Obscuring Choice
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is largely a linear game. In the few choices it does give the player, there are missed opportunities that would have added even more depth to its narrative.
The Gacha that Got Me
Honkai: Star Rail Is Celebrating its 3rd Anniversary! To mark the occasion, I look back on my two-year journey with the first gacha that managed to hold me - and hug me just warmly enough to shake a few coins loose.
This isn't my device...
It's time to disregard privacy and to encourage a player's nosiness! Here are a few interesting games that encourage you to search someone else's device.
2025 (in Games)
To establish tradition, one has to first turn that element into a habit. However, if I were to do the exact same thing as I did last year, it wouldn't quite be me, would it? There is more than one hobby to pick, and why not create a different work this year?
From Victor to Frankenstein: How the Mechanisms adapted the Frankenstein-Narrative.
How does one re-interpret a literary classic while keeping it recognisable? That's what we're here to find out.
Scarlet Hollow is a brilliant horror experience
A quick and spoiler-free pitch as to why one should pick up this amazing game. It's one of Mischief's favourite games for 2025 for sure.
A look at genre-categories: Puzzling out puzzle games.
It's time for more genre theory. This time with a focus on the ever-expanding catalogue and terms to describe video game genres. With each new idea, or combination, of either visual representation or gameplay mechanics, another subcategory is created.
2024 (in Books)
Happy New Year! Mischief promised to share the books that they've read in 2024 - and here they are. From theory to fiction, from silly to serious - and the occasional sprinkle of horror.
PoT: The Reader's Dilemma
What does it mean to read? What are we even reading, and why do we care so much about that fact in the first place? We're covering the random devaluation of a format, personal preferences, and the importance of diversification.
PoT: Coraline (2009)
A brilliant stop-motion movie that just celebrated its 15th year anniversary. We're talking about our impressions - old and new - of Coraline's truly horrific adventure.
It's impossible to talk about Ghost Trick (2023)
Ghost Trick is a good game. I recommend it wholeheartedly. I just can't state why because one can't talk about it. The restraint is actually real this time.
About reading books and Goodreads
Sometimes you try to write one thing only to end up writing something completely different. This is an article about Goodreads, lists and books.