will be reflected in the next video instead!To clarify: the footage is from the Enhanced Edition of Silent Hill 2, a fan mod for the PC version of the game. I would have loved to have recorded from my PS2, but I don't have a capture card yet!Thanks to everyone who has supported the channel thus far, I really do appreciate it. Thanks also to my partner who put up with me editing this for far too late into several nights!It has been a long, difficult journey to get this video out there. But now, it feels like I can finally rest. :)Thanks, Silent Hill 2. You made me... happy. I hope I did you justice.Special thanks to my patrons, Frankaloons, Futurecityscape, and BlueVoices. If you want to join yourself, you can go here: patreon.com/hgaChapters:0:00:00 Spoiler Warning0:00:13 Introduction0:08:27 THE POWER OF SOUTH VALE0:12:42 The Bathroom0:19:12 The Lookout0:27:38 The Forest Trail0:33:42 The Graveyard0:47:17 The Streets of Silent Hill1:06:59 The Apartments1:21:34 Rosewater Park1:27:51 The Bowling Alley1:33:32 Heaven's Night1:40:07 Brookhaven Hospital1:53:34 The Otherworld Streets2:02:42 Toluca Lake2:07:57 Conclusion2:12:50 Post-ScriptSources:Aspen, Jessica; Bacon, Simon. 2019. Monstrous Spaces: The Other Frontier. Cremin, Ciara. 2016. Exploring Video Games with Deleuze and Guattari. Ciccoricco, David. 2009. "Games of Interpretation and a Graphophiliac God of War", from Intermediality and Storytelling. Doyle-Myerscough, Kaelan. 2018. Intimate Worlds: Reading for Intimate Affects in Contemporary Video Games. Gheran, Niculae Liviu; Monteith, Ken. 2019. Monstrous Spaces: The Other Frontier.Deleuze, Giles. 1988. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Galloway, Alexander. 2006. Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture. Galloway, Alexander. 2004. Social Realism in Gaming.Ruberg, Bonnie. 2015. No Fun: The Queer Potential of Video Games that Annoy, Anger, Sadden, and Hurt. Schoonover, Karl. 2018. "What Do We Do With Vacant Spaces in Horror Films?" Winter, Bodo. 2014. Horror Movies and the Cognitive Ecology of Primary Metaphors.
Onimusha: Warlords Blind Playthrough Ends! [Survival Horror / Hack n Slash] Horror Game Analysis 2023-07-19 | A great, short, fun game. Earnest and delightful at almost every turn (bar being unable to skip cutscenes). Very worth playing through!Thanks to my patrons, Frankaloonsies, Futurecityscape, and BlueVoices! To join, go here: patreon.com/hga Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
Onimusha: Warlords Blind Playthrough Begins [Survival Horror / Hack n Slash]! Horror Game Analysis 2023-07-17 | First Onimusha experience, and I loved it! Tired but had a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy it too!Thanks to my patrons, Frankaloonsies, Futurecityscape, and BlueVoices! To join, go here: patreon.com/hgaWatch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysis
I finish Silent Hill: Origins so you dont have to [Stream Archive 3] Horror Game Analysis 2023-07-12 | It's over now. One of the worst Silent Hill games. Still not truly awful, but pretty bad - the plot is wafer-thin and the characterization goes unexplained. The final boss is just a generic demon, nowhere near as interesting as Incubus OR Incubator from the original game. Two plots basically fight each other for screentime and neither of them win. The combat is dull, the boss fights are way too easy - but at least there are some cool puzzles, environments, and music throughout. A solid 5/10. A way to scratch a generic classic survival horror itch, but not frightening and not that interesting. And no, we don't count Book of Memories. Thanks to my patrons, Frankaloonsies, Futurecityscape, and BlueVoices! To join, go here: patreon.com/hgaBroadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at twitch.tv/horrorgameanalysisChapters:0:00:00 Pre-Stream Ritual0:01:53 Artaud Theatre (Cont.)0:49:51 Caliban "Boss Fight"0:51:50 Streets of Silent Hill1:14:09 Riverside Motel1:31:24 Butcher "Boss Fight"1:33:21 Riverside Motel (Cont.)2:02:50 Sad Daddy "Boss Fight"2:05:37 bad, just skip this puzzle honestly2:16:47 Hospital / Streets of Silent Hill / Otherworld2:25:05 Alessa's Dream "Boss Fight"2:26:26 The End..?2:34:29 The End.
