Interlinked Less Punk and More Funk By Phoenix Simms • May 5th, 2023 What would a character like Daisy Fitzroy have been capable of if her script in Bioshock Infinite were handled by an African American writer with a Steamfunk sensibility?
Interlinked Rolling Up By Phoenix Simms • April 6th, 2023 We Love Katamari and the series it’s a part of is about the alchemy of persistence at its core. You take what’s available to you and turn it into a star.
Interlinked What We Make From the Ruins By Phoenix Simms • March 8th, 2023 Phoenix chats with the lead game narrative designer of The Archipelago about writing a game that explores both the political and personal.
Interlinked The Triple Goddess Effect By Phoenix Simms • February 2nd, 2023 Like Hades protagonist Zagreus, Melinoë is also connected to an Orphic hymn, this time one that sings of her as a “saffron veil’d” nymph that inspires both night terrors and madness in people.
Interlinked Gremlin Girl Energy By Phoenix Simms • January 5th, 2023 Greta is both a problem and a potential solution to that problem, but when read under a more feminist-revisionist lens, she’s charmingly camp, she’s a 90s icon and she’s absolutely that bitch.
Interlinked The Prince of Hades Laughs with a Mouthful of Blood By Phoenix Simms • December 8th, 2022 Zagreus is definitely a liminal figure trapped in a purgatorial space – and this metaphor extends to the entire setting of Hades.
Interlinked Half-Humans and Half-Lives By Phoenix Simms • November 3rd, 2022 At the throbbing heart of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a fear of different beings mixing to create a monstrous one.