Infinite Cities

A little less than two years ago, the pod delved deep into the Hallownest, embracing the void in order to push back the Radiance. Now, we're returning to the bug life, weaving our thread of destiny throughout the kingdom of Pharloom. Will we accomplish our climb towards the Citadel, or fall prey to the innumerable bosses that stand in our way? Who knows! All we can really do is, in the words of our protag, git gud. 

in this episode: hype levels, the run button, down slash supremacy, put hornet in smash, crests, tool use, bell beast, memory lockets, maps, the moment of regret, boss fights

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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. 🌆

This is a game that lives under a lot of very unkind shadows: the shadow of it's predecessor, What The Golf, a very fun and unique game and one that we played in the perfect environment (as a group, eighteen hours into a twenty four hour stream). What the car is in the shadow of the modern gaming environment, where a game that definitely has twenty dollars of work in it is still twenty whole dollars. And right now, it's also in the shadow of silksong and/or a very unhappy feather's job.

Sorry What The Car. I couldn't love you, and it's not your fault. Maybe someone else can.

In this episode: golf comparisons, being too real, an unfortunately even larger silksong shaped shadow, amused booches, twenty dollars, verbs, giraffe obsession, a reverse omelas kind of situation.

~shoutouts zone~

Shoutouts to caramel apple pops. Delicious.

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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. 🌆

CW: lots of food talk. As always.

How many eggs have you cooked? How many stingrays? How many cigarettes? We're here to answer all these questions and more, but not the most important question of them all: is this game saying anything?

In this episode: lukewarm icecubes, but I digress, stabbing fish, the She-Ra curse, friction pans, petting a chicken, snack scorpions, 2020's-Itch-house-style, bouncy puffer fish.

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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. 🌆

We continue on our 80s crime adventure, even against insurmountable odds! (The odds are the fact that this game is like 100 hours long!) We'd have a better chance if we didn't keep getting distracted - still, it's always nice to return to Kamurochō.

In this episode: Locked in the batting cages, the virtues of motorcycles as a melee weapon, the curse of the charismatic autobiography, please let me change clothes these ones are covered in blood theoretically, living in the sidequest dimension, Majima thoughts, who is this guy again? Tier listing all the minigames (number 8 WILL surprise you!)

~shoutouts zone~

Yakuza 0 got difficult in chapter 6

A very strange form of crime

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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. 🌆

We're taking a break from beating up yakuza to play a quirky little game by the Katamari people. Can you guess who didn't like it and watched a Longplay instead?

In this episode: eye boogers, giraffe cabal, Noby Noby Boy, pineapple juice day, easily befriendable bullies, The Looker, uninteresting jank.

~shoutout zone~

QWOP

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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. 🌆

After a week living Yakuza through baseball games and karaoke, the gang is playing Yakuza. Or, well, we're mostly watching it, so far? Most of us, anyway. 

in this episode: a fiery game full of passionate men, so many cutscenes, how long to beat, aura plays, scummy but flashy vibes, sweet potater soju, hot and heavy, thicc drama, jingle all the way, bacchus, hallway fights, living yakuza, fatt onion order, t poses, welcome to several cities

~shoutout zone~

Yakuza Zero Goro Majima Introduction

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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. 🌆

You gotta love a roguelike deckbuilder. It's the peanutbutter and chocolate of genres. The randomness and run-to-run differentiation, with the short-loop tactics of building a deck. It's so good together!

Except sometimes you get a peanutbutter guy and then spend the next ten minutes looking for mr. chocolate until you hit the big ugly jelly boss and he blaps you back to the goddamn home screen. 

I'm not mad. I'm not mad! Don't let them tell you I'm mad. This game is too cute for that.

In this episode: misleading art, deckbuilders, out here looking like a Korean schoolgirl's phone, working against yourself, cute elements, combo potential, lots of little unlocks and achievements, too much polish.

~shoutouts zone~

Slay the Spire ig

Magic the Gathering Player Archetypes

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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. 🌆

It's the summer, which means the clocks are ticking down and everyone's fucking busy. Except for me and Feather, who are here to yap, as always. It's Citizen Sleeper 2! If you haven't listened to our episode on the first game, you can do so here, but it is not required for this discussion! Join us as we talk about building safety nets, trusting others, transness, and bodies!  

in this episode: clocks, dice, having your own ship, fucking yu-jin, crew dynamics, the stray is my child, should this be harder, flint, alex jones was right about the frog thing, the homosexual underground

~~shoutout zone~~

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

The Expanse by James S A Corey

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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. 🌆

It's episode 100! To celebrate, we're playing all the games.

Okay, not all the games. Just a lot of games. Just fifty of the games.

And well, we each only played some of those.

But MANG let me TELL you about a game I played!

In this episode: 100 episodes, steelmanning the barbuta defense squad, retro jank, bouncing off bushido ball, what the hell is golfaria, the timelessness of puzzle games, mooncat.

~shoutouts zone~

Shout outs to you! Thanks for being with us over 100 of this dang things.

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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. 🌆

Someone's taken our shell, and we're getting it back, no matter who's in the way. Gary and Karp chose to tackle some crabs this week. Hope you like Soulslikes, because we sure do, and this is a great one. 

In this episode: Prawn shop, rubberbanded lobsters, Gary's gonna shoot someone, sea-mmer, shark-grabber, LAWBREAKER, hackey-sack, fish swearing.

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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. 🌆