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Silent Hill F Has One of Horror's Most Gnarly And Profound Transformations

Silent Hill F Has One of Horror's Most Gnarly And Profound Transformations https://ift.tt/TrkGXL0 What do you think of when you think of a woman in pain? There are no tidy universalisms here, but for many of us, even most of us, pain is private and domestic. You could think of a mother shouldering burdens alone while her husband is at work. The father in the waiting room while the mother screams with strangers. A woman going to the doctor about an ache, only for him to tell her to lose weight and deny the problem is even happening. All these things are simple clichés--tropes stolen from life and television. When Silent Hill f conjures a woman's private pain, it is with cutting specificity. In one of the most grisly moments of body horror in video games this year (or ever, really), protagonist Hinako turns into an emblem of her own sorrow, her own compliance, her own screaming rage. Spoilers follow. Continue Reading at GameSpot
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Save On The Classic Novel That Inspired Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

Save On The Classic Novel That Inspired Death Stranding 2: On The Beach https://ift.tt/b7aEeJ3

Hideo Kojima's long-anticipated sequel to Death Stranding received its full title at Wednesday's State of Play showcase--you'll probably want to check out this bonkers new trailer--and it's a dual reference to a place in the universe of the game and also to a classic novel about the end of the world: Nevil Shute's On the Beach. Before your fellow Kojima fans buy up all the copies, you can save a few bucks on the paperback edition of the book at Amazon.

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

$13.39 (was $18)

On the Beach focuses on folks in Australia in the wake of a global nuclear war, with the rest of human civilization seemingly wiped from existence. And they attempt to go about their lives as best they can while they wait for the nuclear fallout to eventually arrive and kill them. It's not hard to see the similarities with the premise of Death Stranding, which follows a sort of spiritual apocalypse and carries a similarly dour overall mood.

Published in 1957, On the Beach is the sort of literary classic that's easy to love--the premise is compelling, the characters interesting, and the length is short enough that you can read the whole thing in an afternoon. Certainly it's a much less time-consuming experience than Death Stranding 2 will be.

But if you prefer screen versions of things, there's also an old 1957 movie version of On the Beach starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Fred Astaire--that's a stacked cast. The film has sorta been lost to time in the USA, but you can import the Korean release (with English audio) of the DVD for a decent price here.

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