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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes, it's okay to give into nostalgia. Let the bitcrunched trumpets and adorable sprites take you back to your childhood, away to a world full of potential, one full of exciting people and wonder and amazing critters who you can love and travel with and villains who want to kill everyone but are still easily defeatable by fourteen year olds.

In this ep, we speculate what happened to pokemon. Honestly, I'm not sure anything happened to it - I think that instead, something happened to us. I think we grew up, and the world grew up with us. There's no point wondering what's out beyond that horizon - we have maps, and wikis, and know there are exactly 1,025 pokemon but only 653 are in Pokemon Violet if you have all the DLCs. I don't think there's room for the antics of team rocket or team magma. I think we're all just out here, looking for a chance to feel the same way we did when we took our first steps out into that tall grass, not knowing what we were going to find.

It's a lot to expect for a little game, but maybe, this one is enough for us.

In this episode: I'M GOING TO WIN THE MOON THATS RIGHT OBAMA MY POKEMON IS SO CUTE I WON THE MOOOON, we are not pokemon experts, why does no one care what a temtem is, feather spends like ten minutes explaining pokemon contests, current lineups, catching raltz live, i heard u lik mudkipz, feeling old.

~shoutouts zone~

Vs. Rival Theme

Mudkips sing Chocolate Rain

Would you just LOOK at this DELIGHTFUL FELLOW

I don't care what the games say this is how big Altaria is

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Will and Gary are hijacking this week to give us more time with Drill Dozer and also get out our first impressions on Star Wars: Outlaws! I have a feeling we'll probably be getting together about this one again in the future, but don't hold your breath, y'know?

in this episode: intros, syndicate relationships, earnest kay, abilities, speeder bike horse, auto save failures, the worst imperial station, cool little guys, guard aggression, nix, kay's mom is a piece of shit, sliro, the heist, the core, petting critters, cosmetics, star wars is incredibly dumb, bad writing, space combat, speeder problems, movement puzzles, outlaws good

~shoutout zone~

New Republic Archives 

The Bad Mark Hamill Line 

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If you die in the dream you die in real life. Only you can't die in this dream. Just pick up cans and chess pieces and put them down again. And walk on cheese wedges. It's a great game.

In this episode: No Will, worse Portal, looking at things from a new angle, soup minute, infinity mirrors, domino doors, playing with expectations, sudden change in what the next game will be.

~shoutouts zone~

yayoi kusama infinity mirrors

Peasoup Andersens

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