Junji Ito in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Check out this Animal Crossing: New Horizons island dedicated to the horror works of Junji Ito! (The creator shared some video on Reddit here).
Summer Fun Time Reading and Other Things 2021!
The solstice and the the Fourth of July have passed and summer is definitely upon us, my friends. It’s hot, with cicadas (Brood X and Broods Otherwise), fireflies, fireworks, thunderstorms and humidity released upon my part of the world at least. And I have some suggestions for things […]
Translating Yakuza 0
At Gamasutra, Atlus’ Scott Strichart talks about translating the humor and tone of Yakuza 0 and translating and localizing games in general. “We’re doing it line by line, and suddenly we’re like ‘oh shit, here’s a pun.’ And when you hit that, you have to take a step […]
Resident Evil’s European Vacation
Last time on Angela Reviews a Resident Evil Game…actually, I was talking about the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake and its implications for the validity of video games as art. (TL;DR: they are, nyah, nyah.) But the time before that, I took a good long look at 2017’s […]
Choose Your Fighter: Mortal Kombat (2021) and The Night Comes for Us (2018)
This week’s Guest Star is Sachin Hingoo. Sachin is a Toronto-based writer and editor at biffbampop.com. He has never had a superpower, but would like to think that if he did it would be more interesting than an armoured sweater. ~~~ [Warning: The following contains copious spoilers for […]
Chekov’s The Seagull in Sims
Helen Shaw considers Celine Song’s staging of Chekov’s The Seagull in Sims 4. “I kept trying to work out why the show, which was often extremely goofy, succeeded so much at enveloping me, in a way that other interactive and virtually ‘immersive’ shows have not. I think Song’s […]
