CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER:

Feather: loud and flighty. Special move: a take so bad all enemies on screen have to engage. Karp: stable and strong. Special move: has already beaten the game, so he can skip ahead to when he already won the fight. Will: fast and has bonus reach. Special move: crashes a bike into enemies for massive damage, hurting them as well as himself (but not the bike!) Gary: fun and supportive. Special move: cooks bomb-ass pasta, healing everyone on screen. Enemies get healed, but also stunned as they try to schedule a new podcast (the more enemies, the longer the stun!)

In this episode: fresh game, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (The Movie), Ready Player One, sprites, favorite combos, beat-em-up genre conventions, empty stories, not so evil exes, the spirit of whimsy compels you, better than being stung by scorpions for an hour.

~shoutouts zone~

Dueling Genre patreon presents Scott Pilgrim Minute

Paul Robertson (I can't find a good portfolio or anything so have a twenty minute animated pixel short)

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For a game that is credited with popularizing the roguelike deckbuilder genre, Slay the Spire is surprisingly stripped down compared to everything that came after it. You build your deck, you fight monsters, you keep pushing onward. After our time with Inscryption and and Wildfrost, it almost feels strange going backwards to a game most of us have played, and half of us have beaten, before. This ep is a little all over the place, thanks daylight savings, because we're all sleepy and doing our best. Stick around for the post pod where Feather tells us about Marathon for nearly half an hour!

in this episode: roguelike deckbuilders, sway the spire,  sweaty games, the first work, art, adventure quest, orb shit, this game is chess, get sweaty with it 

~shoutout zone~

Dream Quest

Adventure Quest

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

Gary's on the move so we take the chance to play something they absolutely loathe (/j): racing games. This is like an oasis in a WipEout-less world.

In this episode: why did WipEout die, podracers, racing line, braking game, "one-and-a-half good games", ancient fox girl, "nightcar dubstep".

~Shoutout zone~

Redout OST - Pipe Down

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

This is the best worst game we have played so far. What a glorious mess.

In this episode: jank jank jank, ska, categorizing rhythm games, legibility issues, mapping left and right to up and down, peak, the sewer level, poco and apoco are here! posters, petty band drama, incoherence, conspiracies, homestuck.

~shoutouts zone~

The best trailer of all time

Two Tone Army

2 Mello - Twist Sound

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

It's a mark of praise that KRZ so frequently ends up compared with our favorite narrative games -it it's in the same space as Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, Night in the Woods. Just because it frequently comes off worse in those comparisons doesn't mean it's not secretly great. It's just tired, and all out of answers - and maybe that's the only way this story could be honest.

In this episode: no bits, aging games, literally figuratively literally robots, midpoints and looking back, Xanadu is butts, getting to the point, getting off the boat, being irrational about animals, giant fucking bird, addiction, garbage ghosts, museums, something is taken from you in the night.

~shoutouts zone~

PDP-1 Computer

White Nose Syndrome

WEVP-TV

Laver (Ghost Town)

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

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Kentucky Route Zero wants to be art so badly, and it genuinely succeeds - this is a beautiful game, both visually and artistically. But a game that is art is less revolutionary in 2013, and our relationships to rural Appalachia have changed as well. Is this game a ghost of the past? Is that the intended outcome, from the very beginning? There are no answers but the ones in your heart.

In this episode: ten years, silhouette, dogs and names of dogs, maps (fictional and otherwise), lighting, debt, blame, caves (Plato's and otherwise).

~shoutouts zone~

Friends at the Table's Bluff City

Glasgow, Kentucky

Mee-maw Can't Work at the Big Asbestos Factory No More

This Little Berlin art exhibit is part video-game, part real-life

Any reason to shout out Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

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You think you got a sense of rhythm? You think you can shoot good? You think you know roguelites? What about all of them at once?

Now make the game monochrome and don't tell the player anything. I kid, there is a good game here if you look under the jank.

In this episode: big pile of enemies, absolute friendslop, hypebeast GOAT, hexapod (look it up), fire on the quarters, reload on the eights, DOOM 2016 but with heavy metal(?), healthmaxxing, overcomplaining, sick birds.

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Pentiment is a game that is good. I might even argue that it's very good. But it's a game with fussy mechanics. It's a murder mystery that isn't interested in the answers. It's vague about it's truths. Pentiment is a tale about how history is preserved; about how truth is obfuscated. It's a tale about heritage and oral tradition and art. It's absolutely about art. Feather, Will, and Gary are finishing up the game this week and while only two of the three of us finished the game, we still very much recommend it! If you're interested at all in playing, please do that before listening to this. We're firm with our spoiler walls, but everything is revealed in this episode. 

in this episode: geography, this is not disco elysium, the abbot was right, there is no right answer, returning to tassing, the peasants are organizing, the thread puller, investigations around town, you paint the narrative, boy failure andreas, the best check in the game, the holes are back, a special guest, feather's wishlist returns, the barbenheimer of infinite cities

~shoutout zone~

Pentiment Ending Mural 

The Name of the Rose 

Andrei Rublev

Qualityslop

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This episode wound up a bit of a fever dream disaster, but honestly - it couldn't have ended up any other way. The game is a fever dream disaster, about a disaster having a fever dream. While it sounds like we're just making things up as we go along, I promise this isn't Shrekisode II - everything we mention actually happens in Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines. I think. Maybe.

Ok, I did start this game at midnight saturday, so... maybe it is all a collective hallucination. You'll have to play it and find out. Maybe.

In this episode: jira jumpscare, work bad, internal communications, derailed even more than normal, what the fuck even happened, time travel pathing, AI commentary, air friers, hating visual novels, being a middle manager, yuri.

~shoutouts zone~

Corporate Memphis

Saturn Devouring His Son

Internal Communications

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

Feather is away which means we're getting up to shenanigans with a weird little game again! Keeper is a gorgeous, vibes based puzzle game about a creepy lighthouse and his bird pal, uhm, saving the world?? I think?? Don't worry about the plot, just enjoy the experience.  in this episode: immediate complaints, the evil goo, achievement lore, time shit, creepy little lighthouse creature, bad camera movements, weird little guys, massive emplaced hybrid organisms, samus morphball time, just vibes

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