Recent content by Secretarial-Humbug

First off, minor SPOILERS within for the girls... but then, how much there is to 'spoil' from a fan-service harem comedy manga/anime is kinda up for debate. As one who legitimately finds Monmus more funny than sexy (yeah, I don't know what's wrong with me...

I find this idea interesting because, from my standpoint, I was an avid reader in younger times. I ate up books at a pretty solid rate, but I found that since Uni, wherein I HAD to read rather than being given a choice (humanities degree and all that jazz), my perspective on books has kinda...

Once again from the bowels of the interverse, I call to you, denizens of the Escapist. With a Halloween-themed slew of topics potentially round the alley corner, I have a challenge for you. The scenario? The creators of your favorite videogame franchise have given you, YOU, the...

A safe augmentation upon my brain, so that I could access 100% of its capacity, thus positively affecting the rest of my body. Barring that, augment my voice so that I could impersonate any accent or person with relative ease. Crazy option: a skeleton which functions in the same way as...

Johnny- you make a good point about the aspects of limitation and or risk in both the creator and the game, which I agree is itself as a way of helping the horror. Plus you're right, it does look more like Scarlett now that I look at it again Glongpre- that's a legitimately interesting topic...

Greetings fellow denizens of the Escapist, with Halloween fast approaching, it seems apt to discuss the topic of survival horror games, and, more specifically, The Evil Within game being developed by Tango Gameworks, with Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami in the driving seat. Given...

Ah-ha, but WHICH Death are we talking about OP? For example, Granny Weatherwax vs Death at cards (from the Discworld book Maskerade) is an interesting twist upon this question of playing Death: "Death looked down at his cards, and then up into Granny's steady, blue-eyed gaze. Neither...

Oddly enough, I remember being opposed to Rugrats, mainly for its aesthetic. Looking back on it, I can appreciate that it wasn't a bad show as such, and brought up a few interesting ideas to think about: but for me back then, it just looked, well, ugly. Don't get me wrong, the hate has...