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27th October 2023

#blacksad: under the skin #black sad #free games #gog.com

[spankymerve]

Video Game Diary: January/February 2023

I promised myself I’d do more writing for this blog in 2023, and so in keeping with that, I’ve decided to keep a semi-regular gaming diary. Instead of writing full essays or reviews, I’m just going to write a few short paragraphs about what I’ve completed and what I’ve been playing. That won’t preclude writing essays or reviews if I feel so inclined, but with this kind of blog post, I hope to…

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#A Space for the Unbound #Atomic Heart #Baba Files Taxes #Backfirewall_ #Birth #Blacksad: Under the Skin #Grounded #Hi-Fi Rush #Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope #Metroid Prime #Soul Hackers 2 #Sports Story

[realfuurikuuri]

Woop! Woop! New video alarm!

#youtube #furry #gaming #echo #echo vn #echo project #Blacksad #blacksad under the skin #bluey #bluey the video game #The Heartbeat #Glory Hounds #video

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#games #blacksad #blacksad under the skin #john blacksad #icons

[blacksadooc]

All Blacksad content until now.

#blacksad #blacksad under the skin #john blacksad

[gamingladies]

Sonia Dunn | Blacksad: Under the Skin (2019)

#sonia dunn #blacksad under the skin #blacksad #blacksadedit #gamingcreatures #videogamewomen #dailyvideogames #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #gamingnetwork #gamingedit #videogameedit #vgedit #gameedit #gameredit #*by gamingladies #gifs #*by shania

[ekzonzz]

Why they made him so hot

#Blacksad #Under the skin #more like #under his pants

[bear-ion]

just started the blacksad game and why does john sound like that 😭

#if i had a nickel for everytime a character i liked in a game sounded nothing like how i imagined them i’d have two nickels #blacksad under the skin #disco elysium #LIKE HARRY BESTIE (de)

[mysteamgrids]

Blacksad: Under the Skin

#steam #steamgrid #blacksad under the skin

[sleepdepravity]

in celebration of one of my sister's friends admiring my "gamer swag" (all the games i've played that are apparently obscure) i've decided arbitrarily to try to dredge up some obscure games to share with you all in case people are interested in that sort of thing. in terms of determining the obscurity of the game, i think i'm gonna go with less than 1000 reviews, and/or looking at all-time peak concurrent player stats in steam charts. whatever i feel like maybe. Also, if there are absolutely no guides on steam or the internet, then i guess that's for sure obscure.

also these are all games that i've finished. some of them i finished a long time ago so i may not remember much about like. quality. or how good they are. shrug. they're interesting though.

Mysteries

Aviary Attorney

Chicken Police

Blacksad: Under the Skin

A Case of Distrust

The Flower Collectors

The Forgotten City

Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game

I hope she's ok

Legal Dungeon

Lucifer Within Us

Paradise Killer

The Occupation

Observation

Root Letter

Sagebrush

The Shapeshifting Detective

Silicon Dreams

The Sinking City

Song of Farca

Visual/Sound Novel types (minimal gameplay)

Alone With You

428: Shibuya Scramble

Booth: A Dystopian Adventure

Divination

Elsinore

Necrobarista

Neo Cab

Overboard!

Signs of the Sojourner

Sorcery!

Unmemory

Adventure/Puzzle or whatever

A House of Many Doors

Battle Chef Brigade

Falcon Age

Genesis Noir

A Golden Wake

I Am Dead

Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

Lemon Cake

looK INside

The Low Road

Maquette

Mind Scanners

Minute of Islands

Mu Complex

Nobodies

Omensight

Pilgrims

Roadwarden

Robot Island

Rumu

Senna and the Forest

Sizeable

Small Radios Big Televisions

The Solitaire Conspiracy

Song of the Deep

The Spirit and the Mouse

Still There

Summer Paws

Teacup

Tick Tock Isle

Vane

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother

Windbound

Windowsill

Yono and the Celestial Elephants

Four Last Things

FixFox

Walk around a cool place and pick stuff up

Heaven's Vault

Deliver Us the Moon

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

Beasts of Maravilla Island

Draugen

Eastshade

event[0]

Ghost on the Shore

Haven Park

In Other Waters

The Magic Circle

Mail Time

Mu Cartographer

Paper Beast

Paradise Marsh

Penko Park

Here Comes Niko!

Sea of Solitude

Summer in Mara

Time on Frog Island

TIMEframe

Train Station Renovation

Horror

The Horror of Salazar House

Moons of Madness

Subway Midnight

#malky plays games #there's a lot more than i thought...uh...anyways... #maybe i'll write more about like. the individual games later. i'm just tossing these out there for now #basically these are games that i remember standing out to me maybe?? #i dunno. #obscure game recs

[twistedtummies2]

Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes - Number 17

Welcome to A Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes! During this month-long event, I’ll be counting my Top 31 Favorite Fictional Detectives, from movies, television, literature, video games, and more!

SLEUTH-OF-THE-DAY’S QUOTE: “I don’t believe a detective exists who likes to see his trenchcoat ruined…”

Number 17 is…Blacksad.

In my previous pick, I talked about Sam Spade – arguably the most quintessential of all noir-style detectives. Today, we’re discussing another noir-style detective, but a very…different one. Unlike Spade, this character is far more recent, and originates neither from novels nor the cinema…but instead from the world of comic books. I am referring to John Blacksad, the titular protagonist of the graphic novel crime series, “Blacksad.”

This series is the brainchild of two Spanish creators: writer Juan Diaz Canales, and artist Juanjo Guarnido. Canales has been a comic book author for many years, but never really made a big splash till “Blacksad.” Guarnido, however, is actually someone many more people will recognize: even if you haven’t heard his name, the chances are you’ve seen his work. From 1993 to 2004, he was an animator and layout artist for Disney! Among other things, he was one of the lead animators for two recognizable Disney Villains: Hades in Disney’s “Hercules,” and Sabor in “Tarzan.” His final project with the studio was a short cartoon called “Lorenzo.”

It was not long after Guarnido left Disney that he reconnected with Canales, whom he’d met many years before. The two decided to collaborate and create a graphic novel that paid homage to classic film noir crime stories and pulp magazines of the 1930s and 40s. This novel was entitled “Blacksad: Somewhere Within the Shadows.” The book was highly successful, earning several awards and being translated into various languages; the English translation, interestingly, was handled largely by comic book veteran Neal Adams. (May he rest in peace.) Since then, there have been three sequel tales, and a four-part tale called “They All Fall Down,” which has yet to be finished; only the first two parts are currently complete, if I’m not mistaken. There has also been a video game based on the series made, called “Under the Skin,” which tells a new story all its own; I have not played the game, but I have seen some video of it, and it does a good job capturing everything great about the comics. In the English version of the game, Blacksad is voiced by Barry Johnson.

As you can guess from the cover shown here, the conceit of “Blacksad” is that all of the characters are anthropomorphic animals. (And yeah, it’s easy to see Guarnido’s Disney background through his art in several places throughout the books…and I mean that in a VERY good way, because the art is AWESOME on so many levels.) However, this is not a kid-friendly or heavily satirical series. While there are moments here and there of meta humor, paying homage to and occasionally poking fun at various tropes of the noir genre, Blacksad takes itself seriously: it’s telling more or less dramatic noir-style crime stories, it’s just that the characters are covered in scales, fur, and feathers. Many have compared it to the somewhat controversial graphic novel “Maus,” where creator Art Spiegelman uses different animals to represent different kinds of people. This is SOMEWHAT similar, but I think it’s more appropriate to say Blacksad is what would happen if “Zootopia” had been Rated R. The fact these characters are animals is often part of the story and many details in it, rather than just a mask, so to speak. As a fan of film noir, it’s interesting to see how these stories play out, with legitimately surprising mysteries, dark secrets to be discovered, and many murders most foul.

As to the main character himself…Blacksad is a pretty typical noir detective, but for some reason he still manages to stand out from the crowd in a fun way. While he’s a cynical and sometimes grouchy guy, he’s also a charming ladies’ man, and has a sense of humor about himself as well as the rest of the world. One of my favorite elements of his character is how he seems to DELIBERATELY play up his own noir-esque elements: it’s as if he’s putting on this show for the rest of the world, in-universe, creating this very specific façade for others to notice. Out of universe, of course, it leads to some wonderful jokes, such as him getting peeved about his trenchcoat being ruined (a-la the quote I selected). The supporting cast around him is a lot of fun, too: most notable are his two best friends. First, there’s Smirnov, a German Shepherd police commissioner who has a long history with the tuxedo tabby. Second, there’s Weekly, a literal weasel of a journalist (with notoriously terrible B.O.) who essentially acts as Blacksad’s sidekick in some stories. Both are fun characters who adhere to classic tropes, while also being unique and interesting in their own right; again, much like Blacksad himself, and the series as a whole.

If you’re a fan of comics, a fan of detective stories and film noir, or a fan of seeing former Disney animators do very un-Disney things with topics like racism, the Red Scare, serial killing, and other unspeakable forms of nastiness…then definitely check out either the comics or the video game I mentioned earlier. They’re definitely worth your time.

Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 16!

CLUE: “We're smart people. So why do we always do things that make us look like we have the intelligence of beef jerky?”

#list #countdown #best #favorites #top 31 fictional detectives #gathering of the greatest gumshoes #number 17 #blacksad #john blacksad #comics #mystery #noir #video games

[collateral-daverage]

blacksad: under the skin was part of a bundle and i couldnt not get it for the funnies and folks i gotta say it feels rly bad to play lmao walking around feels bad, the models bug out, sometimes the subtitles dont match the dialogue, the camera loses focus during cutscenes

the few good things i will say about it is that the mystery is good enough that i wanna know how it ends, the voice acting is ok and despite being funny animal people, historically its still accurate? idk anything about blacksad i just think its a nice detail

#text #blacksad

[goddamnwebcomics]

Ah, good ol’ Blacksad. Probably one of my favorite graphic novels.

While I agree with the sentiment that “Arctic Nation” is the weakest of the six issues, I hesitate to say that it’s a bad arc. Even the worst Blacksad issue still has all the characteristics that make the comic so good.

Might be an unpopular take since two separate people said that “Red Soul” is where the comic really picks up, but my favorite issue is actually the first one, “Somewhere Within the Shadows”.

I wrote the referenced post, by the way; probably should've made that clear. And one other correction: if we count it, Blacksad's worst arc is "Under the Skin"—the transition to video game did not suit our private eye well. 

I see then. Shame to hear that a video game version is the worst arc. Would any webcomic we’ve riffed ever be turned into a video game?

#furry webcomic

[geekcavepodcast]

Geek Cave Podcast 154.2 | GAMING | When Bugs Bunny had a better game than Mario

This month, Darrin turns a review of Wrecking Crew (NES) into a competition between Mario and Bugs Bunny, Justin reviews Blacksad: Under The Skin to some disastrous results, and Chad enjoys a Dark Soulsish take on Pinocchio with Lies of P.

Also covered: Final Fantasy XVI, Unpacking, Pokemon Violet, and Final Fantasy: Theaterhythm

We’re raising money for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals through Extra Life! Details: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=63986

Download and listen today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Stitcher, Goodpods, and more of your favorite podcast services!

Sponsored by Shirtasaurus and Gamefly.

#gaming #nintendo #retro #video games #podcast #lies of p #final fantasy xvi #pokemon violet #unpacking #wrecking crew #blacksad

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#games #blacksad #blacksad under the skin #john blacksad #smirnov #blacksad x smirnov #screencaps

[miyakuli]

Blacksad : Under The Skin

I haven't read the Blacksad comic much, but I have always appreciated its atmosphere and its design. As a result, this adaptation caught my eye very quickly, since I’m very found of narrative/point&click games ;) In the end, my overall feeling is a bit mixed, although I didn't have a bad time either.

❤ A neat film noir atmosphere, accompanied by its very good jazzy soundtrack. ❤ A nice game mechanic, between the p&c investigation phases, the qte animations and the deduction moments ❤ The french dub is amazing!!! (and sorry if it doesn’t concern everyone but it's worth mentioning!)

+/- An interesting and rather well-written original scenario, but too predictable in its execution. I often had a big head start on the character, so it was frustrating...

✖ Lots of loadings, sometimes long. ✖ A rough lip sync ✖ Blacksad is not a cat but a snail (movements are so sloooooooow!) ✖ Many illusions of choice (basically you choose badly, you die... it's not really a narrative choice in the end ^^"). Also, we have a page with “our Blacksad” that shows the different degrees of personality of the character depending of our choices (kinda nice) but that doesn’t matter at all in the end... ✖ Really unnecessary collectibles that break the rhythm.

In the end, the game will have the merit of offering a worked atmosphere and scenario, but it clearly lacks technical mastery and maturity in its narration.

➡ My Steam page

#I have another game of this same Studio - Vertigo - so I'm curious to see their evolution with this new game #6/10 for me #blacksad #Lola plays games #personal