Alex, Tom S and Graham minotalk and cyclopine about the forthcoming Total War Saga: Troy, delight in the hikes and hot bilge of Death Stranding and feel all kinds of 7/10 about Ghosts of Tsushima.
- Here’s that story on testing seeds for impossibility in Slay The Spire.
- Mentioned as Alex’s spire-alike of choice: Monster Train
- Sing, O Goddess, of the mild pique at Total War Saga: Troy‘s compromise between history and myth.
- Stuff piss bombs into the whale to make the ghosts go away in Hideo Kojima’s sympathetic fart machine, Death Stranding by Hideo Kojima.
- Ghost of Tsushima. Collect another 49 podcasts to unlock a sense of apathy at hoary open world mechanics.
- Rob Sherman’s great article about inventory: I Am Overencumbered.
- Exposure is the video series about the aborted development of F-Stop.
- The video Alex and Graham recall which utilises polaroid photographs to alter geometry is this one!
- Portal 1 and 2 are a hard act to follow.
- But follow the FPS-puzzlers did, with much physicsy wibbliness. Some of those mentioned: Antichamber, Superliminal, Manifold Garden, The Talos Principle, The Witness.
- Tacoma is not really a puzzle game, but a very good firstperson story game.
- Alan Hazelden‘s puzzlers are also mentioned.
- Just add a little pet fox! It worked for The Shard.
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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.