It's our 50th episode and we're spending this special time tackling Silent Hill 4, the divisive end of the original series run. In classic ZB fashion, we can't agree and end up debating the merits of obtuse progression, enemy gauntlets, weird lore and a main antagonist who basically amounts to incel Freddy Kreuger. You can' t make this shit up. Thanks for sticking with us for 50 episodes!

A quick status update and another preview of our Patreon-exclusive bonus episodes. This is a discussion of Disco Elysium, with more available every week at patreon.com/zerobrightness

Another topic episode where we discuss some great scary moments from non-horror games. We run the gamut from Ecco the Dolphin's alien exploits to Half Life 2's haunted house.

We discuss all the horror games/creepy games that you can't play, from creepypastas to weird youtube series and everything in between. Let's get weird!

We take a look at the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc, a collection of lo-fi indie horror games inspired by the gloriously chunky days of PS1 horror gaming. We talk the highlights (and lowlights) of this surprisingly large and diverse collection of bite-size spook-em-ups that finds you doing everything from hacking coffins and collecting cats to outrunning sentient ramen packets and solving zombie crimes. Good stuff.

We continue our discussion of Kentucky Route Zero by breaking down the plot and talking about the finer points of the game's sprawling, reference-heavy narrative.

We start our discussion of Kentucky Route Zero - the long-gestating, densely-layered indie game that was recently collected in a complete edition - by picking apart its influences and aesthetics. We talk about Lynch, Magical Realism, Socialism, Gas Stations, Cinematic Platformers and one-legged ghosts. Get in the car, loser, we're cruisin' the zero!

We're talking about the weird, often overlooked PS1 classic Galerians, one of the very few games that cops the late 80s/early 90s Japanese Cyberpunk/Techno Goth aesthetic (think Akira meets The Prodigy). We break down the many film and music influences on this genre as well as wax poetic about the joys of exploding heads with psychic angst. It's all tank controls and ornate chokers from here on in, folks!

Tips For Starting Galerians:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdxVjteFnCyPeuMy_xUU0FIxrSDjFN6SiJRoDaHm8n0/edit

We tackle the PS1 Clock Tower sequel (sensibly titled Clock Tower II in Japan, annoyingly called Clock Tower in the US) and end up debating the merits of this contentious title. Is is a rare gem in the tiny canon of Argento-inspired games or is it complete and utter garbage?

We're throwing it back to the original Echo Night game, which also happens to be the original Walking Sim. We discuss the many facets of this 1998 PS1 classic, from its forward thinking design to its super crusty controls - stopping along the way to discuss, among other things, why all From Software NPCs end their sentences with "Heh heh heh..."