Castle Couch Podcast

Castle Couch Podcast

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Castle Couch Podcast episodes

  • 079: Double Dragon Yo-Yos
    21:25 - That Dragon, Cancer 27:25 - Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam 35:45 - Oxenfree 40:00 - Dragon's Dogma 44:30 - Lost in HarmonyA direct link to the iTunes page. Many thanks to our friends The JEM for letting us use their music in the show. More info on The JEM can be found on their website: http://www.thejemband.com DONATE TO CASTLE COUCH Please consider donating to Castle Couch. All of our content is handmade with real love — we couldn't do it without you.
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  • 078: The Big Feels
    The Big Feels Award 14:05 - Discussion: The Ideal Video Game 23:25 - Oxenfree 31:00 - Thomas Was Alone 32:40 - Badlands: GOTY Edition 33:30 - Prune 34:50 - HuniePop Get in touch with us direct: [email protected] or on twitter: @raphbennett | @andrewcouto | @booboobouchard |A direct link to the iTunes page. Many thanks to our friends The JEM for letting us use their music in the show. More info on The JEM can be found on their website: http://www.thejemband.com DONATE TO CASTLE COUCH Please consider donating to Castle Couch. All of our content is handmade with real love — we couldn't do it without you.
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  • 076-077: Dr Brolin's Big Score
    18:00 - Oculus Rift and Virtual Reality 24:40 - Pony Island 29:30 - King's Quest: Chapter 2 38:10 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 38:40 - Super Mario Maker 40:00 - Amplitude 43:55 - Hexcells 45:20 - Tap My Katamari 47:15 - DestinyA direct link to the iTunes page. We'd love to read your emails! Send us questions at [email protected] Many thanks to our friends The JEM for letting us use their music in the show. More info on The JEM can be found on their website: http://www.thejemband.com DONATE TO CASTLE COUCH Please consider donating to Castle Couch. All of our content is handmade with real love — we couldn't do it without you.
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  • Game of the Year 2015: Part Four (final) Deliberations

    The final deliberation of 2015. We're lock our site-wide Top 10 list in place. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are all in tow (thanks Disney!)

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  • Game of the Year 2015: Part Three Deliberation
    A direct link to the iTunes page. We'd love to read your emails! Send us questions at [email protected] Many thanks to our friends The JEM for letting us use their music in the show. More info on The JEM can be found on their website: http://www.thejemband.com DONATE TO CASTLE COUCH Please consider donating to Castle Couch. All of our content is handmade with real love — we couldn't do it without you.
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  • Game of the Year 2015: Part Two Deliberation
    Another day, another deliberation. We run down from 18 to 10 games in preparation for ordering our Top 10 list. Yikes! Enjoy, A direct link to the iTunes page. We'd love to read your emails! Send us questions at [email protected] Many thanks to our friends The JEM for letting us use their music in the show. More info on The JEM can be found on their website: http://www.thejemband.com DONATE TO CASTLE COUCH Please consider donating to Castle Couch. All of our content is handmade with real love — we couldn't do it without you.
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  • Game of the Year 2015: Part One Deliberation
    Part One of our deliberation process is here! Our sausage-style podcat begins with a list of 31 games from 2015 The list of nominees in pseudo-order of release date: Life is Strange Grow Home Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate Bloodborne Ori and the Blind Forest Axiom Verge Plug & Play Tales from the Borderlands Lifeline Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Snakebird Splatoon Sunset Her Story The Magic Circle Rocket League Contradiction Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture Flywrench Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Super Mario Maker SOMA Undertale Dropsy The Beginner’s Guide Rock Band 4 Quiplash Cibele Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Rise of the Tomb Raider Fallout 4A direct link to the iTunes page. We'd love to read your emails! Send us questions at [email protected] Many thanks to our friends The JEM for letting us use their music in the show. More info on The JEM can be found on their website: http://www.thejemband.com DONATE TO CASTLE COUCH Please consider donating to Castle Couch. All of our content is handmade with real love — we couldn't do it without you.
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  • Game of the Year 2015: Inside Baseball Award

    Much to everyone else's chagrin, this category exists as an opportunity to use the phrase inside baseball. The idea for this award was to talk about games that explore game culture specific ideas. 

    Runners-upAxiom Verge
    “A sense of discovery I haven’t found in any other Metroidvania lately, because it’s in the same path, but slightly off.”
    — Olivier
    Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
    “You never see Langeskov, the tiger, or the cursed emerald — which is so cool”
    — Anna
    The Magic Circle
    “Making fun of AAA development that [assume] somehow your player might get confused. ”
    — Raphael
    Super Mario Maker
    “I was interacting with this person, across the world, and I get to see their personality.”
    — Olivier
    *drum roll* And the winner is...The Beginner's Guide
    “If the level is not accessible to the player does it exist?”
    — Raphael

    Inside Baseball Award

    Axiom Verge
    The Beginner's Guide (winner)
    Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heistt
    The Magic Circle
    Super Mario Maker

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  • Game of the Year 2015: Choose your own Adventure Award

    Maybe not necessarily a tacit endorsement of binary decision making in games, we still wanted an excuse to talk about the different ways branching storytelling was used in 2015. And of course, who wore it best. 

    Runners-upLifeline
    “You are a character in Lifeline”
    — Raphael
    Tales from the Borderlands
    “The best stuff in Borderlands are the small moments of getting to play the goof your way.”
    — Raphael
    Until Dawn
    “Gamified choice in a way ... that you never feel bad picking the “wrong” choice”
    — Olivier
    Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
    “Because of the scope of the game ... it’s really impressive how it takes player choice and changes it in a way that still works.”
    — Andrew
    *drum roll* And the winner is...Life is Strange
    “Life is Strange walks a tightrope and most developers aren’t willing to do it.”
    — Olivier

    Choose your own Adventure Award

    Life is Strange (winner)
    Lifeline
    Tales from the Borderlands
    Until Dawn
    The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

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  • Game of the Year 2015: Art of Challenge

    A lot of games are hard. Here are some sterling examples of difficulty; games that are using challenge in fantastic ways.

    Runners-upBloodborne
    “brilliant cross-section between western and eastern design, the result [something] that’s almost a throwback, but is still modern enough.”
    — Raphael
    Flywrench
    “The levels are even faster than Super Meat Boy (2010). Levels are [regularly] 5 seconds.”
    — Olivier
    Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate
    “You don’t make mistakes in Monster Hunter, or else you’re going to end up being eaten by monsters, and you don’t want to cause you’re playing with your friends and that’s embarrassing.”
    — Andrew
    Ori and the Blind Forest
    “You start to figure out the choreography ... it feels pretty incredible.”
    — Andrew
    *drum roll* And the winner is...Snakebird
    “I thought I had the hang of this game and then it gave me two snakebirds, and I was like “lol bye. See you never!””
    — Anna
    “I would like more people to experience the blistering anger of these snakebirds”
    — Raphael

    Art of Challenge Award nominees

    Bloodborne
    Flywrench
    Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate
    Ori and the Blind Forest
    Snakebird (winner)

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Castle Couch is a Montreal-based criticism and opinion focused videogame website formed in 2013. Our goal is to poke, prod, caress, and otherwise stir essays and conversation about games. Games have…