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.