Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone

by Ryan Veeder profile

Episode 2 of Tales from Castle Balderstone
2019
Inform 7

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What it says on the tin, March 4, 2025

This game is the exact same concept as the first one, except with four more games. They were perhaps a bit less scary, but it seems like more work was put into them, perhaps. The callback to the previous game, with the in-game Ryan Veeder finally having thought of a question for his favorite author, was the best part. At Veeder's suggestion, I opened the website Rainy Mood in another tab to get into the correct mindset while playing this anthology. At some point during the third game, under the sounds of rain and thunder, birds started chirping! At first I got angry, since this didn't inspire the right state of mind - but then I thought, on the contrary! It does. It's a perfect metaphor for Ryan Veeder's balance of darkness and light in these scary but funny stories. Also it's spring right now instead of Halloween, so the birds seem apropos.

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