u/tjmincemeat

A lot of discussion has been taking place over the last few days regarding who the villain of Obsession truly is. Is it Bear? (Yes) Is it Freaky Nikki? (Also yes). Is it the real Nikki? (No and it’s fucking weird that people actually try to argue that). However I believe we are foolishly focusing on the wrong characters solely because they take up the majority of screen time. I believe the film’s ultimate villain, the true master mind behind everything is…Sandy!

Look, we all know Cats are evil: Katz from Courage the Cowardly Dog, the Cat demons from All Dogs go to Heaven, the fact that the movie Cats (2019) was ever made in the first place, etc. So I believe Sandy purposefully orchestrated the events of the entire movie using her own suicide to set things into motion. And we get our evidence for this very early on.

Right after Bear makes his wish “freaky” Nikki mentions that HER cat just died before quickly correcting to Bear’s cat having just died. Many mistakenly believe that this is whatever is possessing Nikki trying to mimic the real Nikki and not getting it quite right. But I saw this “slip up” for what it truly was. Undeniable, irrefutable proof that Sandy was living a double life as BOTH Bear AND Nikki’s pet cat, sneaking out at random intervals to occupy both spaces at different times.

“But, but TJ” I hear you say “Sandy was dead the whole time! How could she be the villain.” You silly goober, Sandy PLANNED TO DIE FROM THE BEGINNING. She truly exemplifies hater energy. Giving her own life to take out both of her owners. She would have known that Bear has feelings for Nikki, and she would have known that Nikki wants Bear at trivia night so they can win. So she deliberately became bipedal, used her paws to carefully open the child safety cap on the medication, and staged her own death scene.

She knew that this would make Bear apprehensive about going to trivia so Nikki would have to call him to convince him. She would have also known that Nikki is clumsy and can’t multitask well, thus Bear would hear her drop her necklace down the drain and wind up at that store to purchase the one wish willow and make his wish, setting their inevitable downfall into motion.

“But TJ,” I hear you ask again “how would Sandy have known about the one wish willows?” Well, if you accept the above to be true, which I have just laid out all the ways it objectively is, then the only logical conclusion is that SANDY WAS ACTUALLY LIVING A TRIPLE LIFE AS THE STORE CLERK’S SECRET PET AS WELL.

Therefore Sandy knew Bear would pathetically not be able to ask out Nikki. She knew he’d be drawn to the one wish willow and the wish would go awry quickly. She knew that Nikki would get possessed and that they would both eventually be destroyed by the wish. And why did she do all this? Fuck if I know, Bear probably forgot to feed her once or something. Cats are evil man.

TL;DR: Sandy is an evil mastermind.

Obviously Shotguns are iconic in the world of gaming. You’ve got the SSG from Doom, the Sawed off from Blood, the Halo Shotgun, the list goes on.

And Shotguns are a staple in survival horror from Resident Evil and Silent Hill to all things in between. Often loading up your shotgun with your last shell to pray that you kill the monster before you can be a highlight of any survival horror game. So I’m wondering what some of your favorites are. Here are some of mine:

Darkwood - Double Barrel Shotgun: my only complaint is that you can only get this in chapter 2. Other than that, it’s my favorite weapon in the game. It’ll kill a chomper from full health and has another shell loaded in case you miss, unlike the single shot shotgun. However, the two shell capacity still encourages saving ammo unlike the pump action shotgun. When you know what you’re doing you can make this thing almost as soon as you reach chapter 2 and it’ll serve you well until the endgame.

Tormented Souls 2 - Shotgun: this shotgun is fantastic at letting you utilize the new hotkey mechanic to seamlessly switch weapons with the dpad. Blast an enemy to knock them down and give em a smack with your hammer to finish them off. This one makes it on here due to this game’s upgrade system. What’s better than one barrel? 2 Barrels! What’s better than 2 barrels? 3 barrels of course! Upgrading this thing fully feels do goddamn good and really makes you prepared to face the horrors that await around the next corner.

Resident Evil - Shotgun: I mean it had to be on here. What could I say about this gun that hasn’t already been said already? Blast a zombie apart or knock it down and knife it to conserve ammo. It’s the grandfather of survival horror shotguns for a reason. Hail to the King baby.

Evil Within 2 - Double Barrel Shotgun: Ok, at this point you can probably tell that I am biased towards a good ole’ side by side double barrel shotgun. How can I not be? Evil Dead 2 is my favorite movie of all time and Doom Eternal is my favorite game of all time. Nothing beats a good ole fashion boomstick. I’ll admit this probably isn’t the best shotgun in this game, but it’s by far my favorite. The automatic double tapping it does with each trigger pull just send all the dopamine to my brain.

“Guess again!” said Killy McJesus and he killed everybody.