Ahh! Save me!
Mar. 12th, 2007 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sureiOne of my freshmen got Dead Rising. And I got interested and curious and wanted to know the story.
So I scared up the cutscenes, and now I know I'll have nightmares if I go to sleep before I stop flashbacking to them.
I mean, seriously? Adam the Clown? That brand of insanity is scary to begin with, someone who's truly unhinged and about to cut you up simply because you're there. But then they showed what happened to him after he gets beaten.
Okay, so this dude has got a pair of chain-saws that are permanently revved, or something, because he's been juggling with them. And he laughs in this high-pitched I-can't-stop giggle, over the top pantomime. But when you beat him, he drops the saws. And then falls on them. And because he's bulky, they're cutting him open from the underneath, and he doesn't stop laughing, and the camera doesn't turn away, until he finally dies. Very, very bloodily.
Then there's kinda also the fact that even the best ending you can get, the one you've been working for the entire time, is one where everybody he trusted was zombified and the guy who was supposed to be the big bad guy died pathetically, and there's just him and the girl, right? And they're going to escape in a helicopter. Except that the pilot couldn't resist watching first to see if he was alright, and got himself bitten and died and the 'copter crashed, so now they're stuck, with a disease and bugs transmitting the zombie-stuff, and a bunch of zombified SWATs... So then you go into overtime, and the final cutscene for that is one where he's stuck on one tank, and the girl's on the side of another, that was overturned, and is going to be tossed again by the sheer number of zombies around it, and he screams and they black out... and then say that he made it out. With the implication that she didn't.
And the implication that it still isn't over.
I've gotta say, the plot is intense. And violent, and bloody, and despairing. It's perfect horror.
Which is why I can't let myself sleep just yet. Hopefully this rant will have cleared some of it out, and I'm listening to cheerful oldies, and reading other things to distract me. But. Flashbacks.
That's it. No more of this. Give me some Cthulhu. Yes, Cthulhu is my protective deity. There's something so empowering about him, though he, you know, kinda drives people to death by insanity through his mere presence alone.
So I scared up the cutscenes, and now I know I'll have nightmares if I go to sleep before I stop flashbacking to them.
I mean, seriously? Adam the Clown? That brand of insanity is scary to begin with, someone who's truly unhinged and about to cut you up simply because you're there. But then they showed what happened to him after he gets beaten.
Okay, so this dude has got a pair of chain-saws that are permanently revved, or something, because he's been juggling with them. And he laughs in this high-pitched I-can't-stop giggle, over the top pantomime. But when you beat him, he drops the saws. And then falls on them. And because he's bulky, they're cutting him open from the underneath, and he doesn't stop laughing, and the camera doesn't turn away, until he finally dies. Very, very bloodily.
Then there's kinda also the fact that even the best ending you can get, the one you've been working for the entire time, is one where everybody he trusted was zombified and the guy who was supposed to be the big bad guy died pathetically, and there's just him and the girl, right? And they're going to escape in a helicopter. Except that the pilot couldn't resist watching first to see if he was alright, and got himself bitten and died and the 'copter crashed, so now they're stuck, with a disease and bugs transmitting the zombie-stuff, and a bunch of zombified SWATs... So then you go into overtime, and the final cutscene for that is one where he's stuck on one tank, and the girl's on the side of another, that was overturned, and is going to be tossed again by the sheer number of zombies around it, and he screams and they black out... and then say that he made it out. With the implication that she didn't.
And the implication that it still isn't over.
I've gotta say, the plot is intense. And violent, and bloody, and despairing. It's perfect horror.
Which is why I can't let myself sleep just yet. Hopefully this rant will have cleared some of it out, and I'm listening to cheerful oldies, and reading other things to distract me. But. Flashbacks.
That's it. No more of this. Give me some Cthulhu. Yes, Cthulhu is my protective deity. There's something so empowering about him, though he, you know, kinda drives people to death by insanity through his mere presence alone.