After watching the trailer for Team Cherry's Silksong , as well as a recent interview with the developers, themselves, I decided to do a response video of my own. The video clocks in at over an hour. So I wanted to provide an abridged version for people to read, here. As a Gothic scholar, I wrote my thesis on two Metroidvania: Metroid (1986) and Hollow Knight (2017). I consider most Metroidvania to be Gothic. However, being a sequel can wildly effect a Gothic text's ability to horrify or terrify its audience. Ann Radcliffe chose to terrify hers; "Monk" Lewis chose to horrify his. These two devices generally work in tandem, and nearly any text will contain elements of either. Usually one is more predominant than the other, and this ratio can invert from sequel to sequel, author to author. Works from the same author can change, too. Ridley Scott has helped shape and reshape the Alien franchise as an ongoing narrative. In a dark, un...
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