7 Points about why Bioshock is my favorite video game saga

I would like to know what is your favorite video game saga is and why? For my part, this is the Bioshock saga.

1. I have always loved the Steampunk, the future seen by the people of the past, with a pretty archaic technology based on cogs and clock mechanisms.

2. Bioshock talks about a lot more or less dark things like religion, racism, madness, etc ... And it expands these aspects with great efficiency, so much so that one can feel compassion or Hatred for certain characters.

3. Most of the "creatures" encountered in the trilogy are in fact human beings who have undergone brainwashings and other abominable mutation experiences, demonstrating how unbounded human cruelty can be.

4. In games, you have to make moral choices, for example you can choose to kill or save the little sisters (I chose to save them) or spare some key characters, and your acts will lead of how the game will end, good or bad. Bioshock is pushing us to think about human nature and it's really interesting.

5. In Bioshock Infinite, the notion of dimensions and parallel realities is brought about. I have always been fascinated by these theories of worlds within worlds, parallel realities where are living our look-alikes. In Bioshock Infinite, parallel realities become reality, and several times, Elizabeth and Booker discover themselves, in different realities to theirs, but each time with a little detail that changes. As Elizabeth says "Constants and variables." This is why Infinite is my favorite opus of the saga, the script is complicated, but it really pushes to think and when you understand, you are left speechless.

6. The character of Elizabeth is the best for me. Yes, I have a cruh on her, but not just for that. Her story is really interesting, complete and tragic. She is kind, intelligent and open-minded, but in the depths, she is tortured and sad and seeks by all means to put an end to the madness that reigns and to repair the errors of her father, and her owns.

7. Expansions "Burial at Sea" make (I think) a final point to the saga, because the expansions reveal all the links between Infinite and the first Bioshock (chronologically, Infinite is a prequel, because it takes place in 1912 and Bioshock 1 In 1960), and proves to us that "Everything was linked from the beginning". This end left me speechless, heart tight and deeply moved. I will say no more for no spoiling, but I really recommend the Bioshock saga, which for me remains one of the best video game franchises ever.

"No gods. Or kings.

Only man."

- Andrew Ryan, Bioshock 1

Mathias, the killmaster

Fire and Blood \m/

DiscoveRock Edition N°25 - Babymetal

For the 25th edition of DiscoveRock, I'm going to talk about a very special band, which I became a fan, a band that is subject to a lot of hatred (unfairly), on the part of purists metal fans. But I don't fucking care of what they think, I like this band and I put it in DiscoveRock because for me, it's a group like any other, which has the right to its chance and the right to exist. Here is my favorite Japanese metal band, Babymetal! \m/

The group was formed in 2010 and is still young, but has already acquired a worldwide reputation and made concerts around the world. A mythology was even created around the group, designating the three girls and main members of the group (Su, Yui and Moa) as young women warriors, who were chosen by the god-fox, a god of metal, to spread the power of metal throughout the world and fight the forces of evil. For me, being a super fan of fantasy and supernatural, I adore this idea which makes the group seem almost supernatural too. Babymetal is a mixture of Heavy Metal and J-Pop, and it's true that at first I found the concept interesting but strange, and then I listened, and in the end, I really liked, the mix is very well done. Even though I have not yet seen the band in live, their videos of concerts really impressed me too. The songs are dynamic, powerful, some fast, others slower, the dances are very well done, Su, Yui and Moa do a very good job, like the musicians who play with them on stage. They define their style as a new kind of metal, the "Kawaii" Metal, and I find the idea amusing. As I wrote at the beginning, metal purists criticize the band very much, saying it is not a real metal band, and with that I do not agree. There are metal elements, such as guitar, bass and drums, and the sound is clearly metal, so the band can be put into that category. For my part I am one of those who support Babymetal against these unfair criticisms, and I repeat, the group deserves to have its chance to exist. For now, the band has only released two albums, the first, "Babymetal", released in 2014, and the second, "Metal Resistance", released in 2016, and this is just the beginning. I wish a lot of success to Babymetal and a lots of other albums to come.

Members:
- Suzuka Nakamoto "Su-Metal" (vocals, dance)
- Yui Mizuno "Yui-Metal" (backing vocals, dance)
- Moa Kikuchi "Moa-Metal" (backing vocals, dance)

Greetings from France, and hail Babymetal \m/

Mathias, the Killmaster

Fire and Blood \m/ 

Dark Souls 3 - Hardest and Best Game I ever played

Some time ago, after finally getting a Playstation 4, I bought a game that I had heard a lot about and that I wanted to test: one of the toughest games in the world: the one and only Dark Souls 3, the last of the Dark Souls saga, and which, for me, concludes magnificently this dark and epic saga.
Recently, I finished the game (not without a lot of trouble), and here is my feeling about it.

In the medieval apocalyptic world of the game, we are in the devastated kingdom of Lothric, and we embody an anonymous character (whose name, appearance and class can be chosen), as an unkindled, undead designated by fate to find the lords of cinder and bring them back, voluntarily or by force, to their thrones to be sacrificed to the fire, which will allow the first flame, artifact allowing the world to stand still alive, not to die.

For my part, I chose to be a knight, I called him Mathias of course and modeled the face of my character so that he resembles me.

Lothric's Castle

One of the great strengths of Dark Souls 3 is of course, as in all Souls games, fighting the bosses, and for the third game, they have booked fucking very tough monsters. Among the bosses that have given me the most difficulty, there are the Abyss Watchers, Dancer of the Boreal Valley, Aldrich the devourer of gods, Lorian and Lothric the twin princes, and the last boss, the Soul of Cinder. For each boss, a strategy must be developed by the player if he wants to win the fight. In Dark Souls, do not go ahead without thinking when you fight against a boss, otherwise you risk being massacred. The estus flask, which make up your health potions, are quite rare and must be used wisely. The more the game progresses, the harder and tougher the bosses become, so much so that some of them, if they succeed in chasing the blows, can kill you in only three or four shots. I'm not going to lie, I've died a lot of times in the game, I've even stuck at some bosses, but I did not give up, and one after another I killed them. If you want to go fast in a boss fight, you risk losing. Take your time, analyze the attacks of the boss while dodging them and observe each of his movements, because a single mistake can be fatal, to him just like for you. The fights can last long enough, but with the epic music, mixing classical music and Gregorian chants, we like to make these fights last.

Vordt of the Boreal Valley, one of the first bosses in the game.

I succeeded to kill him at my first attempt.

Graphisms are just.....WOW!

I've talked a lot about enemies, but you're not alone in the game, there are a few allies, rare, but they're here. You will meet them in the Firelink Shrine, which will constitute your base camp or you will come to improve your equipment, buy things or improve your level. Among the allies, to give an example, there is André the blacksmith, who can improve your weapons to make them more powerful (but it's not for free of course). There is also the Fire Keeper (her real name is unknown). She is the guardian of the fire and in a way, your guardian angel. It is revealed in the game that she and you share a common destiny: to maintain the fire to prevent the world from sinking into the darkness. In other allies I enjoyed, there is also Siegward of Catarina, a fat knight wandering in a big armor, slow enough to think but very fun.

The Fire Keeper <3

My final judgment for this game is the maximum score of 20/20. Dark Souls 3 is a masterpiece of the video game, with its dark, macabre atmosphere, these apocalyptic creatures that do not leave you any chance of respite, these epic soundtracks, those titan fights against bosses that are for the most part, much bigger than you ..... For the fans of Dark Fantasy, this game is gold.

Mathias, the Killmaster

Fire and Blood \m/