{"id":7191,"date":"2022-09-28T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/alfred-hitchcock-vertigo-review-uncomfortable-for-all-the-wrong-reasons\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:37:20","slug":"alfred-hitchcock-vertigo-review-uncomfortable-for-all-the-wrong-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/alfred-hitchcock-vertigo-review-uncomfortable-for-all-the-wrong-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo review \u2013 uncomfortable for all the wrong reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 4\/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch; Microids\/Pendulo Studios
<\/strong>Whether it ineffectively subverts or simply misunderstands Hitchcock\u2019s body of work, this video game adaptation does the director a disservice<\/p>\n

Pendulo Studios\u2019 Vertigo begins, just like the 1958 film, with a visual and musical motif of spirals. Round and round they go until you meet author Ed Miller in the worst moment of his life. Ed narrowly survives a car crash, but he loses his wife, Faye and their daughter. Staring down at the wreck of his car in a ravine, Ed suffers a debilitating bout of vertigo, only to relive the suicide of his father shortly after. A little later, you step into the shoes of Dr Julia Lomas, a therapist called in to deal with Ed\u2019s vertigo and why he keeps talking about a wife and child whom no one but him seems to recall.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s called Vertigo, complete with the licence of Hitchcock\u2019s name and likeness, the game makes hamfisted references to the director\u2019s work. Yes, there are birds, yes, someone will be ripping a shower curtain to the side. But when it comes to embodying the spirit of Vertigo itself, Sight and Sound\u2019s greatest film of all time<\/a>, it falls almost comically flat.<\/p>\n

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\nPC, PlayStation 4\/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch; Microids\/Pendulo StudiosWhether it ineffectively subverts or simply misunderstands Hitchcock\u2019s body of work, this video game adaptation does the director a disservice
\nPendulo Studios\u2019 Vertigo begins, just like the 1958 film, with a visual and musical motif of spirals. Round and round they go until you meet author Ed Miller in the worst moment of his life. Ed narrowly survives a car crash, but he loses his wife, Faye and their daughter. Staring down at the wreck of his car in a ravine, Ed suffers a debilitating bout of vertigo, only to relive the suicide of his father shortly after. A little later, you step into the shoes of Dr Julia Lomas, a therapist called in to deal with Ed\u2019s vertigo and why he keeps talking about a wife and child whom no one but him seems to recall.
\nWhile it\u2019s called Vertigo, complete with the licence of Hitchcock\u2019s name and likeness, the game makes hamfisted references to the director\u2019s work. Yes, there are birds, yes, someone will be ripping a shower curtain to the side. But when it comes to embodying the spirit of Vertigo itself, Sight and Sound\u2019s greatest film of all time, it falls almost comically flat. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 4\/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch; Microids\/Pendulo StudiosWhether it ineffectively subverts or simply misunderstands Hitchcock\u2019s body of work, this video game adaptation does the director a disservice Pendulo Studios\u2019 Vertigo begins, just like the 1958 film, with a visual and musical motif of spirals. Round and round they go until you meet author Ed Miller …<\/p>\n

Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo review \u2013 uncomfortable for all the wrong reasons<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}