“Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end”
-Chuck Aaron
Thais Weiller on change in the game industry, games as art (or not), and Super Metroid!
It’s our pizza time podcast talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time for Super Nintendo!
What is it actually measuring when we have a number that measures IQ?
What are your top three favorite games on Nintendo Switch?
What is one game you would love to see ported to the portable console?
What release on the Switch would be your absolute dream come true?
Rules are best thought of as the constraints within which freedom, fun, meaning become possible, fun being the exploration of those latent possibilities in things.
If you don’t like peas, it is probably because you have not had them fresh.
-Lemony Snicket
February is the month of love so for this Final Fantasy X pod, I brought on my very own real-lifu waifu, Blythe the White Out Mage!
The City: a space within which infinite stories might take place.
When you walk away you don’t hear me say pleeeeease listen to this Kingdom Hearts podcast episode!
How do you interpret this game? Is your interpretation the correct one? The answer is not black and white. It’s GRIS.
In this, it represents the curious paradox whereby something good in itself becomes terribly disfigured by attracting too much popularity, when beautiful or desirable places are destroyed by the masses of people attracted to their life-changing potential.
Tetris 99 combines the classic puzzle game with modern Battle Royale gameplay. Skeptical? Try it for yourself and get hooked all over again.
Super R-Type is brutal, flashy, explosive, everything that you’d expect from a space shoot ’em up from the 1990s!
Radical Dreamers may have just received an official translation, but fan translators have made the game accessible for years!
So you play EarthBound as part of your class. What are the things that you want to focus on with that class? Well, probably not the ‘Giygas is the cosmic infant of destruction’ theory.
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition proves that the folks over at JoyMasher really do understand retro. This is an authentic retro action experience!
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
-Theodor W. Adorno
‘This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.’
Conrad Roset on interpreting games like GRIS, empathy and minimalism, and taking inspiration from the dreamscapes of Moebius.
Hear us dance this Grim Fandango featuring Brent Mead the ABXY Mage and myself, the stuffy nose mage, talking this game’s unique combination of influences, its concept of the afterlife, its interesting visual design, whether games as art is really the same thing as music as art, the difference between artistic and art form, the nature of jazz, death puns, championing memorable NPCs, personality world building vs exposition, our personal histories with adventure games, floppy disks, how adventure games lost their footing in the internet age and how to keep puzzles challenging, and that satisfying feeling of accomplishment when you complete one, the state of humor in games, and the false need for relief in the form of comedy.
This too, elation and lightness, easy come, easy go, is how friendship feels, along with a mysterious voice in the night, or that person who’s always there, that helping one another to set out on life’s adventures even if it means that your paths should diverge, still establishing a bond living in memory–all this is part of friendship.
Death at the gates again, howling my name.
Can’t greet you today, I’ve a war to win.
-BJ Blazkowicz
FFXIV recently released a new class into their game with their 4.5 patch A Requiem for Heroes, which was a rather surprising announcement considering we weren’t expecting another class until the launch of the next expansion, Shadowbringers, this summer.
As far as character traits, playing in other people’s shoes also lets you temporarily let go of some of the things that you normally in real life are, your personality, and see the world in a different way.
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
If Katamari is an ice cream sundae with all the fixings, Donut County is a scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt with some multicolored sprinkles.
