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For the final game of 2024 we are completing a promise both in game and in real life by playing The Return of the Obra Dinn (2018). Tied with Ghost Trick for Episode 50 we are finally playing the other game about a time travelling detective. With Feather and Karp enjoying a break this week we invite Hen on to talk about this game with us.   In this Episode: Flubbing intros, Hen is here, Feather an...

It's holiday season and we decided to be festive and play a holiday game. Unfortunately, The Grinch showed up to steal away all of our joy for the holiday season with this rather miserable movie tie in game!   in this episode: the grink, defining christmas games, stealth pacman, christmas cars, sexy grinch   ~shoutouts zone~  the grink know your meme   ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the...

Just finished editing this episode! Time to switch from my editing outfit (stylish cyan and blue headphones, soft hoodie with waveform motif, loose cargo pants, audio cables worn as loose necklaces, audio mixer worn on my belt as an accessory, laptop bag, color-coordinated athletic shoes, cropped but fluffy hair) to my copywriting outfit (thick glasses, woven cardigan, quill pin hairclip, cursive-...

Headshot x4 [-0.5s] Banger Soundtrack [-0.8s] Sweet Hitmarkers [-0.5s] Solid VO [-0.4s] Neat 2 Hour Runtime [-1.0s] Final Rank: S I Am Your Beast slaps you in your face and doesn't really stop. It's a perfect two hour shooter, contained perfectly in its runtime. All the speed of Neon White, with none of the anime. It's great. You gotta play it. In this episode: strange scaffold, cinematic typograp...

We decided to prove everyone wrong by showing that Netflix Games actually has good games in its library. This is a short and sweet puzzle game that you should download right now because we know that you have a Netflix account anyway. Seriously, Don't sleep on this one. In this episode: moving the grid, can't pick up anything, stealing Gary's last name, game so demanding it crashes your phone /j, c...

Prepare yourselves to the spoiler onion of a lifetime! We're back to finish our coverage of Prey (2017) and oh boy, the way our predictions turned out was a shock to all of us!   in this episode: will's disatisfaction, the mod tree, accidental hacking, passive aggressive turrets, smacking shit with a wrench, the big fluffy midgame, alex yu's plan, this bad boy can fit so much fucked up in it, the...

In space, no one can tell you how your wrenches should look... Except for Feather, who hates wrenches /j We're tackling an excellent immersive sim that got overlooked by many when it came out, and we recommend that you do too. It's Prey (2017) (no relation to Prey (2006) (other than it was supposed to be a sequel)). CW: there's some food talk in the postpod In this episode: designer wrenches, push...

sometimes it's nice to just like, tune out and organize shit. or stress about deadlines and organize shit. or be overwhelmed with deliveries and still have to organize shit. It's Wilmot's Warehouse!   in this episode: so many boxes, this is just gary's job, genre catagorization, stock take, the phases of the game, vestibulization, fog of war(ehouse), so many finches, endless mode speculation, the...

Is it enough to be quietly good? If a game drops no notes and has no flaws, how can you hate it? Perhaps more importantly: you play as a bird, how the eff does Feather hate this one? (One: I promise it's strictly coincidence all the bird games are also the best games. I have no bias here. Also: I disliked fall of porcupine, so nyeh) (Two: I don't even hate this one! This is a perfectly fine game!...

It's Halloween week, and in an attempt to be spooky, we chose to play a spooky game about a man on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea in the 70s. Some spooky shit happens. And everyone except Gary noped out at the first stealth section. Of course, instead of being scared, I cried, so y'know, you win some, you lose some.    in this episode: spooky vibes, oil rigs, walking sims, yellow paint,...

vivid/stasis mentionnnnnnnnnnnn For a game that was recommended in the comments of a mostly/unrelated meme, this was actually a pretty/banger game. Kind/of. It's definitely a peak rhythm game, with great tracks, great maps, and simple mechanics used extremely interestingly. Unfortunately, that's not all that's here. Also: this one's more of a sickos mode than anything because feather hogged the en...

HELP, the Seethe is approaching!  Was this made in 2024 or 2004? Feather doesn't know. It sure is pretty, though. And the music's great. And the gameplay feels just like it did in the early oughts (in a good way). Join us in looking at overly detailed traditional japanese sweets and read all about their history while tensely awaiting the arrival of Gary's groceries. In this episode: Taiko, Good tu...

BREACH! Tactical Breach Wizards is a turn based tactical combat puzzle game, driven mostly by its excellent character writing and humorous story telling. This game pulls you in with incredibly well designed levels mixed with its style and banter. Please go play this game its truly excellent In this ep, we mostly gush about how truly excellent this game is in design and writing. Other gridbased tac...

Have you ever played the tutorial of a game and gone, "damn, this is gonna slap?" Chants of Sennaar pulls off a magic trick right from the jump, not only inviting the player to manually type in what they think a symbol might mean in a language they cannot understand, but also providing a generous mechanic for the player to "lock in" the correct definition to help with future puzzles. It's a mechan...

gear one: drill dozer is one of many games that have charm and execution and cool mechanics but in the end was largely neglected and forgotten because it released after its console's successor was released. like second-greatest nes platformer ever kirby's adventure, this used the console's capabilities to the absolute max - and then some, bolting on a rumble pack to push the tiny little handheld e...

Sometimes, it's okay to give into nostalgia. Let the bitcrunched trumpets and adorable sprites take you back to your childhood, away to a world full of potential, one full of exciting people and wonder and amazing critters who you can love and travel with and villains who want to kill everyone but are still easily defeatable by fourteen year olds. In this ep, we speculate what happened to pokemon....

Will and Gary are hijacking this week to give us more time with Drill Dozer and also get out our first impressions on Star Wars: Outlaws! I have a feeling we'll probably be getting together about this one again in the future, but don't hold your breath, y'know? in this episode: intros, syndicate relationships, earnest kay, abilities, speeder bike horse, auto save failures, the worst imperial stati...

If you die in the dream you die in real life. Only you can't die in this dream. Just pick up cans and chess pieces and put them down again. And walk on cheese wedges. It's a great game. In this episode: No Will, worse Portal, looking at things from a new angle, soup minute, infinity mirrors, domino doors, playing with expectations, sudden change in what the next game will be. ~shoutouts zone~ yayo...

Jusant, a French word which translates to the English word "ebb" aka the movement of the tide out to sea. The ocean has receeded, bit by bit, until nothing was left but the Great Basin. And emerging from that basin, one valiant climber and their adorable little guy. Where are they going? Why  are they going? What's even up there? Who knows! Find out with Karp, Will, and Gary as we travel up The To...

GHOST TRICK MONTH, BABY. play it  play it PLAY IT To cap this game off - and really bury it - we've brought on resident Ghost Trick expert Bluey (they/them)! The world is not ready for our combined powers, and Ghosts are everywhere and they won't stop Tricking! Things get wildly out of hand, disasters happen, people die, we travel through time, and also we talk about Ghost Trick! Editor's note: th...

It's always fun, following up on a game we've already done an episode about, and because we've already declared it The Month of Ghost Trick, Will and I are here to talk about the second-third of the game. Ghost trick is a game of puzzles, and ghosts, and tricks. We zoom around the screen and lament that we aren't using the original DS stylus to do so. We rewind time again and again and suffer thro...

Have you ever been ghosted? tricked? bamboozled? Well get ready, cause this week we aren't talking about Ghost Trick after all! Karp is away, so Feather, Will and Gary decided to spend some time with an adorable little game jam game recommeded by our friend Sins. It's Updog!   in this episode: walking dogs, filling the doggy dex, inner and outer loops, a very feather-coded dog, way too many dogs,...

Ghost trick was a commercial failure, or at least not enough of a commercial success to make Capcom happy. But I think they knew what they had - that's why they ported it eight times - including two separate Android ports. A large part has got to be that it's a lot weirder and harder to explain than it's more straightforward Pheonix Wright cousin, with strange spatial puzzle elements. Personally,...

You wake up in a stack of hay. The innkeeper lets you have some leftovers for breakfast after you wash yourself in the river. In the neighbouring village there's strong men who are willing to help you remove the fallen tree, and another town has bandit problems. A third town has undead problems. There's 10 days left of summer. What do you do? In this episode: Feather is once again alone in her opi...

Helldivers! We (Will and Feather, at least) are not immune to propaganda, and so we're taking a break from our break from our regularly scheduled content to chat about a game that is both stupider and smarter than it first appears. BAH   BAH      BAH         BAAAHHHHHHH In this episode: other games, don't read the forums, the Joel, helldivers lore is great, I hope you like fire tornadoes dumbass,...