![]() When it debuted, it was a WiiWare exclusive, at a point in time when it stood out from the crowd like a warthog at a cat show. In retrospect, LIT had the deck stacked against it from the start. It’s a creepy, short action/puzzle game about figuring out a way to safely get Jake from point A to B. ![]() Any light instantly gets rid of the shadows, but if any part of Jake touches them, he’s instantly pulled under to his death. You play LIT 2009 as Jake, a stereotypical “emo” kid who, for no reason that’s ever given in-game, is trapped in a version of his high school that’s been overrun by living darkness. LIT has been reincarnated, so to speak, but as an arguably worse version of itself. The currently-available version of LIT is a 2015 “reimagining” for iOS/Android that comes off like a Saturday-morning cartoon version of the 2009 game. The first LIT is a “dead” game from 2009, which went down with the ship when Nintendo closed the WiiWare shop in 2019, and which was one of the best-kept secrets on the Wii. If you buy Wayforward’s horror action/puzzle game LIT on Steam right now, you’ll get a 2D game about using light sources to find your way through a series of darkened rooms, with an art style that makes it look like a lost episode of “Danny Phantom.” It’s alright for what it is. For me it will always be surreal.”īe sure to check out Ben Rock’s series 20 Seconds to Live over on Ariescope! Obviously I’m flattered and at the same time it’s extremely weird to me that a stopgap idea I had when I was 26 still has any resonance. “ Lionsgate would be the only rights holder. “ My design was a work-for-hire – so it’s not like I own it or feel slighted in any way,” he noted. ![]() I’m just speculating.”Įither way, Rock seems delighted that his creation still remains so iconic and relevant. ![]() “ But honestly I don’t know one way or the other. Like it was planned on some level,” he told me. I mentioned to Rock that it was possible the creators of American Horror Story had no idea, at the time of filming the new season, that The Woods even was a Blair Witch sequel – after all, that secret was only revealed just a couple months ago – but he posited that non-disclosure agreements could have been signed and FX could very well have been working with Lionsgate for the tie-in marketing. “ I don’t have any actual knowledge, but why else? I think brand-wise it could help the new Blair Witch movie just as another way to put that idea in front of a different kind of horror fan – the American Horror Story audience is, I assume (with no actual knowledge) an older audience but maybe one who would remember the original Blair Witch Project.” “ I’m sure it was tied in with the release of the new movie,” Rock speculated, noting that he too found the timing to be something more than mere coincidence. Now I’m not suggesting that there is any actual link between American Horror Story: Roanoke and the Blair Witch universe – it’s of course possible, but not very likely – but isn’t it just a little strange that Blair Witch imagery would be so prevalent in a season of American Horror Story that premiered the exact same time as the release of the first Blair Witch Project film in sixteen years? Is it just an oddly-timed coincidence, or something more?īen Rock is the production designer who created the iconic stickmen for the original Blair Witch Project, and so I reached out to him to see if he had any thoughts on this one. The first episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke premiered literally the night before Blair Witch hit theaters, and you may have even noticed that the first appearance of the stickmen directly preceded a TV spot for, you guessed it, Blair Witch. But timing is everything, and it’s the timing of this particular homage that left me scratching my head. Of course, American Horror Story is known for paying tribute to iconic horror films, so one could easily write off the stickmen as nothing more than just another homage if you’d prefer to call it a “rip off,” that’s totally your prerogative. An even larger stickman made an appearance in this week’s Episode 2, so it’s likely we haven’t seen the last of them on the show. I’m of course referring to The Blair Witch Project‘s creepy “stickmen,” which decorated a house in one scene that immediately had me wondering if, like The Woods, the new season of FX’s hit series was actually some kind of secret sequel. In the first episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke, some very familiar-looking relics made a surprising appearance.
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