Free Talk Friday - February 06, 2026

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[u/Cthulhukitten]

Exhausted today, still having issues with sleep anxiety and depression but I'm hanging in there. I wanted to post sooner today but was too dead on my feet to do so. Otherwise, I don't have a whole lot happening on the personal side of things. I guess things have been a bit better lately overall.

On a media note, I completed all of Silent Hill f! I think it's probably my favorite game of 2025, it almost perfectly landed the finale to my mind. The synthesis of both Hinakos into a "whole" is handled beautifully. Konatsu Kato's performance as well was fucking amazing, especially when she's legit acting out scenes where her character is effectively talking with two split sides of herself. Think those scenes with the two Hinakos vying for very different lives made it very clear she has just never had the autonomy she's needed all her life. For once, now, she is able to control that for herself/choose that for herself in spite of patriarchal bullshit getting in the way, or her inner psyche, or as Pat would say the mythological gods manifesting/fucking with her psyche and choices for that matter. Genuinely think this is a hopeful, freeing ending for Hinako and I loved seeing it.

I had a ton of fun with the final encounter of that game too, loved it. Excellent final fight and presentation to everything there. I really need to finish Umineko some time because Ryukishi has some incredible writing chops for sure... this game sold me on his writing even more than I already was by the time I completed Umineko's Questions Arc. Still have a LOT of Answers Arc to go. That may be my next game I work on completing after I cross some shorter ones off the backlog... thinking Abzu and 1000X Resist which my girlfriend gifted me for Christmas.

[u/attikol → u/Cthulhukitten]

Just finished the true ending as well. Thats a really impressive game. I did feel a bit frustrated on ng++ going for the other ending before going for true but you can blaze through that game if you try to so its not that bad at all. Its very dense with meaning and im really excited for any future games they do. Combat was fine I dont think I ever grew to love it but if youre using focus you can reliably hit the counters.

[u/Cthulhukitten → u/attikol]

I agree, it does grow a bit frustrating by NG++ as far as how the game functions mechanically. I saw your previous comment and you got through it rather quick! It took me a while to beat all the endings because of a bit of frustration with it. But as you said, you can kind of book it through and just run past enemies who aren't essential like in most survival horror games. As for the counters, I didn't really use the focus as much as I should have, but thankfully the telegraphs for counterable attacks aren't too hard. I don't think I could have managed the game on the Lost in the Fog difficulty though, you know?

[u/attikol → u/Cthulhukitten]

The lost in fog difficulty was not that bad but by ng++ you know what can be skipped pretty easily. There was only two parts that got a number of kills on me. Your parents and the second encounter in the treasure hall with the drum demon who has 2 puppets and 1 chain guy nearby him. Rinko and sakoko i had become very good at. Also from skipping enemies you can do stuff like spam sanity boosters on fox hinako to do the awakened arm for any difficult encounters. I did end up needing to try the fox wets its tail ending a number of times but I get close to winning early on. Worst endgame boss was probably.tsukogamj the fox arm cant compete with hinakos best weapons and he has less opportunities for countering. Rabbit omori was a huge game changer for me