The Short Game

155: West of Loathing (with guest host Gary Butterfield)

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Gary Butterfield of Duckfeed.tv joins us to discuss West of Loathing, the hilarious stick-figure open-world RPG by Asymmetric. West of Loathing originally released last summer on Steam, but it recently launched as a console exclusive on Nintendo Switch. This is an extremely funny game, but it also respects your time in ways that other RPGs and open world games could learn a lot from. Thanks to Gary for a great discussion.

West of Loathing is available on Steam for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and on the Nintendo Switch eShop, for $11. Expect it to take around 10 hours to complete. Spoiler break at [00:56:36].

What’s making us happy this week?

  • Laura: Korean reality show The Genius
  • Nate: The Saint Louis Pride Parade
  • Raygan: Mario Tennis Aces
  • Shane: Hive
  • Gary: John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City

    • Find Gary’s work at Duckfeed.tv. Gary’s newest podcast, Heartbeat City, is at Heartbeatcity.city.

    Past Short Game episodes with Gary:

    • 26a: The Walking Dead
    • 26b: The Walking Dead
    • 47: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

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      Your hosts this week were:

      • Raygan Kelly – @raygank
      • Shane Kelly – @8bitShane
      • Nate Heininger – @natestl
      • Laura Nash – @laurajnash
      • Gary Butterfield – @garybuh
        • (00:00) - West of Loathing
      • (44:54) - What's making you happy this week?
      • (56:36) - Spoiler Break
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