Daryl Talks Games

Stories have the unique ability to make you feel one way while simultaneously telling you that you should feel a completely different way. These games, uniquely, all do exactly that. They break your heart only to then tell you that you can’t stay and wallow in that sadness. They pull you down to rock bottom to teach you that the only way you can go now is up. These are games that… much like many of us, are afraid to let go.

I’m weirdly obsessed with dream sequences in fiction. Hallucinations, fever dreams, insane mental imagery. There's something fascinating about how stories use them to explore a character’s psyche. In this video, we’ll dive into what makes a GOOD nightmare sequence. What film, animation, and games all do best when it comes to crafting a good hallucination. This is the anatomy of the fever dream.

Falling in love with a fictional character is not abnormal. Neither by societal standards based on just how many people do and by psychological standards. It is a normal thing we sometimes do as humans; become attached to someone who doesn’t really exist. Let’s take a journey into the mountain of psychological research and real life pandemonium of fictophilia.