Splatterpunk

We reveled in the fact that we could disgust people.

In many ways, I think that the games of the 90s have followed the same kind of transgressive progression as the Splatterpunks.

Because the Splatterpunks in the 70s and 80s were responding to kind of the ghosts and the goblins of the 50s and 60s and 70s.

In that time...

Ghosts just didn't mean shit.

There you go.

It's like Splatterpunk without the splatter.

yeah it's a

different kind of splatter yeah splatter from other parts

So it gives you this sort of nostalgic feel coming of age, you know, like demonic horror, um, Which, again, there are just like super fucking creepy parts throughout.

And the ending just it goes so hard that I like texted him after reading it was like, dude, do you write Splatterpunk? Because, damn, like it just went balls to the fucking wall.

So I think this book is a ton of fun.

If you are the type of person that likes to watch horror movies that aren't like just straight scares, but have like a more of like a I don't know.

That's why I bought it.

Look at that.

Dude, every Splatterpunk book has a fucking banger cover art.

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So it's like, I don't think it's a total home run, but I still am always rooting for A, anything Capcom, anything very Japanese.

This is Splatterpunk by definition.

But the weird thing is the asking price is $50, which for a roguelike game is like, oh no, if this was $25, oh my god, it'd be incredible.

But uh yeah it's like in this in-between thing where like it's good i don't think it's great and the asking price is very steep so it's like oh it's hard to like give this the full stamp of approval um it's easy enough and i like grinding the achievements and i can see myself going back and cleaning up but also launching at this period there's 6 000 other games calling my attention yeah i play a lot of this i'm like oh fuck i kind of want to play control or like i'd like i my i keep getting called to other like willow lewis and like wanting to bounce off it.

So if you're somebody that's, like, worried, like, I think if you... want something that's, like, horror, but you're not into that type of horror, like, this would be absolutely perfect for you.

I know, I do feel like Splatterpunk has really taken the forefront of the horror genre.

and it's hard because like this is like there is a haunting there is ghosts

yes within this um i think it's it's not like a the thing is it's not traditional horror like i feel like marketing this as a horror because like i know on goodreads like the number one genre is horror i think that leads a lot of people to be disappointed if they're expecting like a horror horror and it's really not like i'd say it's like spooky but it's not like horror

I am at the tippy, tippy top.

Splatterpunk is another genre I haven't read a lot of.

I've written a couple of Splatterpunk, at least one Splatterpunk story.

I've never really, like, Other than short stories, I don't think I've read.

Yeah, I had that River Man book or whatever that Tim recommended.