Infinite Cities

This week we're still in the mid-aughts, and this one's a real doozy. Generally considered to be the best movie tie-in game ever, we've got opinions. In this episode: King Kong Points, Feather doesn't know her own age, the Worst Shotgun In a Videogame, Megapedes and V-Rexes, JAAACK! ~Shoutout zone~ How to install a PS2 emulator and King Kong circa 2005 Random video that Will shared in the postpod...

April fool's is Shrek season. I'm not sure why, I didn't make the rules. It came to me in a dream. April first is when you Shrek, ok? You Shrek. Tradition is important. This is an April fool's episode. The episode is not the April fool's prank. It's a relatively unhinged, but still ICB, minisode with Will and Feather. The April fools are Will and Feather, who played this game, and especially Feath...

ITS PEGGLE In this episode : "I do not like peggle " , spoilers for peggle , the secret fith element of peggle , fandomwiki for peggle , imaginary peggle is incredible , pyramid peggle slander , what happened to peggle ? ~shoutouts zone~ Peggle... 2! Peggle patent How to install a PS2 and run King Kong on your PC (2005 edition) (big ups to Will) ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incred...

This is it - the high water mark of a once-great franchise, the twenty-second game out of twenty-two Mega Men, not counting the many , many , many , many spin-offs. Past this point, just about everything got packed up and cancelled. What happened? Did Keiji Inafune sleep with someone's wife? Or did it just play out the same old tricks over and over, until a few half-hearted attempts to shake thing...

We're the second-best detectives in town, and we're gonna help you with whatever random errand you need. We're also gonna laugh a whole lot. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. In this episode: Just... so much giggling, Being a sticker-person, I'm sorry, I don't know why I said that, Lobster Cop, Happy bugs, Real-life animals, Spoiler egg, The mouse is the correct option, Pirate hooks, Books are, witho...

The gang's all here this week, and we're finishing up our discussion of the zippiest, swooshiest, grapplyest indie of last year, Sanabi! in this episode: please imagine airhorns, landing the mystery, so much talking, high jank tolerance, fuck that car, cool speech bubble effects, endgame theories, heaven and hell, the john wick of robots, flashbacks galore, harmonica questions, somehow pedro pasca...

Nyooom whoosh zoop zwaam zoop woooop woosh woosh woop Nyoooooooom zoop woosh wow wow zooop... It's SANABI! A totally hidden gem that's delivering enough beautiful movement and incredible pixel art to make up for some seriously long dialogues.  Eventually, we'll know what happened in Mago City. in this episode: spiderman should have a mid swing boost, the joy of intertia, instagibbing robots, speed...

We're back for another short little indie game, it's Chicory! Feather and Gary have a delight coloring in the world, while will finds himself stuck painting stars everywhere.  in this episode: art, painting, it's on the map, feather's square era, spooky trees, dad hints, magenta paint bucket, chicory the welder, oops, all hats,  you shouldn't be so hard on yourselfa ~shoutouts zone~ explorable, in...

Is this it? Did we find a game that everyone enjoyed (minus Gary, who wasn't present for the recording)? Or is it just that building a town is fun for the first 2 hours, every time? Join us as we untangle why Against the Storm might be the perfect cozy game for three of us. In this episode: Warcraft 3 is retro, it's (not) Rain World, Mario Kart rubberbanding, 3x speed vs 1x speed, sucking up brick...

Maybe it's because Feather's PC is nearly old enough to qualify as retro, or maybe it's because Against The Storm reminds us of PCs classics like Warcraft 3, or maybe it's just because Will, Karp, and Feather are all retro hardware nerds, but whatever the case - we're talking through the history of video game consoles, starting from the very beginning! In this episode: play pitfall I guess, more b...

HEY ITS REKKA HERE TO WRITE THE EPISODE DESCRIPTION HI FI RUSH IS A MONSTER OF A GAME! YOU WANT MECHANICS? ITS GOT TWICE AS MUCH MECHANICS AS THE NEXT GAME! YOU WANT STORY! YEAH THERES A STORY! YOU WANT MUSIC? WELL FUCKIN' GOD DAMN THERES MUSIC. YOU WANT  PLATFORMING? WE MADE THE PLATFORMING SO BAD YOU GET TWICE AS MUCH PLATFORMING PER PLATFORM! THE ONLY PODCAST THAT CAN HANDLE THIS MUCH GAME IS T...

Old-school roguelikes have a long and rich history of being some of the earliest games that are updated  to this day , so there's some things to talk about. Join Karp and Feather in this mini episode! In this episode: The Berlin Interpretation (is a meme), the potato chips of conversations, don't spend $3 on Rogue, Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, the schoolyard-rumour-game of the 80's computer science sc...

Fall of Porcupine is a story about being a doctor that hits all the beats you might expect. The angry jaded old mentor, the competent and hardworking nurse, the first death on your watch, the finding a place in a small town. It's not humerous (like Scrubs), or charming (like Scrubs) or even super compelling (like Scrubs), but maybe there is something in its gentleness? It is also, notably definite...

We've got a long game this week, and it's for our first turn-based rpg of 2024, Sea of Stars! Feather played like, 5 minutes and proceeds to talk a lot of mad shit before Will, Karp, and Gary gush over every little thing we can.  in this episode: two wooden boards of protagonists, feather knows none of the nouns, combat chat, shoopdawoop, timing attacks and blocks, we'll get to garl, parfaits are...

It's been a pretty wild year, and despite everything that's happened we're glad to still be here, poddin' through it! What better way to mark another year behind us than with a joyful look back at everything we've played? It's the game of the year countdown! In this episode: the Rest In Piss award, we can't count to five, the big countdown, an interlude about bikes, the absolute uncontestable obje...

Control is behind us, and it's been a minute since we've been this conflicted about a game. Is the plot fantasic, or literally nothing? Is the combat great, or kinda tedious? Is this game making a statement, or did they just forget to put in a final boss? We're not sure!  All we know is all games should have a rocket launcher this good. In this episode: getting into it, you don't have enough clear...

It's our first off-week "mini" episode (if you can call a 2 hour runtime mini), so Will and Gary sat down to talk about open world games, the history of the genre, and our experiences playing them! in this episode:  the first open worlds, the legend of zelda, hydlide, sierra online, super mario 64, rareware games, donkey kong 64, teeth gang, assassin's creed, bethesda games, rockstar, do your home...

Control's story is only pretty good. The combat is great, but shallow. It has a few too many extras to be a clean game. And yet, this game rules. Even more than "what is the Hiss?" or "is she talking to like, us us?", the central mystery of Control is "how is this game so awesome". The answer? Hella vibes. Impeccable vibes. Vibes for daaaaaaays. In this episode: I can't tell them about you, doming...

Will is out this week due to the holiday, but the rest of us got together to play a fun little indie about worlds within worlds... within worlds... within worlds? Who knows how deep this little bug world goes.  in this episode - cw alcohol, potluck tips and tricks, orbsception, morbs, orange deserts, we still dont know what's going on here, the correct action jingle, getting yeeted by bosses, real...

Neon White is a stylish, graceful, elegant joy of a game, exactly half the time. The other half the time, it's a cringe fiesta, a fanfic of anime - not a specific anime, but a fanfic about the concept of anime.  Kill the part of you that cringes. In this episode: being super persona, what if rwby had good voice actors, the second best reward in video games is whatever metal is cooler than 'gold' a...

A Little to the Left is a game about organizing items into "pleasing arrangements", but maybe it's a little too peculiar. Can it redeem itself with some clever ideas and a nice hint system? Or are we going to mash the "skip stage" button until the remains of this digital house look as scattered as Feather's room? Let's all learn to love and Leave It Be~ In this episode: Feather doxes her past self...

Feather might be gone, but that'll never be enough to stop us, so this week we played a game from Karp's childhood, and we talked about everything else! in this episode:  2.5d, he's just a creature, beach vollyball, a seven out of ten game, connecting to the ps1, karp's shrine, crimes, a big deal game, moving two dimensionally in a 3d space, generational differences in gaming, '98 was a good year....

Karp didn't write an episode description and so I, Gary, have taken over to deliver you this week's podcast, the conclusion to our Hollow Knight discussion! Karp beat the game, Feather stopped a while ago, Gary wants to keep playing, and Will is (not) dead. We dug a little deeper into the Hallownest this week and we went full spoilers before the end (with a new (temporary) spoiler sound, now that...

Few games achieve as much as they set out to accomplish as Hollow Knight. It's both a near-perfect execution of its genre, and a unique experience with few competitors. It's also so goddamn frustrating. Maybe some of us just need to git good? In this episode: unity being terrible, being a lil guy, arguing about nails, how deep did you get, being lost, favorite bug, death salt, badges, genres, some...

It's just Karp and Gary this week, so we picked a game from the Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine. It's a lovely little musical platforming adventure called Wandersong! in this episode: dancing, you are not the hero, no doubles, a very grumpy stubborn witch girl, ajoining a band, eleven thousand beans, so much dialogue, mermaids, happy kid, they all have pokemon, dreaming of home, gary hates audrey, the...