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Almost finished this game last night. So far It has been... Interesting.

The game tries to handle A LOT of stuff: social media harassment, suicide, bullying, the psychological effects of COVID on people and other things I won't spoil for those who want to play It out eventually. I admire the fact these topics are being dealt on the medium of videogames, although I feel that for the length of the game it tries to tackle too much all at once (the game can be beaten in less than 2 hours, which isn't awful for a free game).

As usual with Silent Hill, the main character has a lot of gray areas I won't spoil, so I can understand some people not finding her that likeable (although I feel that is kinda the point with these games, knowing SH2's popular twist), I personally kinda relate to what her and her friends go through, although I would have handled it in a longer experience.

The design of the monster is quite cool, although the game isn't really scary. I had trouble sleeping last night after playing It, but It ain't Evil Dead Rise in terms of imagery and tension.

Overall: it's fine for a free game. It does give me hope on future full-budget Silent Hill games handling very important topics nowadays, although I feel they went too ambitious with this free title. I reccomend trying It out or at least downloading It (we don't know when Konami will get wacky and delist It), but don't expect Silent Hill 2 levels of writing.

I'd give It a 6.5/10. Not bad for a free game, but should have focused on one or two topics.

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Honestly, I am very divided about how they handled the character: on one hand I can't deny they did something really well which No Way Home was kinda lacking: the classic tunes associated with the character.
It may not seem like much to some, but getting to hear the themes which many have grown up with both in the 90s with the original two Batman movies with Keaton and in the mid 2000s with the LEGO Batman trilogy and remixed or reorchestrated feels kinda amazing. It helps boost up scenes such as this one:
This whole scene is amazing because the music really carries It, ngl. If they used anything else I feel It wouldn't impact as much.

On the other hand... Is It just me or they made Keaton's Batman too epic and larger than life than how It actually was in the original movies?

I get that we are talking about one of the most iconic and legendary takes on the character, and as such the crew of the movie were excited to be working with him... But idk, in the original movies Batkeaton felt more like a character in the lines of someone such as Blade or say the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original black & White comics version, not the cartoon ones). He killed, he used fire weapons (on his vehicles) and even smiled while doing so. I feel the version of The Flash ignored these faults on the philosophy of this version to instead show how epic and amazing this version was... Which imo isn't ideal.
No Way Home for example knew to take their characters and events from the Raimi and Webb movies seriously while also acknowledging the flaws or imperfections of said characters (Electro finding Connor's plan silly for example, or how Andrew Garfield couldn't forgive himself for letting Gwen die). I feel they should have done something similar with Keaton's Batman, and in fact one of my favourite moments in the whole movie (and the only joke I laughed at) was when they are on that elevator about to set an explosion and asks both Flashes how much they weight to set up the proper one. That was funny, and acknowledged the fact that Batkeaton was calculative and very researchful in the original movies.


Tl;dr: Keaton's Batman in The Flash succeeds on the music and sound department, but in philosophy It doesn't really treat the character with the honesty and awareness of the villains and Peter 2 and 3 in No Way Home

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I LOVE being told that I am not a real latino for talking with someone on Discord who claims to be full venezolan while I am just half venezolan and half from the Canary Islands.

I ADORE getting clowned on for being an Indiana Jones fan and """not understanding latinos at all""" despite being well-versed on my culture and my legacy.

I SPECIALLY admire the fact all of that happened over me just saying on a Marvel Discord server that the LATAM representation in Wakanda Forever could have been better or as great as how Encanto portrays Colombia.

I also REALLY LIKE that all of this has been happening for the past days while my crush had to drop out of her gender equality career over facing discrimination for her skin and not being able to speak spanish, my cousins are dealing with their worst crisis ever and my father worsens on psychologically torturing me.

Great stuff people, great stuff.