Review
The Music Machine excels in silence
A surreal, Eraserhead-like examination of guilt and terror.
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The striking darkness and illusory light of White Night
A good mashup, but not quite a great one.
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This week’s Playlist pick: White Night
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. WHITE NIGHT (LINUX, MAC, PC, PLAYSTATION 4, XBOX ONE) BY OSOME STUDIO Chiaroscuro has been handed down from the drawn arts, to cinema and photography, and is now making headway in videogames. In White Night, it is made interactive, as the darkness is as much a sign of danger for you to carve up with the safety of light, as it is a stylistic nod to film noir. As you creep through its chilling mansion, draped in starkness, you’ll find ghosts of the past blocking your way. Their grief is scattered like…
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Face darkness in the jazz-noir horror of White Night right now
“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.” – J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit What do you imagine waiting for you, out there in the dark? Perhaps an inexplicable shadow, or a ghostly face. Or maybe clammy, cold, dead hands—or a hulking mutant-monster. Whatever you imagine coming out of the darkness, it’s exactly that: your imagination. According to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, the things we fear in the dark…