Rose of Meat

The brooding pace and relative silence that characterize writer-director Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood is more evocative of his standout debut film Pig than it is his far more mainstream A Quiet Place: Day One, making this elegiac but brutal period piece his most niche and least accessible film yet. Still, its heady mix of mournful drama and murderous action certainly distinguish it from the litany of other Robin Hood films in existence.

It's a shojo anime fever dream with a level of character writing I didn't know I could find in a farm sim.

It's 1:50am, and a purple cat throws several logs of wood at my head as I run to bed, exhausted from a long day battling sentient lanterns in the mines. At 6am the grind begins again, but not before a morning chat with the amnesiac dragon statue who lives down the garden path. It's a hard life for adventurers in Fields of Mistria. It's even harder as an adventurer-turned-farmer, because alongside fighting monsters underground and learning the secrets of dragon magic, the local feudal lady has put in a request for relief crops. As your new homestead was granted in exchange for your help, it's t