The $SLHL town is the classic example for me. You feel confident, you mark your notes, and then the other version of the town arrives and your notes describe a place that no longer exists.

The most important question left: limited saves with ink ribbons, or unlimited? I say limited. Fear needs a cost.

Hardest mode player: I play with no sanity pills and no lights. My friends no longer invite me. I play alone now. Please send help.

Yes! The bright kitchen. And the scariest moment is always when the kitchen stops being safe.

I think the real gift is that kids learn horror can be fun and social. They watch playthroughs together and scream together. That is exactly how I started, just with a different game.

Let's talk about the save room. Soft music, a typewriter, a storage box, maybe a plant you can eat (don't ask). It is the only place in the game where you can breathe. My theory: the save room is the most important scare in survival horror,…

My dream: a new IP that feels like a remake of a game that never existed. Fixed camera, typewriters, but a totally new world.

I play everything on the hardest mode, so remakes are how I finally beat games I was too scared to finish as a kid. Healing, honestly.

Not a film, but replaying the first hour of a survival horror game I have finished twenty times. Save room music is my lullaby.

Putting this on a poster in my save room.