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What’s better: bioluminescence, or dark darkness?Vote now!
Vote now!
Image credit:Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Image credit:Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Last time, you decided thattime loops are better than resuming interrupted reloads. We thankfully won’t need to re-run that result, but we cannot fully leave the past behind us. One eagle-eyed reader observed that time loops and staged reloads “aren’t really comparable”, and I cannot overstate my embarrassment at having made such an obvious mistake. My deepest apologies to everyone who has trusted me to conduct this research with great rigour. I must do better. So reader dearest, I now ask you to pick between two things we can all agree are two of a kind. What’s better: dark darkness, or bioluminescence?
Bioluminescence
Even in the most wizardly of video games, the most magical-feeling thing is often something quite real: bioluminescence. Through simple chemical processes (and a few million years of evolution), all manner of flora, fauna, and fungi have the ability to emit a glow. Deep-sea horrors with light-up lures. Fireflies flitting about with bright bottoms to attract mates.Ocean plankton pulsing bluein crashing waves. Jack-O'-Lantern mushrooms glowing from the gills, found even in the UK. And with genetic modification,even cats can glow. It’s magical in reality, and it’s magical in video games.
I am always a fan of pretty glowy things, but it’s so special that bioluminescence feels completely magical and unreal when it is, in fact, wholly real. It’s always nice when fiction make reality even more wondrous.
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Dark darkness
Most recently, I’ve enjoyed/hated the pitch-black nights of Sons OfThe Forest. When the sun goes down, evenmy completely peaceful and unthreatening walkstake a dark turn. Very good. I hate it, thank you for making it.
I’m still sorry thatDark Souls 2came out so much brighter than it seemed in early marketing.
But which is better?
You know what would make your dark darkness really pop, mate? Something bioluminescent. Has to be. But what do you think, reader dear?
