I love Sierra in general for its over-the-top rags to riches to rags story, and she's pretty much the cover girl. (Literally, in the case of Softporn Adventure.)

I'm going to avoid this rabbit hole, but if I recall there are two sex scenes, one near the beginning of the game that is fully consensual, and one later on that is considered the rape scene. They're both on youtube. In the second, the music shifts from cheesy softcore romance music to a ridiculous Latin-chanting…

Never quite thought of it as an Anne Rice homage but now that you say it it's staring me in the face.

It's a great game and contrary to the article I found the acting perfectly cromulent. Making an FMV game centered around a homosexual werewolf relationship where a good 50% of the gameplay involves touring museum exhibits was certainly a bold choice, but they pulled it off.

That was the game that made me realize that maybe FMV wasn't the future of video games after all. The worst part was they had a story far less mature than even the usual Sierra King's Quest fare and desperately tried to adult it up with a completely tasteless rape scene. But in defense of FMV, the only reason we…

Someone's finally come up with a legitimate use for the internet.

Whoops, completely missed where you said you hadn't read the books. Going from what you get in the movies definitely presents a much more obsessed picture, not unlike the rough Taxi Driver narrative, come to think of it! If it works at all, it's 100% due to Rickman's performance. Were I a director, the phrase "It…

Lily exists in the series primarily as a motivation for Snape and Harry. All I can go from is the text, where the relationship is characterized as a genuine friendship that went awry because Snape joined a racist death cult, not because he was stalking her. Lily tells Snape that being a fascist racist that makes…

I think the Taxi Driver comparison might be a little far. Lily wasn't some random stranger he met as an adult loner, she was his best friend who genuinely cared for him. And as far as I recall from the books, he never tried to bother her after she rejected him (granted, maybe joining a world-domination seeking death…

I've said something along these lines before, but despite the game's general awfulness, this is the first game I remember giving me a genuine emotional reaction. The world is bleak and lonely and the haunting (for an NES game) music makes it even bleaker. While you're still trying to figure out what the hell you're…

That caught my eye too. So does the animated series exist in this universe and the movie Jem character intentionally copies it, or did they just need to fill time and threw in some youtube clips?? All I know for sure is it's not worth thinking about further.

Lincoln's war goals were absolutely focused on preserving the Union, but a Union with slavery confined to where it already existed and with slavery banned in all future territory. He always meant to put slavery on the eventual path to extinction, only originally through a much slower approach. Lincoln was elected on…

Not only that, but the stated goal of the Southern leadership was not to preserve slavery and white supremacy to but to expand them as much as possible, both by endlessly conquering new slave territory in Central America and beyond and by manipulating federal policy to (potentially) eliminate the constitutionality of…

Indeed. I came to these games from NES games, where it was expected that you died and lost all progress constantly. Dying again and again and again was just part of the process of beating a game. Old Sierra games are like assembling a Rube Goldberg machine through trial and error until you finally get it to work…

Larry 3 is still surprisingly playable, except for the few weird arcade sections towards the end. I've always stood up for Larry 7 as the best execution of the concept, where pure ridiculousness stays far enough ahead of casual sexism that everything remains fun. Larry 5 and 6, however, are poorly designed piles of…

Played Shattered Memories back when it came out and loved it. Unfortunately I think it got overlooked because it was much more concerned with telling an interesting story than survival horror. Small games like Her Story might give Barlow's style of game a chance to prosper without AAA expectations.

Thinking of all the effort that must have gone into writing the dialogue to reveal just enough and cutting the clips so the revelations are surprising no matter when you discover them almost makes my brain hurt. It's one of the most unique and impressive projects I've seen in ages.

It's possible Abraham did kill Isaac in the original story and it was sanitized by later scribes—Abraham comes down from the mountain alone afterwards. That means in a few centuries someone will just pop the line "I love you and I'm sending you to live on a plantation in Hawaii" into the Stannis/Shireen tent scene,…

The venom in Lennon's voice on lines like "That's a lie" is as creepy as the entirety of "Run for Your Life." I prefer my Lennon vocals seething with barely contained rage as opposed to the mellow hippy voice he adopted on a lot of later tracks.

Geralt definitely looks like a teenager's first DnD character. It initially put me off on the character too, but there's a certain charm to the way the Witcher universe goes all in on the absolute geekiest version of fantasy possible. Mainstream western fantasy still seems a little embarrassed by anything overly…