Music/Game Reviews from TholurosDetectiveAgency

  Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved Contains light spoilers ! I do not usually engage with visual novels although perhaps I should more. Detective Instinct: Farewell My Beloved is an indie visual novel game developed and published by Armonica LLC. I saw the visuals on Twitter/X and Reddit and it immediately caught my eye. After the deafening fog of Silent Hill 3, I decided to play a light-hearted game and I am glad I did. Story/Gameplay The game opens with a man in an autumn-yellow suit walking down the autumn-colored street. The game doesn’t wait for the punch line, and we see that the sad-looking man gets thrown off a window at a hotel, with a wound in his abdomen and he lies in the gutter, dead. Next, we hear door knocks and a young man is sleeping in his hotel room. It’s the police! We immediately help the teenager in his pajamas get up and open the door to a cop who is mad and anxious to capture us in connection with the murder of that man we saw earlier. It turns...

  Silent Hill 3 Spoilers a plenty! Such a delight to go back to the horrors of Silent Hill 3 after playing Silent Hill f which I had enjoyed very much. I had to take a break from the pretentious arguments, on both sides of the aisle, revolving around the Clair Obscur game… I have known all the Silent Hill games to a degree, but I have not played all of them myself. Silent Hill 3 is, overall, a fine addition to the series, and provides a closure to Harry Mason’s adventure that started in the very first game. I had a great time with it, although I think the game is rather short. SH3 does not have the same emotional heft as SH2 and perhaps given how gruesome and tragic SH2’s story was, SH3 decided to add some comic relief and turn its gaze to Silent Hill’s famous underground occult and its alluring mystery once more. Story The Lakeside Amusement Park by the Toluca Lake of Silent Hill cuts the ribbon and introduces us to a confused teenager, Heather Mason, wearing a white jacket with a...