The Prequel Dilemma – A Review Of Life Is Strange: Before the Storm – The Subtext Ep. 5 Life Is Strange: Before the Storm shouldn’t have worked. As a direct prequal to Dontnod Entertainment’s Life Is Strange – which is,…
This is The Subtext and I’m Dan and welcome – today we’re going to be doing a The Order: 1886 review, released in 2015 for PS4, developed by Ready at Dawn and published by Sony. Introduction to the Game It’s…
This is The Subtext and I’m Dan and this is my Get Even Review. Get Even is a curious title, developed by The Farm 51 and published by Bandai Namco – it feels like a modern-day AA game – the…
You’re “A traveler with no destination” – that’s the insightful piece of wisdom a character shares with series protagonist Kate Walker near the end of Syberia 3, and sadly it’s a sentiment that couldn’t be more accurate to this game;…
This is The Subtext and I’m Dan. This Christmas the BBC’s airing a new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders, starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot so I thought it’d be fun to do an ABC Murders review of…
Welcome to The Subtext – I’m Dan and this is my third game review that ties in with my YouTube channel! The two games we’ve looked at so far, Detention and Knock Knock, have been a bit on the unconventional…
Welcome to The Subtext – I’m Dan and this is my second blog post (after Detention) and links to my second episode on my growing YouTube channel! This week we’re continuing our deep-dive into video game horror – and today’s…
The Subtext: a cursory discussion of horror, to be explored more deeply in later episodes – specifically horror through imagery and disturbing themesto evoke a feeling and examining how time and place (atmosphere) can affect experience – as opposed to…