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Horror-Themed ‘X-COM’ Style Tactics Awaits in ‘Othercide’
If you needed the tension in X-COM mixed in with some horror, then Lightbulb Crew’s Othercide might be your thing. Set for release in Steam Early Access later this year (“Q2/Q3 2019”, to be exact), the game blends RPG mechanics with traditional turn-based action. Set in a monochromatic dimension that exists outside of our reality, Othercide pits a group of mystical warriors known as the Daughters against hordes of nightmare creatures intent on the destruction of humanity.
The title features a unique turn-based combat mechanic referred to as the Initiative Sequence system. Basically, this allows you to interrupt incoming attacks, set up delayed actions that will occur later in the turn, and respond to enemy threats based on reaction skills. As is the way things go with this type of game, defeating enemies will increase your characters’ level and unlock new skills, but they’ll also have the ability to collect memories from downed opponents that can boost your characters’ powers.
Oh, and if you think you’ll be able to rely on the save system as a backup in case you mess up, that doesn’t appear to be the case: The words “permanent death” are included in the description of the “brutal gameplay” section. Not to mention that, “Every decision counts and comes with a sacrifice, whether it be resources or in blood!”
“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
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