Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The First Haruki Murakami Inspired Videogame?
I've seen trailers for this game by Atlus titled Catherine surfacing about every 1/3 of a year. I just watched this trailer:
Now that I am a bit more accustomed to the overall weirdness of it, the Haruki Murakami influences are all too obvious. It's Japanese first of all... I mean, shit all those wacky Japanese people think alike!
But in all seriousness, it's about a man living a solitary existence who meets a mysterious woman and gets taken into a netherworld full of wild surrealism, and hard-boiled detective tropes. A world where he is pulled into meeting outlandish characters, and a lot of strange sex. The biggest giveaway, however, are the sheep men, taken right out of A Wild Sheep Chase, and Dance, Dance, Dance.
Besides being heavily influenced by the man I can only dream to be as great of a writer as, it just looks fun, and unique. It's not about grizzled soldiers carrying guns. It's not about wizards and knights. It's something really different, and I dig that. I look forward to it if and when it gets a North American release.
Monday, February 07, 2011
A Taste of The Dark Fruits of My Labour
I am aware that I have essentially been all talk on this site. For the time that Gallowmere has been around, I have not shared any of my work. Today, I have decided to find a part of [The Obscure Opus] which wound up on the cutting room floor back during the 19th century, and feed it to an auditizer. When voices were needed, it defiled the throats of [Mike P] to supply speech for Mr. Morton (the name has been changed from the character he was supposed to be in the book), and from yours truly as the mad doctor.
You can listen to it: HERE
I cannot be responsible for the bleeding from the ears this may cause.
Use your ears without fear.
And I will use my eyes when I...
See everyone in hell!
