The Sublime in Video Games
SPOILER ALERT You may recognize yourself in these words, but I find that the sense of melancholy we feel when we feel tiny is both distressing, you’ll agree, and yet comforting… An…
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Emptiness and nothingness
“Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.” – Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley The concept of space is intrinsically…
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Folk horror through the world | Part. III
We’re back for the third installment of this series of articles dedicated to folklore around the world, with a particular focus on folk horror. You can find parts one and two on…
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Folk horror through the world | Part. II
Two years ago, on Point’n’Think, we published an article that took you on a journey around the world… through the lens of folk horror. Many horror games draw on historical events or…
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Loneliness in video games : contemplation, understanding, and the search for self
Solitude. A state—whether chosen or imposed—in which silence can act as a catalyst for conflicting, sometimes contradictory emotions. Whether redemptive, destructive, or liberating, it can lead us toward contemplation, introspection, and creativity,…
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2, a Fragment of Eternity
The world of video games is an ocean of creators, among whom some are haunted by a vision too vast for the frameworks imposed upon them. Tetsuya Takahashi belongs to this lineage…
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Paraludology Manifesto | For a renewal of discourse on video games
Critical critique of video game critics Most of the time, video game critics do not concern video games. Their object is not the game, but the merchandise we play with. Too many…
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Museums of the Non-Existent: From Dune to MyHouse.wad
We no longer consume works: we inhabit gaps. Cancelled projects, fragments, hoaxes, mod-labyrinths, and fake books shift the center of gravity of the experience: there is no longer an object to finish,…
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Game of Faune : How does Bug Fables transform a tiny bit of garden into a credible world?
When you were young, did you imagine stories about the insects you observed? Personally, I loved watching them, especially bees. And even though I still love observing them, I no longer attribute…
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The golden age of survival horror: myth or reality? (Part 2)
If you haven’t yet read part 1 of this report, I strongly encourage you to do so in order to better understand what follows. Here we are again on our journey through…
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