Hippo Nashua
January 5, 2006

Games: Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
By Glenn Given

Author, art critic and proto-founder of the English Aesthetic Movement in art, Walter Pater said, “All art aspires to be music.” Well I’d say that all Castlevania games aspire to be Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the original Playstation ...

Games: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
By Glenn Given

H.P. Lovecraft was not a terribly good writer. Rather than communicate the indescribable, mind shattering, terrifying sanity-breaking form that one of his Cthulhoid horrors appears as, he will simply say,

“From the darkness an indescribable, mind shattering, terrifying sanity breaking horror emerged.”

Rule of thumb Lovecraft, if you use the phrase “indescribably horrible” in a description, writing probably isn’t the career for you.

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