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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
Oct 23, 2025 • Danny Sullivan
Assorted thoughts after 50+ hours of Hollow Knight: Silksong
This is a video game blog now sorry
Oct 10, 2025 • Danny Sullivan
Too many strange things are happening
Metal Gear Solid (Hideo Kojima, 1998)
Jul 13, 2025 • Danny Sullivan
The Witness builds a scale model of the inquiring mind
Line puzzles and the aesthetic experience of thought
Jul 6, 2025 • Danny Sullivan
Is a side quest a short story?
Reading and playing The Witcher
Oct 27, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
Funny how we get attached to the struggle
Playing Celeste and giving up
Sep 20, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
Postscript: The Dreg Heap and the Angel of History
Part Five
Jun 20, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
The Lands Between Heaven and Earth: The External Soul and the Worship of Trees in Elden Ring
Part Four
Jun 19, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
The Seclusion of Women: Ritual Without Society
Part Three
Jun 18, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
God in the Flesh: Consumption, Pollution, and Transformation in Bloodborne and Sekiro
Part Two
Jun 17, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
Killing the Lord of Cinder: Decline and Renewal in Dark Souls
Part One
Jun 16, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
The Golden Bough Aflame: Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and FromSoft’s Games of Pure Myth
Introduction to a five part series
Jun 15, 2024 • Danny Sullivan
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