Here Be Monsters Same as It Ever Was: Narrative Fidelity and the Art of the Remake By Emma Kostopolus • January 10th, 2025 Silent Hill 2 Remake feels more like a retelling of a classic tale, almost a myth, than a remake of a singular media property.
Funeral Rites Daily Commute: An Examination of Arkos and The Forest Primordia By Emma Kostopolus • November 27th, 2024 John Kordosh wants his players to focus on the events unfolding around them, rather than counting metrics for meta-game functionality.
Here Be Monsters The Discomfort of “Hello Neighbor” in Contemporary America By Emma Kostopolus • November 7th, 2024 The people under the tightest scrutiny are already the most vulnerable – our queer, trans, and POC neighbors.
Here Be Monsters Spoopy, Not Spooky: The Intersections of Cozy Games and Horror By Emma Kostopolus • September 4th, 2024 While on the surface they’re fairly dissimilar, there’s pretty substantial evidence that the Venn Diagram of spooky vs. cozy game enjoyers has a large middle section.
Here Be Monsters HR is Having a Field Day: Still Wakes the Deep as the Lovecraftian Banal By Emma Kostopolus • August 7th, 2024 Still Wakes the Deep is essentially just being stuck in Hell with all your worst coworkers.
Here Be Monsters I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Terror of Tamagotchi By Emma Kostopolus • May 31st, 2024 This is not a cute piece of nerd nostalgia, but a brutal PsyOp designed to drive us to the brink of despair.
Here Be Monsters In Defense of the Jump Scare: A Manifesto By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2024 Jump scares function as a necessary pressure-release valve for the experience of watching horror, thus allowing the experience to be less unrelentingly tiring.
