Infinite Cities

Prepare yourselves to the spoiler onion of a lifetime! We're back to finish our coverage of Prey (2017) and oh boy, the way our predictions turned out was a shock to all of us!

in this episode: will's disatisfaction, the mod tree, accidental hacking, passive aggressive turrets, smacking shit with a wrench, the big fluffy midgame, alex yu's plan, this bad boy can fit so much fucked up in it, the endgame, the most accurate predictions, alex yu is sans undertale

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

In space, no one can tell you how your wrenches should look... Except for Feather, who hates wrenches /j

We're tackling an excellent immersive sim that got overlooked by many when it came out, and we recommend that you do too. It's Prey (2017) (no relation to Prey (2006) (other than it was supposed to be a sequel)).

CW: there's some food talk in the postpod

In this episode: designer wrenches, push the fat guy, what if this was a roguelike, the thing that goes "whoomp" over and over, turrets are my friend, person who has only played Void Bastards: this reminds me of Void Bastards.

~shoutouts zone~

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff (WARNING: site not secure)

The Garages Farewell Show Concert on Desert Bus 2024

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

sometimes it's nice to just like, tune out and organize shit. or stress about deadlines and organize shit. or be overwhelmed with deliveries and still have to organize shit. It's Wilmot's Warehouse!

in this episode: so many boxes, this is just gary's job, genre catagorization, stock take, the phases of the game, vestibulization, fog of war(ehouse), so many finches, endless mode speculation, the upgrade system, copy that, dungarees, thanks borky, feather's robot story, no one should work in a warehouse, the best date game, the gary bomb, he's blorky now, he craves blood

~shoutouts zone~

end game video

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

Is it enough to be quietly good?

If a game drops no notes and has no flaws, how can you hate it? Perhaps more importantly: you play as a bird, how the eff does Feather hate this one?

(One: I promise it's strictly coincidence all the bird games are also the best games. I have no bias here. Also: I disliked fall of porcupine, so nyeh)

(Two: I don't even hate this one! This is a perfectly fine game! That's the point!)

Anyway, Death's Door is cute and smooth and fun and it even has a tab for shiny things you find and collect and there's cute plants that follow you around and that's good enough. Probably.

It's not like you only have a limited amount of time on this earth.

What? You didn't make a contract with the Lord of Doors?

Well.

That changes things then.

In this episode: DEATH, tunics, uniqueness, dodge rolls, soul counting, modern game design, rock bag at the gift store, science, lil plant friends, story spoilers, hookshot mechanics, it's a fine game, your first video game, Devolver digital, being piloted by a squid.

~shoutouts zone~

Fill The Bag

What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

Minit Fun Racer

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

It's Halloween week, and in an attempt to be spooky, we chose to play a spooky game about a man on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea in the 70s. Some spooky shit happens. And everyone except Gary noped out at the first stealth section. Of course, instead of being scared, I cried, so y'know, you win some, you lose some. 

in this episode: spooky vibes, oil rigs, walking sims, yellow paint, a gooey guy, different flavors of phobia, being scared, being spooky, being scottish, phenomenal voice acting, a different kind of fleshy, get to the choppa', a beeg sluggy man, finley's mistake, gary cries on the pod (again), questioning horror expectations

~shoutouts zone~ 

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

vivid/stasis mentionnnnnnnnnnnn

For a game that was recommended in the comments of a mostly/unrelated meme, this was actually a pretty/banger game. Kind/of. It's definitely a peak rhythm game, with great tracks, great maps, and simple mechanics used extremely interestingly.

Unfortunately, that's not all that's here.

Also: this one's more of a sickos mode than anything because feather hogged the entire game to herself :3 clocking a dumbass 17 hours in over the course of the week! Let that be a review and/or warning!

Join us next week as we play Still Wakes The Deep!

In this episode: other rhythm games, this game is for sickos, the strangest first song, bumper breakdown, enter the node flowchart, difficulty and accessibility options, mind-altering effects, begrudgingly: the visual novel, waking up and choosing violence, not for casuals, trying to unpack the story, interesting ambition and fascinating failures.

~shoutouts zone~

Wires in a Box Twitter

Um Jammer Lammy NOW! Arcade cabinet/nickelodeon torture device

Pyromania Difficulty 15 (aka bullshit) and Pyromania Difficulty 8 (what feather completed)

breakcore mix to disassociate to

Vigenère cipher

vivid/stasis puzzle hints

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

HELP, the Seethe is approaching!  Was this made in 2024 or 2004? Feather doesn't know. It sure is pretty, though. And the music's great. And the gameplay feels just like it did in the early oughts (in a good way). Join us in looking at overly detailed traditional japanese sweets and read all about their history while tensely awaiting the arrival of Gary's groceries.

In this episode: Taiko, Good tutorials, Samurai Crabs, Bonus Objectives, Karps absolute lack of inhibitions, Spooky-ass hands, Replaying the first stage over and over, The Demon Seat.

~Shoutouts zone~

The Demon Seat

Samurai Crab

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

BREACH! Tactical Breach Wizards is a turn based tactical combat puzzle game, driven mostly by its excellent character writing and humorous story telling. This game pulls you in with incredibly well designed levels mixed with its style and banter. Please go play this game its truly excellent In this ep, we mostly gush about how truly excellent this game is in design and writing. Other gridbased tactical combat games, Our favorite wizards and their corresponding dumbass dipshit enemies, Chronomancy, a bad retelling of the story, Anxiety dreams, Rewind features, Confidence Cosmetics, The Single Best DS game, Apples Shoutouts Zone:

Into The Breach BattleTech Fire Emblem 3 Houses Xcom The World Ends With You The Forever Winter

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

Have you ever played the tutorial of a game and gone, "damn, this is gonna slap?" Chants of Sennaar pulls off a magic trick right from the jump, not only inviting the player to manually type in what they think a symbol might mean in a language they cannot understand, but also providing a generous mechanic for the player to "lock in" the correct definition to help with future puzzles. It's a mechanic Feather deliberately avoided participating in, and, she might have been right?

in this episode: language is fascinating, will takes on languages, stupid feather bullshit, stealth sections, note taking, an amalgamation of words, nuance in language, the place of up, a perfectly cromulent sentence, a super rosetta stone, the end of the onion, feather's hubris, so many apples

~shoutouts zone~

Apple Rankings by Brian Frange

Appalachian Apple Hunter Rescues 'Lost' Varieties

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

gear one: drill dozer is one of many games that have charm and execution and cool mechanics but in the end was largely neglected and forgotten because it released after its console's successor was released. like second-greatest nes platformer ever kirby's adventure, this used the console's capabilities to the absolute max - and then some, bolting on a rumble pack to push the tiny little handheld even further.

HIYA! Second Gear! Drill Dozer is an extinct kind of game, the perfect Jank-Ass Platformer that would live in the back of your game case and you'd return to over and over for years, full of secrets and cool mechanics and some genuinely bad parts that don't matter so much when you can skip around the level select looking for that last unexplored area.

HIYA! THIRD GEAR: DRILL DOZER IS A GAME THAT GOES BRRRRRRRRR WHEN YOU SHIFT INTO THIRD GEAR IT IS LARGER THAN ITS TINY HANDHELD HOST AND ALL IS FORGIVEN ONCE YOU START CRUSHING ENEMIES AND PRICELESS ANCIENT ARTIFACTS UNDERNEATH YOUR MIGHTY DRILL

In this episode: The trouble with shoulder buttons, puzzle platformers, golf platforming, the absolute pure power and bliss of shifting up to third gear, big dick truckin,  will time travels, stories from the final boss, putting the game in context (next to shitass movie tie in cashgrabs)

~shoutouts zone~

Words really don't describe how big the UI indicator is

big dick truckn

Motherload

fuck you i'm going underground by Grand Commander

Tail 'Gator

Ice Age (2002 for the GBA) and the REAL Ice Age (2002 for the GBC)

Disco Elysium Demake for the GBC

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Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp!

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You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆