What are liminal spaces and why do we fear them? We play the game “NaissanceE” to explore the survival of haunting architectures and how “The Backrooms” became such an iconic setting. If you like these and other blog posts and want them to continue, please consider donating via https://ko-fi.com/henriquelage…

We start another month of Halloween with another Castlevania game, already a tradition in the channel. …

In this new video, we will analyze how “Disco Elysium” reinvents the CRPG genre, how it uses role-playing games as a tool to reflect on our identity, how our identity relates to our ideology and the role of labor exploitation in a capitalist world. Controversies! Quotes to intellectuals! …

I promised it three years ago and here it is: an analysis of the video game adaptations of the absurd humor manga and anime series “Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo” and the different genres it adopts to see to what extent the mechanics of a game determine the tone with which we approach it. If you like these and other blog posts and want them to continue, please consider donating via https://ko-fi.com/henriquelage or contributing as a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/henriquelage where you can get early access to the texts and vote for upcoming posts. Check out also my Youtube channel (with English subtitles).

You choose your alignment, your class, the items you carry and embark on a dark fantasy adventure full of terrifying creatures, legendary weapons and a heavy melancholy… in a game that doesn’t exist. We analyze Plastiboo’s book “Vermis” and its role as a hypertext of an imaginary video game, relating it to dungeon crawlers and their modern derivatives as well as other trends in dark fantasy. If you like these and other blog posts and want them to continue, please consider donating via https://ko-fi.com/henriquelage or contributing as a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/henriquelage where you can get early access to the texts and vote for upcoming posts. Chek out also my Youtube channel (with English subtitles).

Everyone knows the legend: new “Dragon Quest” games are released on Saturdays to avoid collapsing the country’s productivity since “Dragon Quest III” came out, but… And why is this particular installment the most revered of the saga? If you like these and other blog posts and want them to continue, please consider donating via https://ko-fi.com/henriquelage or contributing as a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/henriquelage where you can get early access to the texts and vote for upcoming posts. Chek out also my Youtube channel (with English subtitles).

A series of novels, a cursed movie and a forgotten video game. This is a story about how the Disney license fell into the hands of a future director of erotic video games and how he created a game that incited you to disobey the narrative he was adapting. If you like these and other blog posts and want them to continue, please consider donating via https://ko-fi.com/henriquelage or contributing as a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/henriquelage where you can get early access to the texts and vote for upcoming posts. Chek out also my Youtube channel (with English subtitles).

The release of “HROT” serves as an excuse to talk about ‘boomer shooters’. Is it simply a wave of nostalgia or a design philosophy? What are the characteristics by which we can name genres in video games? And why is there a horse with a gas mask here? If you like these and other blog posts and want them to continue, please consider donating via https://ko-fi.com/henriquelage or contributing as a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/henriquelage where you can get early access to the texts and vote for upcoming posts. Chek out also my Youtube channel (with English subtitles).

The game that consolidated the saga did so through greater interactivity with the environment, making it, for many years, one of the best games in history. …