#the spirts have different aspects that make each of them terrifying and id love to break down the spirits as an artist and psych student
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I love horror games they are high key a core part of my existence and artistic inspiration. And as such it does mean I an unsettled by werid things not really average stuff. It's kind of hard to be scared of many normal things working customer service and also having the habit of breaking stuff down cause Ohoho lore moment.
Grotesque doesn't mean scary, features or startlement doesn't equate to scary. It's association for one person a thing can be terrifying while another well boring.
It's I think a reason why Japanese visual horror novels work so well is that they don't rely on purely apperence of things to make someone scared. There's more to it. It's not just jumpscares but a slow or quick imposing dread and stakes placed and given to you the player. That being said that is probably the reason beside ohoho story and design that I adore Shiin/Death mark. Yep always comes back to this series.
Like I do not equate scary monsters with fear but the designs and love of details and story written and designed is a bit to good that I have to make sure to not be in a can have psychosis go nuts cause the game is a bit to good at design my brain goes ah here let's do this in real life. There's a level of skill to making designs so fearful that they stick in your brain long after you play a game. It has to stand out and man Death Mark actually nails that.
#kannon soilders handling to me is a defintion of instills fear. for a good reason#the spirts have different aspects that make each of them terrifying and id love to break down the spirits as an artist and psych student#analysis is my passion and so is visual novels when i have the mental space to read them#also reccomend checking out the artbook for death mark if i do a dive one of these days i will whip it out to use#yep psych this is accidently a go play death mark pitch especially since spirit hunter has 3 games now#dont have energy to play? watch manlybadasshero's lets plays he handles it calmly and covers all the lore its a great listen and watch!#yeah this game is a major example of how awesome horror action visual novels can be and i wish more people in the west liked this style#also that death mark got its manga adaptation fully done and translated.#shiin#death mark rambles
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