TheCementMixer

. For the second entry in The Cement Mixer's unnamed month of horror, I decided to bounce around a couple of horror games: World of Horror and Phasmophobia. I actually have also been playing Darkwood, but I wound up writing that piece for another website, which I'll link to in a future post. World of Horror is an early access indie adventure game reminiscent of old DOS RPGs and Junji Ito's work where you are tasked with keeping an ancient god from waking up and destroying the world by solving mysteries in a small Japanese town. Developed by Pantasz and published by Ysbryd Games, World of Horror is a stylishly chilling little roguelike RPG that filled me with intrigue. Mechanically, World of Horror is multiple a game of rolling dice and meter management. You have a handful of stats, like something you'd find in a tabletop RPG. You often won't see anything that's not your two health stats, reason and stamina, being applied. But repetition and context clues aid yo...

  Hey everyone, sorry on the delays for the October posts. I've been going pretty hard at freelance work lately so I've had less energy to put to this overall. On the bright side, I managed pitched one of my ideas for a post here into something for another website, Play.Jumpcutonline.co.uk.   You can read the post here!    Darkwood I've got two reviews for you coming up, one on World of Horror and the other on Phasmaphobia - I just need to play more of it.   I'm also probably going to launch a Patreon or something instead of the Ko-fi to raise funds because I need money, to put it plainly. I appreciate all forms of support though, and thanks for reading! It'll launch in the next post.

Happy Halloween the second everyone. Or something. I'm not very festive in general and it's honestly a character flaw of mine. Anyways, I don't usually celebrate Halloween and I'm not a horror fan, but I have been wanting to expand my horizons. So I'm gonna look at four things of the spooky and/or scary variety this month, starting with the 1977 classic, Suspiria.   Suspiria is a 1977 horror movie about a mysterious German ballet-school and a string of supernatural murders, at least that's what the tin says. It doesn't really ever drift from that - closer inspection does reveal more about the "Why" and the "How" of Suspiria, but for me in 2020, it's a single concept executed well, created by director Luca Guadagnino and crew, but also also the year 1977. You should go watch it, because I'll be talking about it and what it meant to me here. Here's a link.  Okay, so once again let me preface this by saying that I'm not anyon...