Spoilers for the following games: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, mild spoilers for Dark Souls (series), Fallen London (formerly Echo Bazaar), and Cultist Simulator. Ninpou! Dark Souls Bunshin no Jutsu!(Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, official promotional material) I love Japanese food. There is something so fulfilling about a full Japanese meal: the flavours, textures, colours, the neatness…
Writing The Sexy Brutale
Spoilers for Undertale (game), The Sexy Brutale (game) and an absolute corker of a soundtrack. 'We didn't rig the roulette/ it was always turning/ whilst my mask was burning.('The Sexy Brutale', promotional material) On 7th December 2017, Tequila Works released a quirky murder mystery game set in a stable time loop, a story of subtle…
Of Chidis and Cheating
Spoilers for The Good Place, including the ending. As regular readers will know, I am a great fan of The Good Place and gushed about it not that long ago. As the finale grew closer, however, I spotted a few niggles which suggested to me that, unlike Philippa Foot in the world's most stable trolley,…
Writing Brexit
Spoilers for the 2020 remake of the British version of House of Cards and Planet of the Apes. Yesterday the last episode in the long-running, popular comedy-soap BlocEnders, which has been a mainstay of British television and newspaper for forty-seven years, took place. The premise was surprisingly simple: popular British figures, chiefly politicians, played overblown parodies of themselves,…
Writing Worlds 