Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 656

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• GirlVersusGame
• Sat, 12:29am

More Spookiness this time it's The Midnight Walk

My original plan was to give it an hour or two tonight after some traveling, that hour or two turned into five and I'm still playing. It's more of an experience than a game, one people really need to see for themselves. I went in completely blind and was blown away by the visuals and the aesthetic. I don't recall having ever seen stop-motion animation in a game before, it feels like a Tim Burton film in the best ways possible. I lost myself and my real surroundings so quickly, and I wasn't alone either I had Potboy by my side. I really can't get over how well sculpted the characters and the world are.

• The Swedish text in the books is a nice addition too, the Developers are from Sweden after all.

The music too is fantastic. I think I'll need to look into the soundtrack when I finish. The jazz is so spontaneous in it's arrival and departure as it makes way for sweeping Scandinavian folk music. It reminds me of the first time I watched Taxi Driver and heard Bernard Herrmann's score and the saxophone solos by both Ronnie Lang and Tom Scott. The whole game feels so haunting, isolated and yet so hopeful. It's scarier than Until Dawn too, I've been running and hiding from all kinds of creepy somethings, it's perfect for Spooky season.

I'm also going to work on upgrading my dwarves and gear in Deep Rock Galactic Survivors. It's harder than most games in the genre, and there's not a lot of room for strategy when you are being swarmed by hundreds of giant bugs, I still haven't beaten a Tier Three run. I do like that it has a gear system though, it has the usual permanent stat upgrades that you'd expect too. Having items you can equip adds a lot more to the gameplay loop. The mining is a nice twist too. I'll probably work on some Ballxpit too, that's been my main portable game while I was away. Overall I'm just happy that I finally played some Horror games, and might play even more.

If someone told me I'd play Silent Hill 2 and Until Dawn I'd say they were crazy, it was a nice accomplishment. I didn't grow up with Halloween, I've adopted it now and Spooky games were always something I thought I'd never play due to nerves/etc, it was good to push those limits. My mind thinks it's three in the morning though so I'm going to pause my Midnight Walk and do some sleep walking instead. Happy Spooky season Folks and remember to never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle 🍵

• Nineteen more sleeps until Leonida