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Best video game water level?

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Okay, hear me out. Kingdom Hearts Atlantica. The swimming controls aren't the worst. You can lock onto an enemy and fight fine. You get a superswim that makes some level of sense. And in Kingdom Hearts 2 it's just a rhythm mini game instead.

If you could choose a game to live in, what would it be?

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What's your comfort game?

Okay, so I don't normally watch horror movies. I am a coward. A scaredy-cat. But I enjoy horror as a concept! I think horror has interesting stories and ideas and can make wonderful works of art, but normally I need some degree of separation from it. I need a reviewer giving me the run-down, or a let's player cracking jokes and mugging at the camera. BUT! I wanted to watch this for multiple reasons! 1) It is a fully independent movie. I have grown rather tired of the big studios recycling the same formulas over and over again. 2) It is a passion project of a creator that I enjoy! I think it's important to support that sort of passion (though his fan base is big enough, it's the principle of the thing). And 3) I've watched Markiplier play through several horror games. With him as the lead actor, I dunno, there's a sort of trust that I can watch the movie and be fine. Still went with my spouse and wound up clinging to their arm most of the time, but I probably won't have nightmares. XD

So as to my thoughts on the movie: It's good! I really liked it! Was definitely on edge at several moments, but I liked it a lot! It's the kinda horror film that just lets you sit with the lingering dread. Only you don't know what you're really dreading. There's a kinda mundanity in it. Which is both a comfort and yet not. Because you're just . . . Waiting. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Waiting for things to go wrong. And I think a lot of films don't understand the efficacy of waiting. Especially in horror. I've seen other reviews that have said that the first part is slow and boring, but I have to disagree. I think it's just the right pace to bring out the tension. And we get to watch as the main character also falls into this sense of familiarity. Mundanity. Sure he's stuck in a sub that is definitely below the pressure line it's supposed to be, and there's a looming sense of danger in that systems might fail, but that becomes part of the weight of the waiting. You get used to the threat. It feels familiar. To the point that when things start to ramp up as the plot takes hold of the narrative, you WISH to go back to the mundane. To the familiar. But you can't. There's a line that's been crossed and you can only choose how to find a way forward.

I really loved this movie! As I mentioned earlier, I'm not the biggest fan of experiencing horror. But I would go back and see this film again despite the knots in my stomach. Despite the need to cling to another person to reassure myself that I am not alone. That is the power of not only a passion project, but a story well told!