welcome to the garden of cool
a collection of random stuff that i recc checking out
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Metaphor Refantazio
the king is assassinated. horrifying powerful monsters terrorize in the land. a mad dash for the throne begins. you and your fairy companion decide to join the race in the name of your best friend the prince. he's been in a coma for ten years, but you think he wasn't racist? a voice in the sky grants you and your friends ancient magic to pursue this goal.
ever heard of persona? forget about it. this is made by the same people, who essentially recreated and refined its systems, serving it to you in a premium high fantasy rpg. its long as hell. the enemy designs are mainly based on Hieronymus Bosch paintings. the battle theme features a buddhist monk chanting in esperanto. it sounds like yodeling. character designs based on seventies high fashion. its peak.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
New England, current year plus one. after weeks of riots, violent military opression, every apocalyptic scenario ever considered all happened at once: zombies, alien invasion, eldritch beings. the fabric of reality is tearing itself apart. you come to your senses a few weeks into it all. the age of humanity is over. survive!
a brutal roguelike survival simulator, forked from the original Cataclysm. the simple graphics hide unfathomable complexity. starts of hard, never stops getting harder. the enemies evolve with you, the weather becomes more severe, the rot spreads further. best in genre thanks to eleven years of open source development.
Long Season
who doesn't love a thirty-five minute long single track album. bright, breezy, cathartic. springcore, but works in any season. one of my favorites.
Mount Eerie
Phil Elverum's early band, the album that later became the name of his new project. similar nature vibes to Long Season, polar opposite on mood. themed around death. let the solar wind blow over you.
OutRun 2006
the light turns green. the engine you've been reving starts putting power down the pavement.
a few seconds pass and everything gets squished on the screen as speed really kicks in.
you have a passenger. I wanna go far away
she says. boy, me too.
take this game apart and its pure nonsense. play it yourself and it all makes sense. this is SEGA at their finest.
3+5
latest album from the best noise rock band who ever existed. they still got incredible energy. crushing it for over thirty years and counting.
10,000 gecs
i used to dismiss these guys for a really long time as "zoomer music". turns out they are basically my exact age. fellow millenials, there is no excuse. their second album is pretty easy to get into, banger after banger.
the desert where we live
the next installment in a hungarian video/music guy's years long art project. he documents the effects of climate change in the area he lives. what you are seeing are the remnants of what was the most fertile soil in hungary ten years ago. a ten minute meditation of anxiety.
the videos are meant to be silent films, with live music played by the guy and his collaborators. for the youtube version, he provides an ambient soundtrack.
