Friday, October 20, 2023

Crymachina | PS5 Review

The lightly true-to-life sci-fi dystopian action RPG known as, "Crymachina" perfectly reflects our current human plight, and humanity's futile efforts towards transcending the limitations of itself through the 4th industrial revolution. This latest reflection of where society is headed, by the developers in leagues with NISA, comes with a bleak yet somewhat prophetic outlook regarding the last remnant of humanity, and it's pursuit of survival beyond self-inflicted extinction. Humanity's ultimate goal, in this case as in our own, being that of potentially resurrecting the population of Earth in a future where their newly produced cybernetic bodies are host to their human souls or harvested personal data. 

Monday, October 16, 2023

The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature | PS5

The story of Frankenstein is a twofold moral lesson about what it is to be the creator of life and what it is to live as a creation. On one side we have the creator creating through questionable means a mimicry of a man who he does not see as his ideal human counterpart when all things are said and done. A failed attempt at replicating the very process with which he too was created. 

On the flipside of the same creationist conundrum the created creature of a man struggles with his understanding of the world he's been birthed into. Wondering why his own creator would look at him with such disgust and why humanity, in general, would see him as a monster instead of one of their own. Fleeing the world he was born to fit into Frankenstein's creature seeks to find an understanding of it's own existence while trying to ward off hostility it does not understand. Thus is Mary Shelley's contribution to literature ...

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Hero Survival | PS5

SometimesYou is one of the few publishers with onboard developers who truly think outside of the box. Each game, no matter how inline with gaming genres it may or may not be, always harbors a deeper meaning. These games with a moral message not only offer fun in spades, but also get those who would see the obvious ties to real life to reflect on our current reality, be it societal, political, or religious in nature.

With 'Hero Survival', an auto-battler with a hero twist, we find Jake (PWNMASTER69) summoned by the timemaster himself to prove his worth against insurmountable odds alongside famed personalities like Harrison Ford, John Rambo, Honest Abe, and Bram Stoker. Jake, and his famous heroic counterparts must live up to their persona or look like a fool in attempting to do so. Therein lies the game's deeper meaning ...

QUOTE: A Plague of Locusts

 "The one reason immigration will not work for anyone is that a country's resources are finite. No matter how you distribute those resources there will eventually be nothing for anyone. Not even those the resources were redistributed to.