My first attempt to conquer the Nintendo Gamecube’s Metroid Prime was around Christmas in 2002. The isolated horror atmosphere presented to the player in the game’s opening moments stole my seven-year-old attention span. Bounty hunter Samus Aran arrives on the Orpheon, a massive abandoned spaceship, to answer a distress signal sent out by the SpaceContinue reading “Metroid Prime: Atmospheric Horror and Explorative Storytelling”
Category Archives: 2002
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy
It’s a testament to Willem Dafoe’s terrific performance as Spider-Man‘s Green Goblin that I was too afraid to watch the 2002 film as a child. My dad wasted money on tickets to see it in the theater; I started crying the moment we entered and heard Dafoe’s booming cackle. Once the movie saw a homeContinue reading “Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy”
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