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FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: MAIDEN OF BLACK WATER
Many devoted PC-boyars have probably heard something about the Japanese horror series Fatal Frame (known in their homeland as Project Zero), which was once almost on an equal footing with Silent Hill. But they couldn’t try it in person. Only now, on the occasion of Halloween and the 20th anniversary of the series, at least some game from this franchise has reached the PC for the first time, namely the fifth Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. The original was released in 2015 exclusively on Wii U, so the current re-release visited all other key platforms for the first time. Continue reading
DYING LIGHT 2: STAY HUMAN
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human takes place 20 years after the first game. The protagonist is Aiden Caldwell, a wanderer who arrives in the last human city, Villedor, in search of his sister and immediately becomes involved in the confrontation of local gangs. Purely story quests are now much more intriguing than in the original. Aiden’s sister was one of the children experimented on by Dying Light scientists, and unraveling their research is set to become one of the central themes of the sequel and the link between Dying Light 1 and 2. Continue reading
SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI V
In Shin Megami Tensei V, things move fast. Here we are sitting in a lesson in a Japanese school, and after a few minutes we find ourselves in an alternative, destroyed version of Tokyo and fight demons. It sounds like something from Persona 5, but fans of the series for such comparisons can call an unkind word, because Persona is a spin-off of the SMT series. And no matter how successful the fifth “Persona” was, the developers did not change much Shin Megami Tensei V to please the army of newly minted fans. Continue reading
