Game of the hour: Monster Hunter: World
Topics discussed: Monster Hunter’s endless loop of fun, Japanese Colonialism, What makes an RPG?
Videos
Episode 22 – Super Mario Odyssey
Game of the hour: Super Mario Odyssey
Topics discussed: Odyssey’s interchangeable buildings blocks of level design. Tourism and cultural appropriation.
Episode 21 – Dishonored: Death of The Outsider
Game of the Hour: Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Topics discussed: What does the term “Immersive Sim” really mean? Also: How Billy Lurk’s outsider status alters her perspective and the way she interacts with the world.
Further reading:
http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2017/10/the-second-death-of-immersive-sim-2007.html
Episode 20 – Anniversary Episode
Tavit and Yussef recap the past 20 episodes of the podcast and reminisce over how we’ve changed, how we’ve stayed the same, and what we’ve learned along the way.
Check out our new video format!
Tavit and Yussef play Inside
Here’s the recording of our playthrough of Playdead’s Inside – It’s a wonderful game, and I think we had some insightful things to say about it. Check it out!
A Beginner’s Hour – Episode One
Join Tavit & Yussef in their latest video gamey venture: A Beginner’s Hour!
In this series we will each be choosing our favorite games and talking about what we find so very interesting about them.
For the premiere episode of A Beginner’s Hour, we play through the first major area of Bloodborne, a third person action game that has you dive into the Lovecraftian bowels of a mysterious town called Yharnam.