Lit on the Spot

I first reviewed The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword back when it was originally released for the Nintendo Wii in 2011. It was of the first reviews I ever wrote, and its revised version, which was translated to English, can be read here. Back then, I was still young, optimistic, and naïve, believing people were fundamentally good, fascism was a thing of the past, and that Brazilian’s democracy would never be in jeopardy again. More importantly, I was still looking for a direction in life and was about to drop out of Law school to pursue a career in Literature – to my parents’ dismay. I was still grasping [...]

—> This article contains spoilers for Octopath Traveler.

“The game is not your typical epic JRPG, being very modest in scope, telling stories that never intertwine to form a big narrative”

When I wrote my review of Octopath Traveler I never thought this fragment would be one of the most controversial in the whole analysis. However, when I posted it on Reddit – why would I do that, you ask? Well, this website has only five views a month –  I saw more and more claims that I had not finished Octopath Traveler, if I was really saying that the game’s stories don’t eventually connect, forming a large, epic narrative.  Of course, these claims are referring to the fact [...]

—> The following article contains spoilers of the entire novella.

The novella Carmilla, written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, presents a female vampire who begins a peculiar relationship with her victim: instead of treating the young Laura just as prey, Carmilla tries to befriend her. For the female vampire, sucking blood is not enough; she must enter her victim’s private life, becoming a part of it. However, that intimacy, homosexual in its nature, is considered the most egregious crime by the male figures of the narrative, who don’t hesitate to violently reject the vampire’s behavior, fighting her to maintain their hold on the feminine.

The plot of the [...]