Infinite Cities – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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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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!

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

I'm tired, we're tired, and if I had to take a guess, you're probably tired too. That's why we turn to games like stardew valley: because they suck and when we're miserable it's nice to just tear into a bunch of loser guys who live with their parents and dare to think they're anywhere near the same league as you, a perfect farming god(dess).

In this episode: being tired, here is your biweekly egg please love me, sauceless losers, harem anime protagonist, how much can one radish cost, ten dollars? He's not that interesting he just has hair, straight guy vibes, shitass bumfuck loser towns, grindan at my grindan game, cactus complaints.

~shoutouts zone~

Fields of Mistria

Harvey development sprites

BACo: Baseball Analysis Co.

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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. 🌆

For this week, we've decided to pick up our first boomer shooter of the podcast, and what a hell of a game this turned out to be. Slayers X is a spin-off/follow-up to 2019's Hypnospace Outlaw, and is a game created by the fictional character of Zane Lofton. It's full of 90s nostalgia, hackblood charges, and just so, so many poop jokes. 

In this episode: we've got new intro music (thanks cliff!), nu metal, 90s charm, rats, our boomer shooter experiences, zane is a loser, old people are weird, the cutscenes rule

~shoutouts zone~

Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer 

Hypnospace Outlaw 

Slayers X - All Rat Voicelines 

Chex Quest 

Blood: Fresh Supply 

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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. 🌆

We're finally putting Outer Wilds (mostly) behind us, as four of the the five of us have finished - and all five of us have some really big thoughts. Mostly praise! This was a game truely like no other, and while Feather from the future really wants you to know the game is like an 8.5 / 10 (even if it's a 5/5 hole score) it's still a special gem that we're all glad to have gotten to experience.

In this episode: Karp is removed from infinite cities until his performance improves, breaking spacetime for discord cred, finishing your plate (metaphorically), a very useful graph, blasting teenagers into space, that ending, more theories, unbelivable hole-ness.

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Will's outer wilds enjoyment chart

Polygon: "How roasting marshmallows became the ‘emotional core’ of Outer Wilds"

Working Casual: "Review: Outer Wilds is a Bold, Memorable Space Game That’s Flawed to its Core"

Polygon: "Fan assaults top Smash Bros. player with crab at tournament (the crab was dead)"

Mazačka - the cute Czech maintenance tram (and a picture)

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

Outer Wilds is an absolute joy of a game, capturing wonder and exploration and puzzles in a near-perfect little solar system. It's so good, that we're recommending you hold off on this episode (or at least all of the episode after about 20 minutes in) until you've started it.

Not finished it, mind you - we haven't finished it either! (Except Gary, who doesn't count.) This episode is just part 1. In fact, the ideal way to consume both Outer Wilds and Infinite Cities might just be to play about 8-10 hours, then come listen to us, where you can sync up with our confusion across the bounds of time and space. From that cross-dimensional mind meld that is podcasting, you can go back out into the littlest solar system with a fresh perspective and a few new theories.

Or, if you've already beaten it, you can listen to how dumb we're being and relive some of that first explorative joy! (Again, except Gary)

ALSO very cool awesome person Hen is on, because she's been backseating Will this entire time and has Big Thoughts!

Note: next week will be no episode! Most of us will be at Comic-Con!

In this episode: 2019 gaming, fuzzy spoiler boundaries, surprise questions, rough takeoff, diegetic tutorials, falling into the ocean, you gotta go into the bramble, scale, postpods.

~shoutouts zone~

The Dew Drinker Discord

Other games mentioned: Obra Din, Subnautica, Breath of the Wild, Kerbal Space Program, Sable

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

Hello Listener. 

This episode talks about the 2014/2016/2022 puzzle adventure RPG game OneShot - but you knew that already. You also know how this episode ends. We've been here before. This is not the first Episode 2. This is just the first Episode 2 you can still change.

Do be careful though, because you only have One Shot - and if you close this podcast, Gary dies.

(he does not actually die he is fine)

In this episode: spoiler zone purpose and philosophy, RPG maker games as a genre, will had a bad time, meta elements, sitting down to play chess, a sidenote about goldeneye 64 which sucks, if you put bird people in your game feather will love it, the hardest decision we've ever had to make, fixing your errors, dialogues within dialogues, re-re-re-contextualization.

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OneShot

RPGMaker.net

Glen Map (cw: OneShot world 2 spoilers, large image file)

Yume Nikki

OFF (english translation)

Join us in playing our next game!

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We begin with a game about life changes, finding yourself in a new place, and making yourself a home out of a space. We think this is a good fit for our beginning, although Feather still doesn't know where to put all the little towels and Karp is still unpacking even more socks. 

Content warnings: full unpacking spoilers from 0:16:00. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse spoilers in the postpod, from 1:27:00.

In this episode: please unpack that box (yes that box), busywork and moving stress, deeply unfair comparisons to Lawrence of Arabia, sound effects, stealing things from room mates, telling stories through environmental details, where the hell do you put extra towels, how to get screenshots off a nintendo switch.

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Unpacking

You can buy unpacking brand chickens

Windows 98 Longplay - Microsoft Hearts

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Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

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

Thank you so much for joining us! It doesn't matter you've been with Infinite Cities Blaseball for a hundred episodes, or if you're finding us for the first time, we're glad you're here.

In the shortest possible terms, Infinite Cities is a podcast about friends playing good games, together. 

In a longer explaination, you have this epsiode, where we're talking about our plans for Infinite Cities, and re-introducing ourselves - and getting lost several times along the way. It's all part of the journey!

~shoutouts zone~

Infinite Cities Blaseball, our previous podcast

Why you heff to be mad?

Beyblade VForce Super Tournament

Shin Megami Tensei 1 was extremely scuffed

Also we a ton of other. much better, games but I'm not going to link them because we'd be here all day.

Join us in our official discord!

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Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

You can find us on Twitter, and cohost! 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 needed a short game, and we picked something we could talk for longer than the runtime. Made by Crows, Crows, Crows, "Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, And the Terribly Cursed Emerald" gives us at least 20 minutes of converstaion for you to languish in and enjoy, and we'll be back next week with, well, something!

in this episode: stone busts, secret passges, the emerald room, guards, lasers, the vault, searchlights, a motherfucking tiger...
stealth sections, roleplaying in the stem forum, the trailer isn't real, strikes, davey wreden and william pugh, replay value, fourth wall theories, feather's color grading poll, the most important part of coding, andrew plotkin, super hipster lumberjack, call your mother, backwards switches

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System's Twilight 

Crows Crows Crows Email 

Stanley Parable Making Of Trailer 

Herobrine's Mansion 

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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!

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