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Posted by CloudsideCastles - June 15th, 2024


There is a mobile game I can't find anything about but I clearly remember playing back in highschool, Emily in Darkness. At least I think that's how it was called.


It had top-down view and very nice drawn art style, with gameplay somehow reminding me about Binding of Isaac but without roguelite elements (I think). You had to navigate through the labyrinth while shooting at enemies with your own blood, trying to find the door to the next level. World was monochrome and dark, characters who didn't attack you were rare (I encountered only one before stopping playing, an elderly woman with bandages on her eyes), looking injured and downright bizarre, which created pretty lonely and unsettling atmosphere.


The plot was that the protagonist, Emily, found herself in the woods and shortly after that got shot, but instead of simply dying she woke up in some sort of a dark maze/catacombs/weird building-looking place, and had to navigate it to find her way out. I didn't get too far in the game because it was pretty difficult. I'm pretty sure I left out a lot of secrets and couldn't get into a lot of rooms before moving onto the next levels. One of the rooms had its only entrance covered in spikes and I didn't want to risk it, pretty sure it was some puzzle I didn't get. I only got through the first few of the levels. I remember I stopped playing at the first cutscene outside the intro since my English was very bad back then so I didn't understand anything and put the game down to return to it later. But my phone got broken at some point so I couldn't finish it, and when I tried to search for it again years later I only found some article about how it was only available on IOS while I played it on Android. And later on I couldn't find anything about that game at all no matter how hard I searched. I wonder if someone remembers it.


Posted by CloudsideCastles - January 23rd, 2023


I'm regretting the username I choose here. AAAAAAA. Well guess it's my fate now.


Posted by CloudsideCastles - December 8th, 2022


Thinking about putting some of my old drawings here. It was a while since I posted my works anywhere at all since leaving DeviantArt, and I didn't draw much anyway. Oh well. I'm going to post here and on Tumblr from now on, I guess. If I will draw anything, that's it.


Posted by CloudsideCastles - October 16th, 2022


I was dreaming that I was with some girls navigating the desolate parts of the mall corridors. The girls were supposedly my friends. Supposedly, we were in our mid-to-late teens. The underlying feeling I had in this dream was as if I was taken and put in a life of someone else, but without their memories and was treated as me. So I didn't know who these girls are and my past.


These corridors had lots of elevators. One of the girls told that she's scared of these desolate corridors. I tried to cheer her up by telling that we're all in it together, but it didn't seem to calm her down. I wasn't scared though, because I had people with me.

Then I wanished and ended up in the normal part of the mall, one of the shops. I walked to the shop owner and asked about my friends, which he told will probably go here too soon. I felt I fucked up and told I'm going to travel back in time to get them. So this sudden teleport was because of the time travel then, huh. Turned out I didn't need it, because the girls soon appeared in the seats that were all around the shop.


We would walk around the shop, which had more empty boutiques in it, each with a computer table in the very middle of each room, with people behind these. I was perplexed as to why they'd place it like this and kept asking, but they wouldn't answer. We would encounter shadow people all around the shop. Pink shades were memories of my past friends, but I don't know what purple shades were. Both types seemed like a normal thing so no one would bother with them.


The girls later would go to the staff room to look for something, and I was left by myself. Shades would look in their phones, or look at me, but otherwise they stood still. I got unnerved by them, and went back to the girls, asking them at what point I was friends with people shades of whom I see now, but girls kept looking at me with confusion and tell that I should know. I realized that it's better drop this conversation.


We kept talking, and the shades were all around us. Looking at us. Then the world went to black and I heard someone whispering to me, and then I woke up. Though… I think "kicked out of the dream" would be more fitting, as if I did something I wasn't supposed to. It was early morning, like 5 am, and I got very fucking scared of this cryptic bullshit. Especially whispering… brr.


I couldn't get back to sleep this night.


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