Really appreciate the way OVERWHELM skewers difficulty discourse. It turns out you can be both uncompromising and accessible! Phoenix gets to the heart of why and how this works.

TItiereview.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 9:39pm

@phoenixsimms.bsky.social starts off the third issue with an literary analysis of the Randomnine's mechanics for his anti-metroidvania, OVERWHELM.

The Poetics of Endurance

OVERWHELM is less about punishment and more about vindication. Vindication that sometimes even perseverance, that vanguard of individualist hope in particular, will fail.