Episode 51 - Red Angel

Critical Distance: Keywords in Play

This month on the Critical Distance Confab, Angelina Bonilla better known as Red Angel was kind enough to come on.

Red Angel started off as a writer for online publications. However, after some time there, she wanted to for a while to turn her efforts to video. Ignorant of the wider YouTube critical community, she just started her channel. She began her Late Night Ponderings series as an extension of the editorials she wrote for Noobfeed and Game Skinny, but they evolved beyond the constraints of editorial mandates and game journalism "style" into something more personable. And instead of focusing on larger titles, she found she had little to add and instead chose to use her time critiquing smaller indie games for the most part. We talk about her writing sounding "like poetry," wanting to bring different perspectives into this sphere, and owls for some reason.

SHOW NOTES

Red Angel YouTube Channel

Late Night Ponderings: Life Is Strange's Ending and Reception

Death and Photography in Life is Strange

Oxenfree The Duality of Grief in Clarissa and ALex

Why I Cover Indie Games

Late Night Ponderings: Similar Sinews

Angelina Bonilla Author's Page - Noobfeed

Angelina Bonilla Author's Page - Game Skinny

Red Angel Patreon

Opening Theme: 'Close' by The Alpha Conspiracy

Closing Theme: 'Wishing Never' by The Alpha Conspiracy