The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

You think this is a dream? Well then maybe it’s time to wake up? With a complex storyline that chronologically twists around its predecessor, Dennaton […] The post Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number – Cane and Rinse No.431 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Great, just great. You’re on an exciting adventure with Mario. Talk about unfair.” Scheduled for the game’s 20th birthday, in this podcast we look back […] The post Paper Mario – Cane and Rinse No.430 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Gather round all of you who would listen.” Years prior to Sony San Diego becoming the MLB: The Show studio, the team made its debut […] The post The Mark of Kri – Cane and Rinse No.429 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Only when we let strangers in can we find new ways to be ourselves.” If you want to be the last player standing in Shibuya’s […] The post The World Ends With You – Cane and Rinse No.428 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

Further piratical shenanigans abound as the dread ship Cane and Rinse returns to the Caribbean sea to break The Curse of Monkey Island. Leon, Charlotte, Ryan and returning guest Dan Clark investigate Monkey 3’s change in authorship, tone and art, and bottled messages wash up from multiple contributors, who have a lot to say on the atmosphere of the piece, and its relationship to its predecessors....

“Coo coo. (I hear you’ve been busy, Mario.)” Create or Play? That is the big question asked of anyone who starts a game in the […] The post Super Mario Maker series – Cane and Rinse No.426 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“The End” It’s been fully four decades since Dave Theurer turned his apocalyptic nightmares into an arcade game. Missile Command told a darker story than […] The post Missile Command – Cane and Rinse No.425 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“You don’t need a potion to win me over! You already have!” Steel thy shovel….. again! We’ve discussed Yacht Club Games’s Shovel Knight before, but […] The post Shovel Knight DLC – Cane and Rinse No.424 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

Everything about our latest single format special podcast is just super. Leon, Brian, Michiel and returning guest Ben Cartlidge - along with a slew of contributors from the Cane and Rinse community - remember Nintendo's initially reluctant but ultimately triumphant foray into the 16-bit market. The Super Famicom/SNES/SNEZ/Ess-Enn-Ee-Ess boasts perhaps one of the most glittering libraries of any ma...

“How many more bones would you crush? How many lives will you destroy in pursuit of what you call justice?”  Concluding our Batman: Arkham series […] The post Batman: Arkham Knight – Cane and Rinse No.423 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Through recondite arts, the Alchemists had created Shardbinders.” The fruits of substantial crowdfunding and the labour of a supergroup of game devs were harvested in […] The post Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon / Ritual of the Night – Cane and Rinse No.422 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Well, would you look at that?” Wrapping up our Uncharted coverage, for now at least, we end up at standalone adjunct, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. […] The post Uncharted: The Lost Legacy – Cane and Rinse No.421 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Shoot The Core!” The venerable side-scrolling space shoot ’em up series Gradius celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2020. Leon, Michiel, Ben Cartlidge and Dan Clark run […] The post Scramble and the Gradius series – Cane and Rinse No.420 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“All that matters now is what we do next” What does it take to truly be a person? Is it how you were created? What […] The post Detroit: Become Human – Cane and Rinse No.419 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“We’re playin’… We’re playin’… We’re playin’…” Whether it’s Guitar Hero by way of Fruit Ninja or a chance to live out the Star Wars Kid […] The post Beat Saber – Cane and Rinse No.418 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Nice entrance. Solid eight out of ten… Nine out of ten.” Welcome to “Just the Facts” with J. Jonah Jameson. Alerting you to the threats […] The post Marvel’s Spider-Man – Cane and Rinse No.417 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“The invading Snowmads have locked Donkey Kong Island in a deep freeze, and it’s up to the Kongs to thaw things out!” Our run of […] The post Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Cane and Rinse No.416 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“We make the world what it is by what we do. All of us.” Bikers vs Zombies may sound like a late night made-for-TV movie, […] The post Days Gone – Cane and Rinse No.415 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Life. Afterlife. Real. Virtual. Dream. Nightmare. It’s a thin line.” Before the deluge of Metroidvania type games came Axiom Verge. Thomas Happ’s intriguing alternate reality […] The post Axiom Verge – Cane and Rinse No.414 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Yeah, I know.” After his work on Monument Valley, Ken Wong scaled the heights of creating his own studio, Mountains. With the publishing expertise of […] The post Florence – Cane and Rinse No.413 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“You come to us, like a snake in the grass, here… in a city of lies, you… are the biggest liar of all”  Techland’s five […] The post Dying Light – Cane and Rinse No.412 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

In our latest single format special, Leon, Chris, James and Leah review "The Walkman of the 21st Century", Sony's PlayStation Portable. Even if the PSP didn't quite reach the iconic status of its pocket cassette player, the sleek little powerhouse did last for almost a decade and shifted around 80 million units. We remember its hardware pros and cons, as well as a decent cross-section of its 1300+...

Can shadows die? Can they die twice? And what is a Loaded Spear actually useful for? James, Jacob, Jon and Josh try to answer these questions and more as they explore Sengoku-period Japan in FromSoftware’s action-focussed love letter to Japanese folklore and shinobi games like Tenchu and Otogi. This is Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

“Let’s give DK our biggest Kong-gratulations!” In our latest show on Nintendo’s necktied primate, we swing back to the mid-2000s to go ape with Donkey […] The post Donkey Kong Jungle Beat – Cane and Rinse No.410 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“He’s a… whatchacallit. A fisting artist.” As recommended by fans of the series, we begin our Japanese organised crime odyssey at its chronological beginning – […] The post Yakuza 0 – Cane and Rinse No.409 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .