Episode Details

Tom F, Alex and Marsh gather to discuss Obsidian’s backyard survival game Grounded, go postal, in a very tranquil way, in Thousand Threads, sink into a fug of nostalgia for Halo 3, toot flutes and avoid parps in Ghosts of Tsushima and briefly descend into Hades.

• Dana Schwartz’s tweet about Reddit user NoNoNo_OhOhOh’s post about John Boyne’s novel’s deseparate SEO Zelda calamity.
• Enjoy, or decry, miniature multiplayer makework in survival game Grounded.
• “Just get yourself a small metal spoon, sit back and relax” in pretty open world postal game Thousand Threads.
• Love the bonky stick but fear the UI funnel of The Master Chief Collection.
• Avoid the full parps of Ghost of Tsushima.
• Smoke a whole pack of easy in Hades.
• Control has good tutorials apparently.
• Nice Man James Benson’s real-goodly animated tutorial for a game that doesn’t exist.
• Hideo Kojima’s formative bee experience.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.