Betrayer (English review)

I've finished playing Betrayer, a title I wanted to look into for a fair few years. My thanks to GOG.com for salvaging it from falling into obscurity, even offering it as freeware - and I've been fairly impressed.

While I think the game has certain flaws or that its elements don't always gel together in the most coherent, non-immersion-breaking manner, it's still one of the more original first person games of the past decade.

Dune: Part Two

Review of the second film adaptation of Herbert's book series Dune, directed by Denis Villeneuve and co-adapted with his team.

Seen at the cinema, during the premiere on the 29th of February 2024, at 7:00 in the evening.

 

Jeff VanderMeer - City of Saints and Madmen

A review of the short fiction collection (or fix-up novel) with the shared setting of the city of Ambergris and its surrounding world, City of Saints and Madmen, by Jeff Vandermeer. First published in 2001, with the definitive edition (reviewed here) published since 2004 and onward. City of Saints and Madmen was followed by the novels Shriek: An Afterword (2006) and Finch (2009). I read City of Saints and Madmen in its original English language edition, the Pan Macmillan edition you see in the cover image to the right.

The Shire and Bree-land: Anachronisms... or not ?

My look at whether the Shire and the Bree-land from the Third Age of Tolkien's Legendarium are 'more anachronistic' than other countries and lands in the Westlands of Middle-earth during the Third Age.

Warning: Some serious fantastical and historical nerd-ery ahead !