{"id":3940,"date":"2015-10-31T19:10:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2015-10-31T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:19:15","slug":"horror-game-curse-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=3940","title":{"rendered":"Horror Game Curse Roundup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<br \/>\nSorry I haven&#8217;t written in awhile, blog. I&#8217;ve been writing other things. <a href=\"http:\/\/poetfox.getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=8\">Novels<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/poetfox\">such<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been writing Horror Game Essays for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthestick.com\">On the Stick<\/a>!<br \/>\nYou remember how I&#8217;ve always done that, right? This year was no exception!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just wanted to put them all here, to have them all in one place, in case you missed some of them. I wrote a lot of nice things, I think!<\/p>\n<p>First off, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthestick.com\/491\/the-curse-of-31-days-of-horror-games-danganronpa-2-goodbye-despair\">Danganronpa 2<\/a>, and how the game&#8217;s use of gamification in all of its interactions helps to create the proper sense of both closeness and distance for it to really make you care about everyone.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthestick.com\/492\/the-curse-of-31-days-of-horror-games-ultra-despair-girls-danganronpa-another-episode\">Ultra Despair Girls<\/a>, and how it works to turn a fairly one-note character of questionable stereotypes into a well-rounded character you care a whole lot for.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a very difficult and personal essay about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthestick.com\/498\/the-curse-of-31-days-of-horror-games-undertale\">UNDERTALE<\/a>, specifically Toriel, and why the game reflected so heavily on some of the hardships in my life. This contains spoilers for a lot of the game, though I don&#8217;t get into a lot of specifics.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about the recent Visual Novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthestick.com\/499\/the-curse-of-31-days-of-horror-games-amnesia-memories-diamond-world\">Amnesia: Memories<\/a>, specifically one of the routes, Diamond World, and it&#8217;s fairly upsetting portrayal of Big\/little, Dom\/sub dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthestick.com\/510\/the-curse-of-31-days-of-horror-games-monsterhearts\">Monsterhearts<\/a>, a tabletop roleplaying game I really, really, really like. It captures that teenager feeling so well, and it plays with themes anyone can pick up, and I tried to explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthestick.com\/511\/the-curse-of-31-days-of-horror-games-hylics\">Hylics<\/a>, and why a game about face melting and weird creatures is really all about being able to relax.<\/p>\n<p>Phew, that&#8217;s a lot of stuff to read, huh? If you go back and take a look at any of it, I hope you like it. It was fun, as always, to pretend to be a games writer for a month! You should also check out everyone else&#8217;s videos and essays and whatnot! Tons of cool stuff on there.<br \/>\nAnyway, back to all my usual writing. Short Stories and Novels! Huzzah!<br \/>\nHappy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Sorry I haven&#8217;t written in awhile, blog. I&#8217;ve been writing other things. Novels and such. I&#8217;ve also been writing Horror Game Essays for On the Stick! You remember how I&#8217;ve always done that, right? This year was no exception! Anyway, I just wanted to put them all here, to have them all in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}