Raffles & Giveaways

@dakkokki
How do I like a post....XD
It’s synopsis’s like these that absolutely sell a piece of media to me LOL

@Linhardt
I'm just a pro at giving the best synopsise

Alright back on the rpg business, I'm here to talk about one that's NOT made with rpg maker but with Wolf rpg editor! It has a very different feel to it. It's called The Crooked Man and upon finding the link it's the first in a series of games?? LOL (excited to play those now)

Anyway, you play as a guy named David who just moved in to a new apartment, but he's having a really hard time adjusting due to a really rough situation that he's in. Strange things start happening (because of course they do) so he decides to investigate bc he's just Not Having Any of That. Turns out it's far worse than he imagined and is lead on a journey far and wide to unravel the mystery of what the HECK wrote on his bathroom mirror >:( And also walked around at night?? so not cool. Anyway yeah it's good the plot is nice and it's totally worth a try!
Here's the download and you can also support Uri by buying it on steam for a whopping 2.99

*scans list* No one's recommended Shiki? Man I usually don't like horror but this is a truly amazing anime, I gotta recommend Shiki (which is available to watch on crunchyroll here, only one season long and complete)

So Shiki starts out in a sleepy little boondocks Japanese town somewhere in the mountains, cut off from everywhere, nothing ever happens. Which is why the vampires pick it as their new buffet.

Not that they go telling everyone they're vampires, it's just this eccentric reclusive rich couple and their "sickly" daughter that move in, shortly after which and of course totally unrelated there's a shocking mysterious death... and another mysterious death... and another and oh wait the tragic death is up and walking around again, after dark, drawing friends off after them...

And the town doc who autopsied the tragic sudden deaths that are walking around again goes a little bit nuts because he knows they were dead and he's gonna solve this, no matter what cost to his sanity... or his morals... but he's only got so long to do it because more and more of the finite number of townspeople are "disappearing," reappearing almost like their old selves but only after dark, and drawing their friends and family and neighbors away after them...

It has great writing, excellent pacing, full of tension, and totally lives up to its premise. You can't be sure where the ending will go, who will win (and who will survive), but when it comes it's the only thing that could have happened, and will leave you satisfied and shouting at the screen. 10/10 should watch


whoops forgot to ping @daniellefaye

Since videogames are on the list, I figured boardgames count? So, as a sequel to my previous recommendation, I recommend Betrayal at the House on the Hill, sold by our future overlords, Amazon (All Hail). As much as I like it, this game has two important caveats, I think. One, the rules aren't easy to learn, so in the beginning the gameplay is kinda stilted. And two, its expeeeeeeensive. So I recommend renting it out, if possible.

So, in the game, the players (3-6) each choose a character and they begin the game stranded in a strange house that locks itself behind them. Each character has stats for things like speed and mental health etc so everyone is different.
This is fase one. In this fase, the characters explore the house. And I mean explore. Everytime you open a new door you draw a room "card" and place it as the new room, and you have two floors and a basement to build. Some rooms have hazards, other give items, or an event happens. And in some of them you find an Omen. When that happens, you roll a certain number of dice and add the rolls. If this number is lower than the total Omens in play, the Haunting begins.
Now, it's revealed that a character has betrayed the group and is now working alongside the House for some nefarious purpose. There is a chart that determines who is the betrayer and which cenario is being played. There is at least twenty (last one was were carnivorous plants for me!) The heroes and the betrayer have their own sets of objectives, and the cenarios are usually pretty fun, specially if your friends are the theatrical sort.

There's a movie that I was shown in my horror film class last week that would be cool to watch!! It's called "Suspiria". It's an Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento in 1977. He was inspired by Thomas de Quincey's "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow".

From Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow, he created a trilogy of films called "The Three Mothers", which includes: The Mother of Sighs, The Mother of Tears, and the Mother of Darkness.

Suspiria is about the Mother of Sighs. In Suspiria, a young girl from America aspires to be a ballerina and travels all the way to a prestigious dance academy in Germany. However, after many bizarre and horrifying incidents, she begins to think that the dance academy might be something more...

I personally love Suspiria because it's absolutely beautiful!! The director chose to add many lights and colors to make the movie stand out in its own, unique way. In fact, according to Argento himself, "every shot, every scene, is supposed to be a work of art". The music in the soundtrack is fantastic as well!!

@daniellefaye

New day, new recommendation, which is Garfield Gameboy'd (youtube video). It's only about 15 minutes long, a playthrough/sneak peek of the creepiest looking old-Gameboy-style game ever.

A game that doesn't actually exist, it's just the video, but man is it well done.