Spiritfarer is an adorable little game, that on first inspection, looks like a fun, cozy little friend-em-up like Stardew Valley and friends. This is a lie. Spiritfarer is actually a coldly calculated trap, designed to lure you into making friends with friendly, interesting, deep characters explicitly so it can take them away from you, and then remind you what you've lost.

The hug button isn't a cute fun thing - it's a necessity.

Content warning: discussion of death and loss, spoilers for the general gist of spiritfarer throughout, extended discussion of the backstory of the first spirit (Gwen) after a verbal warning

In this episode: immediately stepping into the genre thunderdome, wrestling with the spoiler onion, the big fluffy owl in the sky, holes where people used to be, slopemaxxing, taking the bus, an entire story in a two line aside on the wiki, cats should be cat, blaseball, and extra long post pod becuase lot of things have been happening!

~shoutouts zone~

Look at how fluffy this deer is

Dosh Doshington: Cogmind and the Future of Roguelikes

Join us in playing Cogmind! And by "join us", I mean "join Feather", and by "join", I mean "please get her to stop playing cogmind it is 3am she has to finish this podcast what do you mean you were only going to play one floor while the episode was uploading that was two entire runs ago dumbass"

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This week we're still in the mid-aughts, and this one's a real doozy. Generally considered to be the best movie tie-in game ever, we've got opinions.

In this episode: King Kong Points, Feather doesn't know her own age, the Worst Shotgun In a Videogame, Megapedes and V-Rexes, JAAACK!

~Shoutout zone~

How to install a PS2 emulator and King Kong circa 2005

Random video that Will shared in the postpod

Longplay of King Kong for mobile phones

Noodle's video on King Kong

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April fool's is Shrek season. I'm not sure why, I didn't make the rules. It came to me in a dream. April first is when you Shrek, ok? You Shrek. Tradition is important.

This is an April fool's episode. The episode is not the April fool's prank. It's a relatively unhinged, but still ICB, minisode with Will and Feather. The April fools are Will and Feather, who played this game, and especially Feather, who played a lot of this game. Relatively speaking. On April first. And then Will went entirely AWOL because of a discord bug, meaning she crunched playing Shrek Hassle Among Some Castle for literally no reason. No reason at all.

Except tradition. Which is important.

In this episode: leap pads, linux, big head mode, shrek, donkey knows he's in a shovelware platformer, getting good (but at what cost), infinite pits, catch the farquaad mascot, 3.5 / 5, the high water mark of Toyota engineering.

~shoutouts zone~

Last episode (which is not released yet) I made a correction, I would like to make a correction to that correction, Fandom wiki is in fact performing a valuable service because GameFAQs would not host a list of every Leapfrog game featuring The Letter A (character)

Hackaday articles featuring the IM-me girltech messenger device

Shrek: Hassle above any Castle cover art

Longplay of Shrek: Hassle inside that Castle

Shrek: Hassle involving a Castle Guide and FAQ by Myke

Shrek: Hassle with Castle blurb from Nintendo Power

Disney's Treasure Planet Longplay

The high point of Toyota Engineering, killed by safety before it could die historic on the Fury Road (the Fury Road being on a mountain on a fjord in norway)

Absolutely beautifully dirty AW11 with no bumper but a lot of hardware

The TRD tricolor is still perfect

You could own this very very angry yaris full of bees if the NTSA wasn't COWARDS

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ITS PEGGLE In this episode: "I do not like peggle", spoilers for peggle, the secret fith element of peggle, fandomwiki for peggle, imaginary peggle is incredible, pyramid peggle slander, what happened to peggle? ~shoutouts zone~

Peggle... 2!

Peggle patent

How to install a PS2 and run King Kong on your PC (2005 edition) (big ups to Will)

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This is it - the high water mark of a once-great franchise, the twenty-second game out of twenty-two Mega Men, not counting the many, many, many, many spin-offs. Past this point, just about everything got packed up and cancelled.

What happened? Did Keiji Inafune sleep with someone's wife? Or did it just play out the same old tricks over and over, until a few half-hearted attempts to shake things up just felt awkward and sad? Let's find out!

In this episode: surprise! the person who suggested mega man is a fan of mega man,  the last in a dynasty, a genuinely good rerelease, just a tad bit of severe racism, feather: do you want to talk about the story? karp: *deep sigh*, engage crunch mode, mega men.

~shoutouts zone~

WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOOOORRRR

ChipCheezumLPs: Mega Man Legends

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We're the second-best detectives in town, and we're gonna help you with whatever random errand you need. We're also gonna laugh a whole lot. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that.

In this episode: Just... so much giggling, Being a sticker-person, I'm sorry, I don't know why I said that, Lobster Cop, Happy bugs, Real-life animals, Spoiler egg, The mouse is the correct option, Pirate hooks, Books are, without exception, factually inaccurate.

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The gang's all here this week, and we're finishing up our discussion of the zippiest, swooshiest, grapplyest indie of last year, Sanabi!

in this episode: please imagine airhorns, landing the mystery, so much talking, high jank tolerance, fuck that car, cool speech bubble effects, endgame theories, heaven and hell, the john wick of robots, flashbacks galore, harmonica questions, somehow pedro pascal is here, chain arms are cool

~shoutout zone~

the bad ending 

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Nyooom whoosh zoop zwaam zoop woooop woosh woosh woop

Nyoooooooom zoop woosh wow wow zooop...

It's SANABI! A totally hidden gem that's delivering enough beautiful movement and incredible pixel art to make up for some seriously long dialogues. 

Eventually, we'll know what happened in Mago City.

in this episode: spiderman should have a mid swing boost, the joy of intertia, instagibbing robots, speedrunning, a lot of chatter for a fast paced action platformer, kinda weird dialogue, where is it going (and hoping it gets there), predictions, electronics.

~shoutouts zone~

It really makes you feel like spiderman (videogamedunkey)

SANABI in 24:53 by zazaboon (spoiler warning)

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We're back for another short little indie game, it's Chicory! Feather and Gary have a delight coloring in the world, while will finds himself stuck painting stars everywhere. 

in this episode: art, painting, it's on the map, feather's square era, spooky trees, dad hints, magenta paint bucket, chicory the welder, oops, all hats,  you shouldn't be so hard on yourselfa

~shoutouts zone~ explorable, interractive map of chicory 

Dunkey's Yakuza video  Best Game Animation of 2023

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Is this it? Did we find a game that everyone enjoyed (minus Gary, who wasn't present for the recording)? Or is it just that building a town is fun for the first 2 hours, every time? Join us as we untangle why Against the Storm might be the perfect cozy game for three of us.

In this episode: Warcraft 3 is retro, it's (not) Rain World, Mario Kart rubberbanding, 3x speed vs 1x speed, sucking up bricks, Dwarves/beavers, city-builder boss fights, Aunt Lore-i.

~shoutout zone~

blame Feather for this

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