September 23, 2011 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts Enslaved and My First Nightmare Mode Post So, about a two weeks ago I was asked my Nightmare Mode‘s Editor-in-Chief Patricia Hernandez to join. It was right after and mostly because of my Existential Critical Crisis post that I was asked in the first place. I was a bit taken back. Here I was debating my self worth, or rather I was a few weeks ago, (The amount of time it took to edit that 10-page monstrosity was long enough I was feeling much better by the time it posted.) and here was someone asking me to join the revamping of a site. | more
January 14, 2011 Eric Swain Game Essays, Recent Posts Enslaved: Odyssey to the West’s Thematic Failure *Spoilers for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Heavenly Sword, Bioshock and Braid* Ninja Theory is a studio I really want to like. I really do. They hold a philosophy towards creating games, AAA games at that, I would love to see more of. They create a work and let it stand for itself. There is no extra tie in, no comic book spin offs, and more notable, no sequels. Before modern Hollywood took over (thanks in part to Star Wars and Jaws) nothing needed a sequel. A work stood or failed on it's own merits and not as a part of a whole. | more
