Knowing I’m not going to get this write up finished before Halloween at my previous pace, I’m upping the regularity of these updates. Episode 4 Alan awakens to Alice’s face looking down on him, but it then begins to change and takes on the appearance of Dr Hartman. He tells Wake that he’s had a […]
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#ThrowbackThursday #Horroctober edition: Alan Wake – week 4
It’s taking longer than anticipated to type these up, I tried to have two episodes done for Thursday but even just doing Episode 3 resulted in a delay, so I’ll be increasing the rate at which I post them in order to try and get this finished for Halloween. Episode 3 Alan and Barry arrive […]
A rollercoaster week in Eorzea
It’s been a while since I last posted about Final Fantasy XIV, in fact, it was back in July when I was trying to run an alt character, which I’ve since abandoned. The reason for that was that I just couldn’t give my main the time I wanted, and at that stage, I think I […]
#ThrowbackThursday #Horroctober edition: Alan Wake – week 3
Episode Two New York, Three years ago. Alan enters his apartment and hears Alice call out to him, she’s done some cover shots for his next novel that she wants him to check out, but when he gets to his office the lights go out. She begins to panic, so Alan checks the fuse box, […]
#ThrowbackThursday #Horroctober edition: Alan Wake – week 2
It seems to me that these posts are going to be on the lengthy side. I think there’s something like 6 episodes in the game, so doing two episodes per weekly update will take me nicely to the end of the month, but typing them up is going to be a mammoth task. I was […]
#ThrowbackThursday #Horroctober edition: Alan Wake – Week 1
Those who have been reading Bar Harukiya since last year may recall that I used to mix things up with #ThrowbackThursday, covering a “Retro Club” game alongside my Final Fantasy IX playthrough, you may even recall I did things a little differently last October as I spent that month playing Gregory Horror Show, you know, […]
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
“Walking Simulators” are ten a penny now, a lot of developers who want to provide a narrative-heavy game that has some major emotional impact on the player use the genre to tell their story. This involves tasking the player with walking around or through a location and interacting with clues to keep said story ticking […]
#ThrowbackThursday Final Fantasy IX playthrough part 44
We’re supposed to go to the Iifa Tree, but I really want to try some of the sidequests out, I’ve got the Mognet Central stuff, Stellazio Coins and Chocobo Forest that I think I should still be able to do. I head for Lindblum first and find Sagittarius, I’m not sure if it was there […]
Art of Rally
You wait around for ages, waiting for a non-serious or sim-lite racing game, and suddenly three come along at once. A couple of weeks back I covered Hotshot Racing, I’m yet to get an opportunity to try Inertial Drift but now we’ve also got Art of Rally, which, like Hotshot Racing, aims to take the […]
Justify your credentials
In the opening column for Wireframe #42 (which is an excellent magazine that you should read if you don’t already, you can download it for free or subscribe to having a print copy delivered), James Moran talks about how a lot of games have RPG mechanics in them now, and how that’s not his thing. […]