Rose Archer my beloved

this isnt projection or anything, weirdly enough (at least i dont think it is... i hope its not). its just... something i really like seeing in fiction, even if it means re-writing a few villains here and there to play to my weird benevolent fantasies. ugh, sue me.

i want rose archer to keep her promise to aubrey in close to the sun, to find him in his weird little electrical security booth hidey hole and collapse because shes exhausted and traumatised and (because hes good here, he has to be good here for this to work) he holds her and calls her rosey and tells her she is perfect and brilliant and kept her promises.

i want the narrator to comfort a weeping stanley with the gentleness of a god who loved their creations too much. "you are my perfect vessel, you do so well for me. all of the endings are scripted, you could never do anything incorrectly, its all planned from the beginning and you perform it all beautifully, each and every time."

Close to the Sun – Blast Review

Developer: Storm in a Teacup Rrp: £15.99 (Gog.com, Humblebundle, Steam and Epic)

This is one of those games that I would call 'Mid tier' or 'AA' too big and flashy to be considered an indie game but not polished enough to come under the banner of ' triple A' (although in recent years there have been so many terribly made and unpolished triple A games that I may have to reconsider the way I classify those games). It's a bit of a shame really as there is some potential buried inside the game but its just so marred with terrible design choices and to be honest some very dull gameplay.

You play as Rose Archer, an investigative reporter who has been invited to board a ship called the Helios. This ship was built by Nikola Tesla and is a place where scientists can go to research and create without the constraints of government interference. But when Rose arrives she finds that the ship is in terrible shape and something terrible has occurred. If this sounds familiar then you've likely played, have watched gameplay of or have heard of Bioshock. Sadly the similarities don't end there, the ship has a art deco design to it, making it very reminiscent of Bioshock's Rapture and as you play Nikola Tesla will speak to you in a manner similar to Andrew Ryan.

All of this wouldn't be so bad in itself. But the games controls are stiff, I used a mouse and keyboard and even when I cranked the in game settings for the mouse to maximum turning still felt sluggish. Your character can't jump worth a damn and when she does jump she often stops moving for a second which just feels odd.