Infinite Cities

Your travels take you to a crossing.

To the east, a narrow path cuts through tangled brush and snarling thorns.

The road north is clear, but you heard rumor horrific goblins wait in ambush.

The west is open plains - clear, but in the distance you can make out the most horrific animal of all: packs of terrifying beasts known as "horses".

Better chance the goblins and the thorns.

In this episode: horses, literal magic, encyclopedia games, we describe a lot of systems but really the game isn't that complicated, please tell me what I am doing wrong, being glarb, Mystik Dan, low fantasy, sight reading a TTRPG, you didn't hang out in the place that hurts you, parade of thing that hurt you, a fun announcement!

~shoutouts zone~

love a good horse novel

Baja Blast (the horse)

we don't talk about it in the ep but it's always a good time to listen to Corb Lund

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

"Walking Sim" as a genre is a bit of a perjorative, but really - that's what we have here. You walk places, and things happen! That's the game. But even in that, there's a ton to talk about. Why is this game about being alone, so full of chatter? Can you find yourself in those dark woods? And perhaps most importantly, why is this walking sim so bad at walking?

In this episode: flapjack, game of telephone, taking care of your knees, not a metroidvania, Lichenland, shoutout to the secret ending, superfire, QWOP.

~shoutouts zone~

Pictures from a reddit user's trip to Shoshone National Forest

Just finished my No-Talking-To-Delilah run

Pitamakan's comment on "Does anyone here actually work in actual firewatch?"

Very good lichen

BART-MAN

NASA's asteroid LARP

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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. 🌆

Pow! Bang! Bop! This week we're FIGHTING! Or, well, we're talking about the potential of fighting, but really we're mostly commiserating about the state of Guilty Gear's story mode. Fighting games are hard and have a high barrier for entry, which is why we basically dance around the idea of it for an hour before throwing in the towel. If any sickos really wanna talk to Feather about fighting games though, you know where to find her. 

in this episode: lets rock, fighting games, feather blaming the beasts, divekick, training dojo, gary's glossary, subspace emissary, shoutouts to loading, feather and gary's wild ride, story mode problems, emotional cruft, discount paramore, rushdown characters, future sickos, roasting lunchables

~shoutouts zone~

feather put together a bunch of shit that never came up in the episode but here they are cause i'm nice:

Why Button Mashing Doesn't Work 

Everything You need to Know About Ramlethal Pressure 

The Entire Guilty Gear Story in 14 Minutes 

Necessary Discrepancy (Ramlethal Theme) 

And the one actually mentioned in the episode:

Guilty Gear Strive Every Faust Overdrive Reaction 

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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. 🌆

Podcast goes round and round. Why? It does not matter. Numbers go up. Hero goes around. In this cold black space, you can only smell the acidity of Salt.

Can you remember samsara?

In this episode: bad hooks, how do we explain this, "fortnite" style colors!??, what are we doing here, cheese strats, idle game comparisons, come before Feather for judgement, this chair gives me health, breakdowns, every game needs a persona-style relationship system.

~shoutouts~

There is nothing here. Perhaps you can remember something someday?

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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. 🌆

The city might not be very big, but wow did they really kitty this kitty!

In this episode: a short hike-alike, feather's list of bugs and grievances, ducklings, the absolute conksuckiest map of all time (positive), genuinely how does this game have such a bad photo mode, TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS, is this a kids game, is being a kids game a cope, wayfinding via lizard, spelling maieaou, a very special guest in the postpod (it's Gary!)

~shoutouts zone~

I'm wearing my hater hat

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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. 🌆

Hello Daniel Mullins. I know you are reading this. You have fallen into my trap, the trap of episode descriptions. Here, you will.. uh... one second.

I'm getting from my producer that I've done a fourth-wall-break ep description before? And it's, quote, "not nearly as fun the third time". Hmm.

I'm sure that's not relevant to my favorite fantastically balanced horror roguelike deckbuilder set in a spooky cabin! I love that good ol' card game.

What's that? Sorry, I'm hearing from my producer again...

Spoiler warning: extended discussion of Inscryption spoilers from basically the top of the episode. Inscryption has a fair number of fun surprises, so if it seems like your kind of thing, it's recommended by three out of four Infinite Cities hosts!

In this episode: yall enjoyed this? the onion is upside down, WILL YOU NEED TO THIN YOUR DECK MY GOD WILL PLEASE, something being bad on purpose is still bad and I know I read sweet bro and hella jeff, nailing my 95 theses of roguelike deckbuilders to the front door of slay the spire's spire, the inscription ARG, I do not care if the OLD_DATA is literally hitler, your first fourth wall break, shoutouts to Dr. Screw, really cool boss mechanics, weird Canada geometry, please be careful with the fourth wall indie devs keep breaking it and we're almost out of walls.

~shoutouts zone~

Point Roberts, Washington

Daniel Mullins Itch.io

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

We're playing Inscryption this week, and before we get into it, Big Thanks to everyone who never spoiled this game for anyone playing. If you haven't played Inscryption before, what are you doing here? Go play and come back, seriously, we're spoiling stuff that you're better off not knowing when you go into the game!

in this episode: not the whole onion, roguelike deckbuilders, creating cards, boss puzzles, escape room mystery, teeth teeth teeth, slay the spire, so many bones, a wall of flesh, get squirrelled idiot, new game mode, Luke Carder, gba color inscryption, the blood and the bones, card-based platformer prediction, no spoilers!

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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. 🌆

We finally return to Spiritfarer to send off every last animal on this boat, whether we want to or not.

WARNING: Full Spoilers Ahead!

In this episode: Will disappears - will you notice it?, I cant believe Atul would do this, is a basilisk just a lizard, The Character Door, perfectly timed Wilhelm Scream, the only thing that makes Karp sad, Feather rants/gushes about Eve Online

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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. 🌆

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Taco De Mayo 4ever after! If you missed it, we took a second run down King of the Castle, a very excellent stream / party / role-playing(?) game where one person (Feather) got to rule a kingdom with an iron throne while a bunch of wretched losers (Karp, Gary, Will, and friends) all tried to harsh her vibes and ruin her chance at wonderful tyranny.

Anyway, it's a good game, and good games are what we do here! So we're sitting down to talk about it!

In this episode: WOULD MY IDIOT NEPHEW PLEASE FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF, the chiefs of the north are up to it again (when are they not!), this episode is an act of hubris but it shall go unpunished because our listeners have a military score of two, this game would have exploded in 2020, unseen balance.

~shoutouts zone~

Rabbit and Steel

that's it? we didn't do a lot of shoutouts this episode

that's ok so I'm not sure if anyone reads these?

Lmk if you actually look at the shoutouts zone

uh

there was this ancient fish called Sacabambasbis

it had a really great recreation? 

anyway someone made a song and someone else made an even more fire english cover

hope you liked that

thanks for listening and also reading <3

bye

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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. 🌆

[click]

Mr Coo gestures towards a strange play button

[click]

Mr Coo pushes the button; chaos ensues

in this episode: hoping for more pieces, point and click, freddi fish and pajama sam, leaning into weirdness, driving mr coo, menus, bugs, a wiggly boy, distinct personalities of pieces, hints, goblin guy is cool, distilling it down, the plunger bike seat, cw alcohol: the wine pairing, mr coo: the wingman, la linea, big nose the little man, our weekly scheduled interrupting will time, the final puzzle, shoutouts to frog detective, taco de mayo

~shoutouts zone~

Las aventuras de Mr Coo 

Losing our Head with Naco Rodriguez 

La Linea 

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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. 🌆