Episodes
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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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Episodes manquant?
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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.
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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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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆
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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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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. 🌆
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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~~~
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. 🌆
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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
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Apple Rankings by Brian Frange
Appalachian Apple Hunter Rescues 'Lost' Varieties
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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. 🌆
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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)
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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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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. 🌆
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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.
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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
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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.
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yayoi kusama infinity mirrors
Peasoup Andersens
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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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Jusant, a French word which translates to the English word "ebb" aka the movement of the tide out to sea. The ocean has receeded, bit by bit, until nothing was left but the Great Basin. And emerging from that basin, one valiant climber and their adorable little guy. Where are they going? Why are they going? What's even up there? Who knows! Find out with Karp, Will, and Gary as we travel up The Tower!
in this episode: no feather, climbing buttons, a desert full of boats, the bestest little guy, gary's folly, an indominable sense of scale, a culture built on climbing, this game needs a photo mode, getting stuck, missing collectibles, its fuckin wimdy, it's a cover climber, ballasts, Will gets stuck, the final tower
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Jusant
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GHOST TRICK MONTH, BABY. play it play it PLAY IT
To cap this game off - and really bury it - we've brought on resident Ghost Trick expert Bluey (they/them)! The world is not ready for our combined powers, and Ghosts are everywhere and they won't stop Tricking! Things get wildly out of hand, disasters happen, people die, we travel through time, and also we talk about Ghost Trick!
Editor's note: there's so much crosstalk in this one holy hell I edited out so much crosstalk but even then there's only so much you can do cuz sometimes you gotta leave it in for effect, and that was basically half the episode - so please enjoy five people speaking simultaneously all of the time.
In this episode: the return of an infinite cities tradition, chicken dinner, , why this game didn't take off, it's really unbelievably good actually, blingee appreciation minute, failing to recap plot, chuck tingle, is this a Cabanela liker podcast, brain poisoning, we really hate curry head ok, confusing ourselves, podcasting too long.
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Peak Guy by AccurateJaney
Very Excellent Blingees plus a bonus jowd roll in the dryer
Bald Sissel
The two finger salute for douchebags and Tracer from Overwatch
Shot with a hard hat (MAJOR SPOILERS)
Not Pounded By Anything: Six Platonic Tales Of Non-Sexual Encounters by Chuck Tingle
Disco scene - The Extremely Goofy Movie
Awkard Zombie - Ghost Trick
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It's always fun, following up on a game we've already done an episode about, and because we've already declared it The Month of Ghost Trick, Will and I are here to talk about the second-third of the game. Ghost trick is a game of puzzles, and ghosts, and tricks. We zoom around the screen and lament that we aren't using the original DS stylus to do so. We rewind time again and again and suffer through slow walk cycles and devestated justice ministers. We fight the oppresive nature of photo albums that don't quite reach our ghost grasp. And we learn some heavy shit. While we only get to Chapter 11, it felt like the natural stopping point after some Major Reveals (please ignore the fact that Will only finished Chapter 11 minutes before we started recording). We'll be back next week to cover the conclusion!
in this episode: the continuation of ghost trick month, ds crunchiness, frustrating puzzling, chicken flippin, cabanella ick, improper execution, feather's incompetence, order of operations, big reveals
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Ghost Trick Physical EditionThe Jowd Roll
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Have you ever been ghosted? tricked? bamboozled? Well get ready, cause this week we aren't talking about Ghost Trick after all! Karp is away, so Feather, Will and Gary decided to spend some time with an adorable little game jam game recommeded by our friend Sins. It's Updog!
in this episode: walking dogs, filling the doggy dex, inner and outer loops, a very feather-coded dog, way too many dogs, build your own difficulty, trombone champ sidebar, bag vodka, too many ewoks
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Updog!
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Ghost trick was a commercial failure, or at least not enough of a commercial success to make Capcom happy. But I think they knew what they had - that's why they ported it eight times - including two separate Android ports. A large part has got to be that it's a lot weirder and harder to explain than it's more straightforward Pheonix Wright cousin, with strange spatial puzzle elements. Personally, I think they released it too early - if this had come out in 2020, gifs of it would have done numbers. Thankfully, just like our hero in the game, Ghost Trick keeps kicking from beyond the grave.
Editor's note: the postpod is a bit gratuitious on this one, but I gotta spread the word of Samurai Cop.
In this episode: thanks to everyone who joined us to help pick this game, the 2010s visual novel wave, S rank at climbing stairs, feather fails to explain "there's two police and they walk back and forth" for ten minutes, point and click adventure games, game tip: turn on "fast forward unread dialogue" and then good at tapping the "skip" button and it' just makes things slightly faster, Missile appreciation minute, what if Marge Simpson's head was just like that.
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Game grumps play Pheonix Wright
Samurai Cop
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You wake up in a stack of hay.
The innkeeper lets you have some leftovers for breakfast after you wash yourself in the river.
In the neighbouring village there's strong men who are willing to help you remove the fallen tree, and another town has bandit problems. A third town has undead problems.
There's 10 days left of summer.
What do you do?
In this episode: Feather is once again alone in her opinion, a great book, incredibly shitty Tumblr memes, talking to everyone without listening, savescumming as if your life depended on it, is it okay if I put a comm tower here, succeeding too much.
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The name of the writer for this game: Maciej Gajzlerowicz
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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆
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Helldivers! We (Will and Feather, at least) are not immune to propaganda, and so we're taking a break from our break from our regularly scheduled content to chat about a game that is both stupider and smarter than it first appears.
BAH
BAH
BAH
BAAAHHHHHHH
In this episode: other games, don't read the forums, the Joel, helldivers lore is great, I hope you like fire tornadoes dumbass, I forgot to mention it but we did turn a planet into a black hole once, extremely cinematic explosions, you are not immune to being a physics objects, a constant torrent of happening all the time, the helldivers puzzle has been solved.
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Helldivers 2 Main Theme: A Cup Of Liber-Tea
The Forever Winter
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Your travels take you to a crossing.
To the east, a narrow path cuts through tangled brush and snarling thorns.
The road north is clear, but you heard rumor horrific goblins wait in ambush.
The west is open plains - clear, but in the distance you can make out the most horrific animal of all: packs of terrifying beasts known as "horses".
Better chance the goblins and the thorns.
In this episode: horses, literal magic, encyclopedia games, we describe a lot of systems but really the game isn't that complicated, please tell me what I am doing wrong, being glarb, Mystik Dan, low fantasy, sight reading a TTRPG, you didn't hang out in the place that hurts you, parade of thing that hurt you, a fun announcement!
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love a good horse novel
Baja Blast (the horse)
we don't talk about it in the ep but it's always a good time to listen to Corb Lund
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"Walking Sim" as a genre is a bit of a perjorative, but really - that's what we have here. You walk places, and things happen! That's the game. But even in that, there's a ton to talk about. Why is this game about being alone, so full of chatter? Can you find yourself in those dark woods? And perhaps most importantly, why is this walking sim so bad at walking?
In this episode: flapjack, game of telephone, taking care of your knees, not a metroidvania, Lichenland, shoutout to the secret ending, superfire, QWOP.
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Pictures from a reddit user's trip to Shoshone National Forest
Just finished my No-Talking-To-Delilah run
Pitamakan's comment on "Does anyone here actually work in actual firewatch?"
Very good lichen
BART-MAN
NASA's asteroid LARP
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Pow! Bang! Bop! This week we're FIGHTING! Or, well, we're talking about the potential of fighting, but really we're mostly commiserating about the state of Guilty Gear's story mode. Fighting games are hard and have a high barrier for entry, which is why we basically dance around the idea of it for an hour before throwing in the towel. If any sickos really wanna talk to Feather about fighting games though, you know where to find her.
in this episode: lets rock, fighting games, feather blaming the beasts, divekick, training dojo, gary's glossary, subspace emissary, shoutouts to loading, feather and gary's wild ride, story mode problems, emotional cruft, discount paramore, rushdown characters, future sickos, roasting lunchables
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feather put together a bunch of shit that never came up in the episode but here they are cause i'm nice:
Why Button Mashing Doesn't Work
Everything You need to Know About Ramlethal Pressure
The Entire Guilty Gear Story in 14 Minutes
Necessary Discrepancy (Ramlethal Theme)
And the one actually mentioned in the episode:
Guilty Gear Strive Every Faust Overdrive Reaction
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We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆
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