Thoughts from Player One

This week special guest Michael joins us to discuss The Outer Worlds, the newest game from Obsidian. For this episode we only talk about events up through the end of the first world, Edgewater. If you haven't played more than that you can still listen along! Talking points include: Faceless Marauders, Directed environments, and difficult choices that probably shouldn't have been.

Music Track: High Spirits

Composer: Bjorn A. Lynne (PRS)

License his music from: www.shockwave-sound.com

It's the ever coveted Halloween episode right at your doorstep! Don't eat this one before dinner! This week we played Lost in Vivo and the first episode of Stories Untold, The House Abandon.  Topics: Variety in horror, the hallmarks of good horror, monsters, and good theming.  

This week we discussed Finding Paradise, a wonderful sequel to To The Moon.  It follows the two doctors traveling through a man's mind to change his memories and past, yet he wants nothing changed nothing at all.  Topics include: Memories, perceptions, privacy, and one more that I can't say because it's a spoil! I promise it's very interesting! 

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This week we took a trip on down to Alligator New York City with Pillow Fight and Smallbu's Later Alligator, a charming adventure game with an all alligator cast. Talking points include: Edutainment games, point and click adventures, the origins of the name Kidz Bop, active listening, and more.

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This week we took ourselves to Twilight Town in our continued search for the power of waking, or a person close enough to dive into the abyss for Aqua, or Roxas? We honestly don't really know. Junior Kingdom Hearts expert Jordon joins us again this week to walk through this spectacularly unsurprisingly confusing plot! Topics include: Door to Darkness, A strange rat creature, The Twilight Town crew, and really good Mickey impressions.     

Intro/Outro Music: Don't Think Twice by Hikaru Utada

This week we discussed Eliza, a new Visual Novel from Zachtronics about an AI counseling service and the people who created it. We also discovered that intros are hard and closers are even harder. Talking points include: Mental Health, tech culture, human nature, responsibility, and then a lot more about mental health.

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This week we dive right back into that Life is Strange well and talk about episode 4: Faith. We discuss everything ranging from racists to religious fanatics which is actually not a huge range. Talking points include: Desertbillies, distrust of others, sentimental dreams, character motivation, and raising the cross like he raised Jesus.

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This week Thoughts from Player One returns to Kingdom Hearts 3 and actually talks about it in an attempt to start a new series and fill the void Sonic left in our hearts. In this episode we are joined by Junior Kingdom Hearts expert Jordon as we discuss the intro up though the ending of the Hercules world.

Intro/Outro Music: Don't Think Twice by Hikaru Utada

Hey everyone, this week we decided to do a mid point check in for 2019 with a conversation about what games we've been playing and why!  Games include: Mario Maker 2, Outer Wilds, Carcasone, Root, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Sekiro, and Planet Coaster. 

Topics include: Game design in games, making non co-op games co-op, dead parrots, board games, and fun coaster stuff!

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In our final installment of the NieR: Automata episodes we discuss endings C, D, and E. Josh and Michael are back to hash out the final questions, like why in the world Josh thinks A2 was better than 9S. We also discuss other ideas from the final runs such as: Whether we are just our memories, character re-contextualization, still bad checkpointing, and whether or not someone on our podcast was secretly a cop. 

Intro and Outro music from NieR Automata OST.