What’s with the Assassin’s Creed stuff?
If you follow me on Facebook, then you’ll know that I have been very excited about the Assassin’s Creed franchise lately. Why? Because this is what I do!
Into the Woods
Living in a fairytale seems all right – at least for all those characters working toward their happy ending. Only it doesn’t stop there, and suddenly they’re forced to face reality…
Evil, evil everywhere!
I’m still alive! The reason for this bit of radio silence was that apart from (and during – no rest for the wicked) an amazing vacation in Italy, I’ve been swamped with various projects for university. Spoilers: it’s about villains. Surprise!
Moral Selectivity in Victims?
There’s always some drama about violence in film, violence in games, violence everywhere. And yes, in some cases we do seem to have been numbed to seeing violence on-screen; it’s not that big a deal anymore. But what always gains a universal reaction of horror and disgust is violence directed against animals – the cuter,…
What happened to The Wolf Among Us? [Spoilers]
Fairytale characters that have turned (mostly) human; strange murders keeping the Fabletown population in fear; and a lone wolf struggling to redeem himself: the potential of The Wolf Among Us is amazing.
Maleficent
Stunningly beautiful, beautifully evil and a thorn in everyone’s side; that’s Maleficent – but as the re-envisioning of the well-known fairytale shows, there might be more to this villainess than meets the eye…
Spotlight on: Captain Hammer
I know I promised this a week ago already, but times are very busy, so I am only going to drop a few lines about another villain now – the last in the Imperial March series (well, rather post-Imperial March), but I am enjoying these posts so much that I might just do it a monthly thing – one…
Spotlight on: The Cave*
I figured it’d be appropriate, too, to mention villains that I haven’t actually studied academically – and therefore, due to time issues and what not, this will only be a villain snippet, but it’s a good way to introduce an interesting character anyway: The Cave is a puzzle-platform-adventure game and was released in 2013 for Xbox360, PS3,…
Spotlight on: The Joker*
As far as villains go, the Joker is probably amongst my favourite, although of course I cannot really pick ‘favourites’ in that area as I am fascinated by almost all villains, provided they do not fall in my ‘repulsive’ spectrum. (And ironically, I wrote a thesis about those as well. Go figure.)
Spotlight on: Dr. Hannibal Lecter *
This wouldn’t be a month of villains if I did not start with a very significant one, one that sends shivers down your spine when you’re thinking of him: of course I’m talking about Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
