The Attic: The Static Speaks My Name

Warning: The following article covers a game that covers the topic of suicide. This can be a very sensitive issue. So if you or someone you know has been effected by suicide I will say here to avoid this game. With that said. ON WITH THE SHOW.

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Hello Enthusiacs I am your Lord of Shadows and welcome to “The Static Speaks my Name” A disturbing look into one man’s world of madness.

Here we see an internal struggle of the mind as one man drives himself over the edge. In this case it seems a painting is his undoing. His obsession over the painting slowly but surely over takes everything else in his life.

He has even taken the painter hostage, forcing him to recreate the piece so that this twisted man can unravel the secrets than only his mind has created.

Over the course of ten minutes or so, depending on how much you explore, you go through the last morning of his life. You are able to make one choice. What do you do with the painter? You can open his cage and let him live another day. Or you can fry him with massive amounts of electricity.

Then after a thought you place your noose above your head and the deed is done.

The game itself makes us ask ourselves questions we don’t face much in our everyday lives. Could this be me? Now, no, that doesn’t mean will I kidnap a painter and go batshit stupid. It means would I make the same choice. Suicide is one of the scariest things in our world. Very few people wake up thinking they are going to die today.

Sometimes it just takes little things it drive us over the edge. For some losing their job could be the push. Being left or betrayed by a loved one could be another push.

Now what makes this scary is that by the time we realize we’ve been pushed it is already to late. This game shows us what happens after we’ve been pushed.

However the game is trying to evoke an emotion from you, however by setting itself with such an out their main character it kinda hurts that idea as you don’t feel bad for this guy and by the end of it I was glad to send him to his grave.

Now if they were just going for some serious dark comedy that’s one thing but I think it would have been far more interesting to have it be about a normal person and their decent at least from a serious point of view anyway.

Now we come to the end of this and I will say if you are interested in checking it out it is on Steam right now.

Until next time I am your Lord of Shadow saying

You know what wait. Suicide is a very serious issue. So if you find yourself asking questions to yourself that lead you to think ending things is the right answer I urge you to find people to talk to. Sometimes all it takes is a friend to bring you back from the edge. Find people online, talk to people in our community, or even drop an email to someone here on the site. htlgoose@gmail.com is always ready to be a friend to anyone in need.

So now Until next time I am your Lord of Shadow saying.

Stay Scared my friends.

 

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