The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

For our milestone 500th podcast we investigate 2019's multi award-winning critical darling, Outer Wilds - an ambitious debut title to say the least. Leon, Chris, Josh, Tom and community correspondents spin off into space, with its cavernous planets, quantum puzzles and questions on the nature of existence itself.

In the penultimate podcast of our tenth year, we mark the 30th anniversary of Eric Chahi's Another World. Leon, Chris, Karl, Tony and community contributors recall being blasted from the comfort of their swanky science bunker to the cold, dark, tentacle filled water of an alien realm, and beyond. Furthermore we talk about the game's remarkable prescience and legacy, as well as a little on its SEGA...

Leah, Josh, Brian and Ryan discuss Austin Jorgensen's post-apocalyptic role-playing videogame LISA: The Painful.

In a genre-defying podcast, we bend at the knees and keep our backs straight in order to deliver our take on Hideo Kojima's first post-Konami game, Death Stranding. Leon, Brian, Leah and a swathe of correspondents (with wildly differing opinions), get into the loopy lore and many mechanics of this unusual, intriguing and divisive title.

The 'difficult second album' middle child of the NES Castlevania trilogy. Leon, Josh, Leah, Michiel and community contributors raise their eyebrows at the solutions to some of the puzzles made famous by the notoriously byzantine Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.

Moon Studios' magical Metroidvania sequel demands our attention in this follow up to our Ori and the Blind Forest show from some five years ago. Ori and the Will of the Wisps boasts sumptuous new graphics, significantly revised gameplay and a lavish new score, but does it tell the same old story? Leon and a vintage Cane and Rinse panel of James, Josh and Ryan - along with contributors from the com...

When a beloved game is remade, there’s always the question: what will it be when it comes out...again? So many people have been asking that same question since the original Final Fantasy VII came out in 1997 that the long (long, long) awaited Final Fantasy VII Remake couldn’t help but be a pretty big deal. But is it really a remake? Or a sequel? Or something in between? Join Leah, Brian, James, an...

Regrettably late for Halloween and the game's 15th anniversary (as well as the fifth anniversary of its last-gen rerelease), we tardily tackle Capcom's zombie-infested mall simulator, Dead Rising. Leon, Jon, Karl and community contributors ruminate upon whether the notoriously bounce-offable 2006 title was in fact ahead of the curve, with its RPG roguelite elements and emphasis on learning by doin...

Tony's the host this week aided and abetted by Karl, Jon and Darren as they switch on their black lights to forensically pick over what's left of Monolith Productions' 2005 first-person survival horror Condemned: Criminal Origins

25 years have passed since a fresh, if flat-face Lara Croft made her first graceful bow. Leon, Jon, Karl and community contributors swan dive into the cavernous depths of her debut adventure, the original Tomb Raider.

Five years after the release of Metroid, Gunpei Yakoi and the team at Nintendo R&D1 sought to utilise the then new Gameboy platform to bring the graphics and explorative gameplay from the original NES title to the new handheld device. Join Rich, Leah and returning contributor Johannes Nichell as they discuss Samus’s second mission, the eradication of the Metroid life forms and the Legacy of Metroi...

In our latest single platform, one console podcast we cast our minds back to the mid-2000s and Sony's entry into the seventh generation. Leon, Karl, Ryan and Thomas dust off their PS3's and, along with contributions from the Cane and Rinse community, debate the strengths and weaknesses of this once highly desirable piece of hardware. We also look at the machine's infrastructure, UI and peripherals...

Our seventh and penultimate - at least until they make a new game - Mario Kart podcast sees us arrive at the 3DS entry. Mario Kart 7 landed a frightening 10 years ago, to great reviews and healthy sales, but what is its legacy? Leon, Darren, Leah, Michiel and community correspondents discuss 3D sliders, circle pads, gyro controls and first person modes.

“YOU PLAYED THE GREATEST ROLE IN THIS STORY.” Recording on the day of the 35th anniversary of the game’s launch in Japan, we embark upon […] The post Castlevania – Cane and Rinse No.488 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

In this issue of the Cane and Rinse podcast, we cover Everything. Really no other way to say it. Ryan Hamann is joined by Jesse Fuchs, Brian Edwards, and Thomas Quilfeldt to discuss David OReilly's unusual 2017 life and philosophy simulator.

Artyom's search for the truth about the world outside Moscow picks up steam in the third of 4A Games' Metro trilogy. Leon, Josh, Leah, Tony and community contributors journey beyond the confines of the wasteland in our Metro Exodus podcast.

While MicroProse didn't exactly break the mould with the original Civ, they certainly kept hold of the mould once it was made. Sid Meier's Civilization (30 years ago) and Sid Meier's Civilization II (five years later), offered deep and endlessly compelling yet accessible aeon-spanning strategy that would become a multi-generational franchise. Leon, Chris, Josh and community contributors keep takin...

So simple on the surface, Taito's cutesy single screen puzzle platformer hides abyss-like depths. Leon, Chris, Michiel and community correspondents reflect upon three and a half decades of fizzy, frothy and fun arcade action.

Put on your Beefbrain Shield Pro. We're going back to 1999 to rediscover (2019's) bizarre retro internet mystery Hypnospace Outlaw. Counselor Ryan is joined by Josh "SquisherZ" Garrity, The Chowder Jon, and Sean "Seepage" Bell to enforce the rules of Hypnospace, track down malicious software, and solve the mystery of the Smoulder Boulder once and for all.

It's time for SNK's team battle-focused fighter to shine in our The King of Fighters series podcast. Leon Cox is joined by Michiel ‘NOOD HOOG’ Kroder as well as KoF scenesters/players/commentators Chris ‘Hellpockets’ Fields and (recent International Video Game Hall Of Fame Inductee) Ryan ‘Prodigal Son’ Hart to review 27 years of aggressive and crunchy 2D 3-on-3.

Sometimes we cover a game that lasts barely the length of one of our podcasts, and other times we cover a JRPG like Xenoblade Chronicles. Leon, Leah and guest Ellie Rhodes - along with contributors from the Cane and RInse community - immerse themselves on what starts out as a simple revenge mission and eventually (90 to several hundred hours later) becomes an exploration into the very nature of ex...

To mark the fearless space hunter Samus Aran's 35th anniversary we embark upon what will be another long-running series of podcasts covering the Metroid games. Leon, Leah, Michiel, Rich and community contributors begin the mission with perhaps still the most desolate and daunting title in the franchise, the 1986 Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System's original Metroid.

Our third Yakuza series podcast brings us up to the second title in the original series, as well as its 'extreme' 2017 remake. Leon, Brian, Leah, Michiel and community contributors unpick and unpack this third-person crime fiction melodrama absurdist romance/bromance soap opera RPG brawler - with minigames - sequel, Yakuza 2, and Yakuza Kiwami 2.

On its one year anniversary, it is time to revisit the isle of Tsushima. Brian, Leah, and Ryan wax poetic about Lord Sakai's transformation into the titular Ghost, examining if Sucker Punch's open world offering lived up to the hype. Enjoy the verbal duels of the panel, with slightly fewer decapitations.

Over jumping out of SEGA's arcade heyday comes the mighty SEGA Rally Championship. Leon, Karl, Michiel and community correspondence buckle up for a bumpy tour of the blistering original, as well as its small selection of sequels and successors.