#swery

❝...Say Zach, do you remember the first bar we ever went into? Fun times, wouldn’t you say Zach? That's right. It wasn’t like any of the old movies we saw back then. Such as 1994’s indie cult film, Pulp fiction, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Boy did that Uma Therman sure know how to dance… Did you know the set location was actually a closed down bowling alley? Still, It was quite the culture shock for us to truly experience the real deal. Though you could never handle your alcohol, could you Zach? For being in a small town such as Greenvale, The Galaxy of Terror has a surprisingly lively nightlife atmosphere. Great place, though they don't serve coffee. I think it could even rival that of bars in other bigger Washington cities, don’t you think Zach?❞

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My piece for Bonus Footage @deadlypremonitionzine for Deadly Premonition's 15th year anniversary! This game has that small town campy charm while simultaneously being one of the most haunting horror concepts that it made a very strong impression on me the first time I came across it about eight years ago.

Mostly this piece was inspired by the thought of these two sisters getting the happy ending that was denied for them, in an alternative universe kind of way. With Carol still performing her heart out on stage, and Thomas able to join in by accompanying her on the piano.

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Prints and more!

Where you can find the zine!

bonus symbolism under the cut;

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ZACH - IT'S HERE!

Happy Deadly Premonitiversary to everyone!

Bonus Footage, the 40-page, fifteen year anniversary fanzine, is now up to read for free on itch.io. With art, writing, and messages from fans, it's the perfect tribute to a game we love.

Wow guys... Only took me 2 years to get the courage to finish the sketch? Nah it couldn't have been that long... Anyways, I finished it! Only took me 30 hours...

Here's what It looks like without the filters and such!

And Here's some closeups!

Girlfriends.

No.1 Fan and his Idol.

Kate and brian. (And tikitaka...)

polycule.

Rei And Domori.

Some of them have different hairstyles, I thought it'd be realistic... the ones that are noticeable are Doshi and Kates...

Also LFIJEKKQLOKDKWKKDK shes so cute.... oh and we can mod now ig!! Your hugo yumeship can be real!!

I don't think The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories gets enough credit for how much it goes out of its way to depict how valid trans identities are regardless of presentation

During the game proper you are playing as a dream idealized version of JJ who took some of her traits from Emily (note their eyes are the same color) and has a feminine voice provided by a cis woman VA

And in the NG+ you can play as JJ as she is in reality with her developmental voice (voiced by a cis male VA albeit softly spoken) and with her short hair. You can chose to switch out JJ's wig, outfits and which version of her voice you use and some of the photos on JJ's phone will display how she is in reality

And the thing is for 100%ing the game your reward is to see post-game Emily and JJ go clothes shopping and find the outfit she wears in the dream

But like-- the game makes sure the player understands that voice, clothing and wig do not change JJ

She's the same woman in any depiction and that is such an empathetic way of telegraphing to the audience that trans women are women and they do not owe the world or themselves passing in any form to be recognized as such

For a Japanese video game that's pretty dang amazing and there's a big reason that despite some flaws (the handling of topics of suicide and conversion therapy are not great) it is one of our favorite bits of trans media

Gravity Falls

Twin Peaks

Deadly Premonition

Welcome to Night Vale

all of these have just the right doses of mystery and comedy. twin peaks is definitely a big inspiration for all the others, and it is the coolest one in my opinion, though i love them all.

Not long ago I was testing games on my Linux PC and decided to play a session of Toejam & Earl: Back in the Groove. I have enjoyed this game since the Sega Genesis era, especially playing it among friends (it’s a really awesome Multiplayer Roguelike, and everyone should try it).

Anyway, while playing the game I decided to boot the Credits to listen to the game’s music, because really that is a highlight of this game.

But you’ll never believe what secret I ran across!

Lo and Behold, I spotted Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro’s name in the game’s credits. I do believe he voices the Sushi Stand guy!

Swery, in case you didn’t know had a history with SNK, being a key developer for The Last Blade and the Last Blade 2 fighting games, he also developed the horror platform indie game The Missing with ARC System Works as his publisher.

It was thanks to Swery that we debunked a certain myth!