Infinite Cities

Will is out this week due to the holiday, but the rest of us got together to play a fun little indie about worlds within worlds... within worlds... within worlds? Who knows how deep this little bug world goes. 

in this episode - cw alcohol, potluck tips and tricks, orbsception, morbs, orange deserts, we still dont know what's going on here, the correct action jingle, getting yeeted by bosses, really cute little guys, favorite orbs, becoming one with the bug, changing things up a bit, miniature cities

~shoutout zone~ 

New Republic Archives is coming back December 7th!

Join us next week in starting Control!

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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 cohost! 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. 🌆

Neon White is a stylish, graceful, elegant joy of a game, exactly half the time. The other half the time, it's a cringe fiesta, a fanfic of anime - not a specific anime, but a fanfic about the concept of anime. 

Kill the part of you that cringes.

In this episode: being super persona, what if rwby had good voice actors, the second best reward in video games is whatever metal is cooler than 'gold' and the best reward is beating Karp, does this game need wall jumps, the worst anapurna game.

~shoutouts zone~

Neon White Intro

I'm using tilt controls!

Games That Make The Alien Human

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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. 🌆

A Little to the Left is a game about organizing items into "pleasing arrangements", but maybe it's a little too peculiar. Can it redeem itself with some clever ideas and a nice hint system? Or are we going to mash the "skip stage" button until the remains of this digital house look as scattered as Feather's room? Let's all learn to love and Leave It Be~

In this episode: Feather doxes her past self, resilient organizing, peeking at hints, reloading your q-tip drawer one q-tip at a time, leaving things be, insufficient cat, lovely leaves, being too immersed.

~shoutouts zone~

I Love Hue Too

Unpacking

Join us in playing our next game, Neon White!

31" Kraken The Giant Squid Plush Stuffed Animal Toy

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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 cohost! 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. 🌆

Feather might be gone, but that'll never be enough to stop us, so this week we played a game from Karp's childhood, and we talked about everything else!

in this episode:  2.5d, he's just a creature, beach vollyball, a seven out of ten game, connecting to the ps1, karp's shrine, crimes, a big deal game, moving two dimensionally in a 3d space, generational differences in gaming, '98 was a good year... for games, oh shit klonoa's here, the only game to make karp cry, give us windwaker on switch, we should stream it, games dont have to say stuff, make your own mistakes, the 57 precepts of zote, not finishing games

~shoutouts zone~

Klonoa Beach Volleyball

Disco Elysium Gameboy Edition  That Video Game Recommendation Engine Will Mentioned

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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. 🌆

Karp didn't write an episode description and so I, Gary, have taken over to deliver you this week's podcast, the conclusion to our Hollow Knight discussion! Karp beat the game, Feather stopped a while ago, Gary wants to keep playing, and Will is (not) dead. We dug a little deeper into the Hallownest this week and we went full spoilers before the end (with a new (temporary) spoiler sound, now that the s-blade is no more). Bugs are good, y'all. 

in this episode: karp still doesn't like hollowknight, traversal, obtuse lore drops, going down into history, feather apparently played bassoon, a ten percent discount on bagels, charms (revisited), the hollow knight is a real ass dude,  more backdrop than actual plot, you are not the chosen one, cyclicality, choose your own adventure, the brooding mawlek slays, you are a void, insects are fucked up little guys 

~shoutouts zone~

Why We Can't Stop Mapping Elden Ring by Ren or Raven (this wasn't shouted out in the ep, but it's part of what I was referencing when talking about the Siofra River Valley) 

The (Mostly) Complete Lore of Hollow Knight by mossbag (this also wasn't shouted out in the ep, but I watched it since our discussion and think it's good) 

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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 cohost! 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. 🌆

Few games achieve as much as they set out to accomplish as Hollow Knight. It's both a near-perfect execution of its genre, and a unique experience with few competitors. It's also so goddamn frustrating. Maybe some of us just need to git good?

In this episode: unity being terrible, being a lil guy, arguing about nails, how deep did you get, being lost, favorite bug, death salt, badges, genres, sometimes you just need to stab a dude.

~shoutouts zone~

Wikipedia: giraffe weevil

The 45 Hour Hollow Knight Speedrun Got Even Worse

The Speedrun Where Link Stares at Rupees for 17 Hours

How Speedrunners get 25 Shines before the game starts (any% pre-peach)

Silksong Presskit (if you want it I guess)

CDC Covid-19 Vaccination Info

Find a vaccine location near you

HI BILLY MAYS HERE AND AEFHFERAWQHPWQAHFWEFH

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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 cohost! 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. 🌆

It's just Karp and Gary this week, so we picked a game from the Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine. It's a lovely little musical platforming adventure called Wandersong!

in this episode: dancing, you are not the hero, no doubles, a very grumpy stubborn witch girl, ajoining a band, eleven thousand beans, so much dialogue, mermaids, happy kid, they all have pokemon, dreaming of home, gary hates audrey, the bugs!, every little bit of life is part of the whole, it's scary to be vulnerable, everyone is here, the entire game is super cute, karb, the future is bright

~shoutouts zone~

i dont think we had any shoutouts this week, i'll update this later if i've forgotten something!

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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 cohost! 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. 🌆

After spending three weeks climbing (or failing to climb) that mountain, the Infinite Cities crew is back with a game that is short and dumb. It's Betrayal At Club Low! Enter self-named protag, a spy sent in to help rescue a fellow undercover agent through the power of pizza dice! Make stew, steal a car, take over a DJ booth, and make your escape! 

In this episode:  pizzaiolo, deadly dice rolls, pizza dice, pickpocketing four slices of buffalo mozzerella, permanent conditions, blasting off while flipping the bird, gotta spin those pizzas, multiple endings, the off peak wiki, my bundles are so big, being a sneaky thief boy, driving the mom van of space, space shanties, karp's new phone

~shoutouts zone~ 

Going to the Store (the video this game reminded Will of) 

Celeste Perfect Run (Deathless Max%) 

Underrail Expedition Review (the video that got Karp to play Underrail) 

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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 cohost! 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. 🌆

After a brief hiatus (sorry! Feather crashed her car and then also had to go see Streetlight Manifesto) we're returning to the mountain to finish our discussion of Celeste! Although only one of us might be actually done with it? This game does a magic trick, in that the difficulty curve is one impossibly long mountain, where the next challenge is always just barely not impossible. It's good! 

In this episode: finding your own mountain, getting your butt kicked, dying so, so, so many times, Kevin blocks, we've retired the s-blade, being too jaded for happy stories, being off topic, homophobic cats, podcasting about celeste is our mountain.

~shoutouts zone~

feather going john madden on celeste b sides (john madden is a reference to legendary football guy blessed with the power of marker to draw on any football screen)

Summit C-Side

Celeste Wiki move list

Gill & Gilbert Are Playing Celeste and Enjoying Berries — Gill & Gilbert, Episode 1

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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. 🌆

On the way up a mountain, it's important to take breaks! In keeping with this message from Celeste itself, we're deviating from our normal format a bit - partly because we're busy, partly because we're still just getting started on our climbs, and mostly because we keep getting distracted by several new and exciting releases (or in feather's case, a jank puzzle game collection from 2004.) So join us (or don't!) as we talk through celeste, along an handful of other games that are more or less good.

In this episode: theme parks, magic mountains, space jam, new electronics, vvvvvvvvvvv, I don't actually think being the guy is worth it, is this a trans game, input devices, starfield, pizza, pikmin, metroid, puzzles, unpacking but not that unpacking, unity :c

~shoutouts zone~

Amazon: Rock Candy Xbox 360 Controller

Celeste any% speedrun

Celeste tool-assisted speedrun

I Wanna Be The Guy

VVVVVV

Good Pizza, Great Pizza

Papa's Pizzeria

Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection

A moderately full FFXIV WXHB (a full one has 8 layers and you can't render the whole thing in two dimensions) compared to a totally full traditional layout

Moving Out trailer

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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 cohost! 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. 🌆