At night in my dreams, it’s always the same thing. The world drowns in fire around me. Like many things, this mostly has to do with the fact that I played too much R-Type as a kid. The unique vision of the apocalypse that these spaceship vs. 1 million guys games offered is unparalleled. Different…
TAIYOU, ROUND 2
We’re “bringing in the new year” this year with a second appearance at Arizona’s January Anime convention Taiyou Con. We’ve been before and always have the most swell time. As DEEP HELL dot com’s primary mission is to fly in the face of corporate capitalism, we enjoy these spaces as some of the rare places…
DRACULA’S CASTLE
while we pass on in just a few days into a new decade, my mind still reels from the past. there will likely be an article about why it’s so impossible to succintly sum up a decade like this one before the end of the year, but now, here we are. all we can think…
WHAT THE BEST OF 2019 SAY ABOUT YOU
THIS is it FOLKS. The end of the line. The last stop at the station. Anybody getting off in this decade? I AM! We did it last year. We’re doing it again this year. Nobody can tell us what to do but our own regrets about the past. I’d say BUCKLE UP but it’s actually…
ONCE AGAIN (november review)
The blurb on THE NINJA WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN Amazon page is “Significantly enhanced remake of one of the best Japanese side-scrolling beat-me-up games of all time!” This bit of hyperbole could be mistaken for a selling point, or, it could be the absolute truth. Looking at just the first few words and then turning the…
TOYS
hello. we’ve been kind of out of it since we got in a car crash on wednesday night. Deep-Hell is primarily not a blog and we like to think of ourselves as critics. That being said, please enjoy this piece of light reading. Part of the reason I still assemble Gundam models (known as Gunpla…
UNLUCKY SKIN
One of my brother’s knees is six shards of bone held together by wire. The rest of him doesn’t fair much better, and not purely because of anything he was born with. A life of retail and wage-labor jobs, of skateboarding and heavy drinking will do that to you. In my own way, my own…
IT’S ALL COPS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Hear me out here: It’s 2019 and neither of us like cops. Astral Chain is a Cop Game. It’s not just a Cop Game It’s The Cop Game. You play a police officer gifted a special ability to control Legions and you use those to engage in the world through well-enacted Action Game stuff. Roll…
CRITICAL CONSENSUS
I have not played Death Stranding. It has been years since I was given a review code for anything, and I sure as heck don’t want to make them part of my business model here. (That is a joke. If big developers are listening, give me your games for free.) I feel like I know…
BUY ONE GET ONE-‘st
The fantasy of sitting on a jeweled throne is one of complacency. To be cared for in all avenues of life, while still being able to give out an edict to the general public (that’s most of us) that everybody still has to listen to. While no man is king, there are certainly those that…