#I’m so not normal about this game

[clonedchaos]

Replaying Dark Revival for the first time in months for the Halloween overlay and I forgot how creepy the elevator scene is. Like WILSON if you don’t stop your YAPPING I’m going to backhand you to the shadow realm. You’re making my girl uncomfortable! >:(

Wilson: “It’s beautiful out. Just… gorgeous.”

Me: “If you don’t shut the heck up I’m about to make your pronouns “L + ratio/ R.I.P. bozo”, old man.”

I MISSED THIS GAME SO MUCH, YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!!

[sleeqymoon]

cutest sunshine in the entire universe, space, and beyond 🗣️ 🌺

[viarayy01-blog]

the act that never ends

[rainyn0ise]

Some Slay the Princess sketches… 🗡️

[necromancer-punk]

coming out :)

[crazymecjc]

his hands are gentle.

[insomniac-dormouse]

Their descent into madness is everything to me actually

I love him so fucking much

[applesaucefilledsocks]

Have some Bioshock Sketches!!!

This game has infected my brain like a parasite- HAH REFERENCE- I’m a parasite according to Andrew Ryan-

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[czernysglittersoup]

the whole tragedy of “we are the right people, i think … this is just the wrong time…” and renee knowing she and jean could never work because jean could never truly learn what it is to thrive instead of merely endure if he stayed in south carolina with the foxes and the whole “maybe in another universe” of it all, but this is quite literally the only universe in which jean moreau is alive

[spineless-lobster]

Do you guys think charon looks after melinoë in a way because

1. he’s doing it on behalf of zagreus

2. he misses hypnos and thanatos and he misses taking care of them when they were younger

[orioofthestars]

OFFICIAL RELEASE SO IM BRINGING THIS BACK—

yk Hermes’ new design? Kinda reminds me of smth…

[daffsforstag]

Does he need heirs by any chance?🙏

[vinceres-a-loser]

haven’t even owned the game for a full week and i’m obsessed

[cowsnotcrows]

little shepherd 🐑🐑🐑

[starvingnarcissistmusic]

I should really make a non music blog so that people who like my music don’t get bombarded by random unrelated stuff but this is like tangentially related sort of so whatever

God I just love Mal Du Pays. I am always a sucker for “the enemy is you / the enemy is a manifestation of some part of you” trope in any media but MDP has by far gotta be one of the best applications of it I’ve ever seen.

I mean even just the design of it is brilliant. Obviously inverting a characters colors to get the evil / darker version isn’t anything new for this trope, but ISAT is unique in that you have quite literally been STARING AT MDP THE WHOLE GAME, every single time you die and every single time you loop back. Turning the non diegetic game over screen into a diegetic encounter is incredibly clever and immediately gives MDP that sense of crushing pressure that makes it so memorable.

Also literally any game where the game over music is later established as the motif of a character automatically just wins me over by default. It’s such an effective tool in immediately conveying just what MDP is, even before any of the dialogue starts. It’s the end of this journey. It’s the pain of a home you’ve never known. It’s an entire universe collapsing in on you at once. It’s the end. It’s the end. It’s the end.

And I think, it’s a little Fucked Up, that Siffrin’s sadness looks identical to him. Every other sadness we see in the game is very distinctly not human in appearance, incredibly abstract and inhuman pretty much all around the board. But Mal Du Pays? The sadness of our main character? Pretty much the same. Literally a color swap. I think that’s incredibly telling. A being born of Siffrin’s grief and pain and agony, and the form it takes is his own silhouette.

Thematically, it’s very On The Nose that Siffrin’s worst enemy is simply himself, but at the same time, it’s exactly what you expect. I remember getting to MDP for the first time, seeing Siffrin walk through the void and just… knowing what would come next. Of course it would be another him. For Siffrin, his hell is himself. This nightmarish half-life, devoid of a past and with nothing but a quickly collapsing future, his worst impulses and fears and agonies and pains personified, and all it looks like is his shadow. Of course, what else could be here, at his lowest of lows, but a reflection? Of course there would be nothing here but you. It’s always only ever been you. Mal Du Pays is a mirror. A mirror that hates you like you do, that loathes you like you loathe yourself. In the worst, most monstrous way possible, it tells you exactly what you’ve been telling yourself your whole journey. And so you believe it, let it sink its words into your skin and bury you in the misery. Because maybe then, maybe when you finally give in, it won’t hurt anymore.

(A cold comfort is still, however little it may be, a comfort.)

And then you’re saved. The King is defeated, your friends came back for you, you manage to come up for air again. But it’s not enough. It’s never enough. Everything is still coming to an end. You’re still going to be all alone. And so, you sink again.

Notice how Bigfrin doesn’t have a face in this panel? This is Siffrin at their most self destructive, most desperate, lower than lower than low. And in a way, I think that by quite literally looking like the Sadness they nearly created, they’re symbolically drawing a parallel there. Siffrin fully embraces what Mal Du Pays represented, to the point that their new form looks just like it. Even if they didn’t manifest MDP, they are just as horrible. After all, the mirror goes both ways. Mal Du Pays looks just like Siffrin, but that also means that Siffrin looks just like Mal Du Pays. And maybe, in Siffrin’s head, they’re one and the same. Maybe they’ve always been.

Oh god it’s 1 in the morning. I did not mean to make this that long lmao w h o o p s

uhhhhhh in summary tldr mdp is very good isat is also very good play isat

(also if you want more MDP content, I sort of wrote a whole song about it. So listen to that if you’d like. Im goin to bed)

[izzyfishie]

sangihun comfort sangihun comfort sangihun comfort sangihun comfort

little sang-woo crying his eyes out because he thinks he's dying (he has a cold) and gi-hun reassuring him and holding him "i'm going to infect you, hyung" "shh.. you already would have done so."

sang-woo getting absolutely abysmal headaches and gi-hun kissing his forehead trying to "kiss the headaches away" and sang-woo pretends it works so he can get more kisses

in high school: gi-hun getting into a bad fight at school like the rebellious little shit he was, later knocking on sang-woo's window with bruises. sang-woo calls him a fucking idiot while icing his wounds

baby sangihun kissing each other's bandaids when they'd scrape their knees

young sang-woo being afraid of thunderstorms because of their loudness and struggling to sleep and gi-hun attempting to make him feel better

💗💗💗💗