#hollowbodie

[horrorwomen]

Hollowbody (2024).

[evilwvergil]

H O L L O W B O D Y : "Hollowbody" is a third person survival horror game with an emphasis on strong world building set in a dystopian near-future. With classic survival horror gameplay inspired by SILENT HILL

[indiegamesource]

Hollowbody;

an upcoming horror game by Headware Games (Coming Sept 12, 2024)

[gallusneve]

Hollowbody (2024) dev. Headware Games

Play as Mica, an unlicensed black market shipper who will stop at nothing to find her missing partner. "You wake to the acrid smell of an electrical fire, rain pounding on the cracked windshield. You're surrounded by the crumbling remains of what were once considered homes."

[ayeforscotland]

First video of my Next Fest coverage! Hollowbody feels like a British Silent Hill, you can watch my reaction to the absolute doozy of a Scottish accent in the first 6 minutes.

[deebeeus]

Gibson's Golden Age.

1958 #Gibson #ES295 from my friend's collection.

Here's an outtake from my photo session for Vic DaPra and David Plues' upcoming book "ES Believers". Look for this guitar and several others from the same collection when the book comes out later this year (or early next year...David assures me if it's not out by Christmas it will definitely be out in time for NAMM!).

[supergreatfrien]

Bumbling Through Hollowbody p.1 - What's Your Trauma?

It may be the cyber future, but there are still loved ones missing in monster-filled towns.

[brandyrobbinscyberpunk]

artwork by David Alejandro M

[madamshogunassassin]

Tech-noir survival horror Hollowbody is releasing on PC via Steam and GOG on: SEPTEMBER 12th.

[sourwolfs-blog]

Just occurred to me that I never shared my new guitar that I got back in December. It's my dream guitar, and I'm so happy to be learning on it. Come August, it will be 1 year since I started learning.

(It's also a similar guitar to what Swiss plays as well 🤭)

[letsrevince]

HOLLOWBODY IS OUT

Survival Horror harkening to the peak PS2 days of Silent Hill 3, Haunting Grounds and Rule of Rose? sign me tf up

[horrorwomen]

Hollowbody (2024).

[ianvase]

My uncle in-laws Gibson ES-175.

[quaddmgd]

hi heather!!! is hollowbody good? it's so pretty to look at and i might try playing it! i love my survival horrors <3

hi! while there are some bugs that need to be fixed and the combat is a little rough around the edges, i'd say get it!

especially if you like silent hill, because the game really feels like silent hill. it's oozing with atmosphere and i really enjoyed its story

it is short though. it can be completed in 5 hours on your first run. but there are 3 endings to get, a few well hidden secrets and some cool new game+ unlocks, that can easily extend your playtime.

i wrote a bit more about it here!

overall i really liked it, i'm still thinking about it and i'll definitely play it again!

thanks for the ask :3

[illbewritinghere]

An analysis of Hollowbody

Spoilers.

Hollowbody tells the timeless tale of how far you can go for the one you love. We play as Mica who is on a mission to find her missing partner, Sasha. Hollowbody is set in a dystopian future where a suspected bioterrorism attack has left most of England in a financial and economic ruin. A handful of 'selected' individuals live in a walled city safe from the perils outside.

Many living in the city still fight for justice for the ones they lost. Sasha was one of them. In one of their ventures outside the city walls, Sasha and a group of other activists encounter something abhorrent and go radio silent.

Two weeks later, Mica sets out on a journey outside the walls to find Sasha. However, her ship receives an unknown transmission to self terminate and it crashes right outside the city walls.

Mica pulls herself together and sets out on foot to find her missing partner. In her journey she finds out more about what happened to the world outside. How a corporation takes over a little town slowly. Trapping people in their houses, evicting people when they pleased, killing people in dozens, the parks had dead bodies piled up. Many who were trapped decided to end their lives. It is unclear but probable that the corporation was experimenting on people with bioweapons.

Throughout her journey Mica finds someone calling her on payphones. The voice on the other side would know her. It knows where she is, who she is and who she is looking for. This is the first sign of her starting to lose her mind.

Her quest would take her to a sewer underneath a church, where she goes on a pointless quest to find beating hearts needed to unlock a gate tied together by intestines. Once she's at the end, the tunnels spiral into an unending maze of turns. When she finally makes it out, nothing is there. Her psychosis is getting stronger.

The strongest indication of Mica's spiral into psychosis and her demise is when she reaches the subway station. To proceed further, she has to get a subway ticket to Charon Crossing.

She needed to get this ticket with two gold coins.

Charon's obol is well known from Greek literature. Charon ferries the dead to afterlife and he needs two gold coins as fee, which he takes from the mouth of the dead. This is clearly symbiosing how Mica is venturing deep to her own demise.

Mica goes deeper and finally finds the source of it all. A giant mass of organic substance formed in the shape of tree trunk. She also finds Sasha there, barely alive.

At this point we don't know what's real and what's a result of Mica's psychosis. The organic substance ceases hostility towards Mica and tries to help her. Mica calls Tax for help and tells him to 'follow the light'. She then lies down with Sasha and waits for Tax.

In the next few minutes, Sasha's face becomes less and less recognizable.

I think it's safe to say that Mica is dead or is dying because of exposure to the organic substance and most of the events which happen later in the game is happening inside her head. It's reminiscent of Jacob's Ladder, at the verge of death reality melds with your subconscious mind, making you see what you want to see.

We do not know if Mica actually finds Sasha at the end or if it is her mind consoling her one last time before she meets her eventual demise. Once Mica left the safe walls of the city, the organic substance lured her to itself, showing her what she wanted to see. It was never explained what the organic substance was, maybe it was a result of the experiments the corporation was performing on the citizens of the small town? It is left for interpretation.

Hollowbody is horror at its finest. I absolutely enjoyed my time with it. The world was fleshed out and the lore was excellent.

[deebeeus]

"She's my best friend's gir-ir-irl. But she used to be mine..." - R. Ocasek, 1978.

1959 #Gretsch 6119 in rare western orange (most of these, the ones I have seen anyway, are red), on loan from my buddy @tomgibson3783.

Fun fact: I used to own this guitar before passing it along to Tom a few years ago! It was a lovely guitar, but it is in the right home now. Tom is an hombre who deeply appreciates #ThatGreatGretschSound, while I am a mere dilettante in all things Gretsch. Therefore he makes the superior custodian for "Little Orange", along with his matching 1960 #Gretsch6120 (aka "Big Orange"). 😉

It's great to have the old 6119 back in the house though, albeit just temporarily. Feels like 2017/18 all over again around here!