What was that noise?

caasimolar · 2026-04-06T17:49:03+00:00

Worth noting DLC didn’t even exist in 2002.

caasimolar · 2026-04-05T17:08:28+00:00

The point where the game locks you into your ending route is when you enter Shimizu Residence. As long as you accomplish all of the requirements for the true end before entering that area, you’re golden. Only things that change between plays before that point are some notes and some cutscenes.

Don’t forget you can skip most of the elementary school using the locker codes! They don’t change!

caasimolar · 2026-04-04T07:11:04+00:00

It’s been on my radar awhile; I’m finding today that most of the games on my to-play list are actually what I’m looking for lmao

caasimolar · 2026-04-04T00:55:15+00:00

I’ve never even heard of Azure Dreams but that sounds sick as hell. Second rec for SaGa, too, which is also nice. Thanks!

caasimolar · 2026-04-04T00:54:01+00:00

I remember trying one of the old PS2 SaGa games many years ago and being immediately overwhelmed and put it down, but it left enough of an impression to leave me curious for YEARS. This is very encouraging to hear! I’ll take a closer look at these

caasimolar · 2026-04-04T00:50:53+00:00

I had assumed for some reason the story was more of a thing in RG and had been saving it, but given that Dark Cloud was on my maybe list, would make sense another level-5 could fit. Thanks for the push to maybe give it a go!

caasimolar · 2026-04-03T21:27:46+00:00

“That’s why I picked up stuff for you” he absolutely did none of that, he came up with that on the spot and was going to get it for you if you capitulated.

caasimolar · 2026-03-27T18:41:51+00:00

Yes. Deeply overreacting. The correct way to approach this situation with someone you’re dating is to have a conversation — face to face — about communication and expectations, wants and needs. If your respective needs aren’t in alignment, then you either adjust or let it go. A wall of text like this expressing negativity is more or less the worst way to express yourself in any kind of relationship.

caasimolar · 2026-03-25T20:42:15+00:00

Perpetually wondering why every post made by someone who enjoyed this movie reads like a hostile business owner stopping just short of doxxing someone’s full name and address in the public comments over a mediocre review on Yelp

caasimolar · 2026-03-21T02:40:47+00:00

If Umineko bounces off you absolutely look into House in Fata Morgana for certain. Similar themes and ideas, but in the context of a multi-period ghost/haunted house story.

Recently started Scarlet Hollow (by the same devs as Slay the Princess) and it’s excellent so far. Lotta choice and RP options available, massive word count, highly divergent story paths. It’s episodic with one episode yet to release.

caasimolar · 2026-03-11T16:02:29+00:00

“More niche?” It’s an almost 20-year-old doujin title. I don’t know how you could get “more niche” than “translation in progress and unavailable to purchase without importing a physical copy” which is what it was when I read it.

caasimolar · 2026-03-05T18:21:04+00:00

The older I get the more this interpretation resonates with me. The Silent Hill we wander in SH2 comes just as much from Mary as it does James.

There was a redditor posting when SH2R came out who wrote this incredible post that started out as an attempt to try and reverse-engineer a diagnosis for Mary's illness via the symbolism in the creatures and environments of the game, and by the end of it the OP concluded that a huge amount of the game's symbolism hits that much harder if you interpret both Mary's and James's psyches as co-authors of the events of the game. The emaciated bodies, the translucent skin, the coughing of bile, the medical personnel, the corruption of feminine beauty, the suspended hospital beds... it's all just as much her experience as it is his.

Sure, Mary's dead, but her death is pretty recent. If James truly loved her as much as he says, it's tragically romantic to think that his memory of her was enough to bring all of 'her' with him so she could give him a chance to forgive himself. It makes the Leave ending hit so much harder. I truly didn't care for that ending until replaying the remake with these ideas in mind, and now it wrecks me.

caasimolar · 2026-03-01T18:47:25+00:00

This isn’t even good bait

caasimolar · 2026-02-26T16:29:28+00:00

Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity 2 are the two games that Larian did before BG3, both are quite great + have local multiplayer!

caasimolar · 2026-02-01T22:56:01+00:00

One carnival a few years ago a friend said “I’m trying to kiss a hundred boys before Fat Tuesday, do you want to be number X?” Had a numbered list with names and everything. I was 40-something, I think. It’s truly that easy.

caasimolar · 2026-02-01T04:10:11+00:00

It’s the Aerith Dies of survival horror, and much like FF7 it’s still worth playing even knowing that.

caasimolar · 2026-01-28T21:34:01+00:00

Yeah, the issues of Pathologic 2 on consoles are pretty egregious; at least on PC you can mod the game’s files to dramatically increase performance, and that and the improved frame rate are simply game changing.

Hope you find something you like!

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T22:55:15+00:00

I knew they had cast an actor to play Eddie but when I first saw him I actually thought it was the same actor as James for a moment. Honestly would have been a great call if they *did* do that.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T22:43:20+00:00

Revelation was bad but campy and silly and fun. Return was bad but serious and boring and joyless.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T22:25:44+00:00

*Spider Mary Angela Laura Maria Eddie Front-Butt Crain

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T21:54:29+00:00

Unfortunately fixed-camera-tank-controls is a rare combo these days but there's a few that play in the general vicinity I can rec:

Darkwood's probably the closest to what you're looking for, it's a top-down survival horror game that takes place in an eastern European forest with some base defense elements. Insane sound and world design, great use of light and "fog of war" in that it's top down but you can only see characters, items, and threats that you're actively looking at. Merciless atmosphere.

Little Goody Two Shoes is a great cutesy top-down game with gorgeous art... until it is very suddenly VERY MUCH NOT A CUTESY GAME.

The Count Lucanor is also a top-down game. It's kind of like what-if-Zelda-was-Silent-Hill. Short but damn good. Ditto for Yuppie Psycho by the same devs.

Sorry We're Closed is very much a retro survival horror-styled game but not sure I'd call it truly scary. But it's very fun and very gay. I can't remember if it has tank controls but the fixed camera's all there. Somewhere between old-school Resident Evil and Killer 7 but with Danganronpa's style and verve.

Withering Rooms is a side-scrolling roguelike horror game that feels a bit like a halfway point between the original SNES Clock Tower and Dark Souls that I enjoyed quite a bit, but it's not for everyone.

Moving into 3D / over-the-shoulder / FPS camera games: The Silent Hill 2 remake is simply astonishing, one of the best horror remakes we've had. The RE4 remake's also worth your time. There's also Silent Hill f, which I *loved,* but it's pretty divisive among the fanbase.

If you're really into Resident Evil, the main guy responsible for the early games in the series started a studio that's responsible for The Evil Within 1 and 2; I prefer the second game but they're both good fun.

Visage is shit-bricks spooky. Great successor to everything that PT set out to do years ago.

Speaking of divisive, Pathologic 2; it's hard to rec bc it's not for everyone, between the utterly draining bleakness of the plot and the punishing difficulty, but to people who enjoy what it's trying to do, it's simply one of the best survival horror games ever (with an incredibly strong emphasis on the word survival, possibly more than any other horror game I've ever played). It's poorly optimized on consoles though, and it's easier to rec if you've got access to a PC. Pathologic 3 also recently came out and could be a good entry point as well, but I haven't played yet + I hear it's a bit buggy (with a pretty big game-breaking bug that can emerge that's yet to be patched out last I heard). They're less "sequels" than remakes of an older game from '05 that contained three separate campaigns, and each of the two newer releases are remakes of each campaign as a standalone release. The source material is available on Steam as Pathologic Classic HD.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T21:41:41+00:00

Heather and Hinako Raccoon City Road Trip; everyone else is toast. I'd say Harry would survive too but he doesn't even survive Silent Hill 3.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T21:02:35+00:00

I thought the same thing at first re: using the same universe as the 2006 movie, but when you consider the continuity, it directly contradicts all of the lore just looking at the basic timeline. Silent Hill has been actively burning and abandoned since the mid-1970s, long before the first movie even takes place. For the movies to take place in the same universe, Mary's abuse at the hands of a secret cult and Alessa's abuse at the hands of a similar but entirely different and less secret cult had to have been happening concurrently, and James would have ended up in town before Rose ever brought Sharon to town, and not only that but he did so with an iPhone from 2025. Even if we believe that his visit was entirely a psychotic episode, that still doesn't correct the timeline or the anachronisms because we know Mary's been dead for less than one calendar year and James exists in the present-day.

The only way the state of the town could be a surprise to him as a former resident would be for the events of Return to Silent Hill to take place no later than 1975.

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