Gaming In The Wild - Video Game Reviews

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117: Stray Jul 21, 2022

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It's finally here! "The cat game" we've been waiting for since 2020 — and my most anticipated game of, um, 2021 — dropped on PS+ and Steam this week, and it's something special indeed. Exploring a mesmerisingly detailed, neon-lit cyberpunk city as a cat is something truly unique, and it was a lot of fun to talk it through in this spoiler-free review.

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As always, thanks for listening!

116: The Wild At Heart Jul 16, 2022

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I’m back from Covid, with lots of games to talk about, including It Takes Two, Xenoblade Chronicles, and this week’s featured game – an indie-game love letter to some Nintendo classics called The Wild At Heart.

And as always, thanks for listening!

115: PS+ Picks – Rez Infinite, The Last Guardian, Bound, Concrete Genie, Miles Morales Jul 03, 2022

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I've got the 'rona this week, so this episode is a compilation of some reviews plucked from old episodes. These picks are all on the new PS+ service: The Last Guardian, Rez Infinite, Bound, The Artful Escape, Miles Morales, and Concrete Genie. Hopefully normal service will be resumed next week! If you enjoy the show, you can come say hi on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch - find the links at http://gaminginthewild.com. If you'd like to support the show on Patreon, you can do so from $1 per month and get exclusive episodes, sale recommendations, and an invite to the show’s Discord community – go to http://patreon.com/gaminginthewild for that. You can also support the show via Ko-Fi if that’s your preferred creator platform: http://ko-fi.com/gaminginthewild. And as always, thanks for listening!

114: Chorus (CHORVS) Jun 25, 2022

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This week's episode comes direct from sunny Margate, as I'm on my holidays in the UK! The featured game is Chorus (also sometimes typed CHORVS because they used a weird font for the logo) - a simple vehicular space shooter with fun dogfighting and exploration. It's an episode of two halves, in which I sing the praises of the combat, graphics, and the sense of open-galaxy freedom, then go ham on the straight-up awful voice acting and truly execrable story. Enjoy? Enjoy!

And as always, thanks for listening!

113: Summer Indie Games – Silksong, Naiad, Highwater, Schim, Birth, The Garden Path & More Jun 14, 2022

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It’s a crazy time of year for game reveals, with over 100 announcements and updates being shown over the last week. So, it seemed like a fun time for a rare midweek episode. Here’s a rundown of ten indie games that particularly caught my eye, and a bit of chat about the biggies like Silksong and Starfield.

Watch the Wholesome Direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRgvwWLpbA
Watch Day of the Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kHHqR3uSq0
Watch the MinnMax coverage of the Xbox/Bethesda showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOYHDhc34eE

Music used in this show (all from wonderful games I've covered in the past, please support these artists!):
Amos Roddy - In Other Waters: https://amosroddy.bandcamp.com/album/in-other-waters-original-soundtrack
Ratvader - The Gunk: https://ratvader.bandcamp.com/album/the-gunk-original-game-soundtrack
Disasterpeace - Hyper Light Drifter: https://music.disasterpeace.com/album/hyper-light-drifter
Alec Holowka - Night In The Woods: https://infiniteammo.bandcamp.com/album/night-in-the-woods-vol-1-at-the-end-of-everything
If you enjoy the show, you can come say hi on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch - find the links at http://gaminginthewild.com. If you'd like to support the show on Patreon, you can do so from $1 per month and get exclusive episodes, sale recommendations, and an invite to the show’s Discord community – go to http://patreon.com/gaminginthewild for that. You can also support the show via Ko-Fi if that’s your preferred creator platform: http://ko-fi.com/gaminginthewild.

And as always, thanks for listening!

112: Interview - NORCO creator Yuts (Geography of Robots) Jun 11, 2022

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I’m joined this week by Yuts of Geography of Robots - the developer behind one of 2022’s best indie games, NORCO. We talked about how much of this mesmerising near-future world is based on current day events, local myths, and intertwined histories of Louisiana; about psychogeography, psychedelia, reality and unreality, and much more besides.

Thanks to Yuts for the great conversation. Note: the episode contains spoilers for Norco. If you’re yet to play, I recommend listening to episode 109 - https://anchor.fm/gaminginthewild/episodes/109-NORCO-e1it6cb - for a review of the game, and coming back to this episode later. Follow Geography of Robots on Twitter at @roboticgeo - http://twitter.com/roboticgeo - and play NORCO on PC or Mac, including Game Pass (PC only).

111: Card Shark, Behind The Frame, The Almost Gone, Super Mario 3D World Jun 05, 2022

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This week’s episode is a roundup that includes some chat about Sony’s State of Play, and especially Stray and Season, as well as a first impression of newly released Card Shark, mini-reviews of The Almost Gone and Behind The Frame, and a look at Super Mario 3D World and the future of Mario.

And as always, thanks for listening!

110: Citizen Sleeper (ft. Gianni from Sifter) May 28, 2022

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Citizen Sleeper is the featured game this week. It's the second game by Jump Over The Age aka Gareth Damian Martin, and it's a deep, fascinating sci-fi saga set on Erlin's Eye: a crumbling space station on the edge of the galaxy. It's a rare game that fuses a compelling scifi story with clever mechanics, poetic text, and far reaching themes from selfhood and sublimity, to AI ethics, and politics that are both speculative and close to home.

My special guest this week is Gianni of Sifter, an Australian podcast network and video games website. Find them at sifter.com.au. Sifter interviewed Gareth Damian Martin about Citizen Sleeper on their Lightmap podcast series - find that episode here: https://www.sifter.com.au/post/citizen-sleeper-is-pure-dystopian-science-fiction-with-a-hopeful-heart.

You can also find a GITW interview with Gareth Damian Martin about their excellent first game, In Other Waters, here: https://anchor.fm/gaminginthewild/episodes/41-Interview---In-Other-Waters-Creator-Gareth-Damian-Martin-eptdml/a-a4hn21f

And as always, thanks for listening!

109: NORCO May 22, 2022

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NORCO is an intriguing new pixel-art point 'n' click adventure (wait, don't leave, trust me) published by Raw Fury. It tells the story of a strange family mystery occuring in a dystopian near-future Louisiana that's perhaps a little too close to comfort. It's an excellent indie game that wears influences such as Kentucky Route Zero and Disco Elysium on its sleeve, but manages to also be very much its own thing. A video of a Norco refinery that I mention in the show: https://youtu.be/OSYH8lOppsk If you enjoy the show, you can come say hi on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch - find the links at http://gaminginthewild.com. If you'd like to support the show on Patreon, you can do so from $1 per month and get exclusive episodes, sale recommendations, and an invite to the show’s Discord community – go to http://patreon.com/gaminginthewild for that. You can also support the show via Ko-Fi if that’s your preferred creator platform: http://ko-fi.com/gaminginthewild. And as always, thanks for listening!

108: NieR: Automata May 15, 2022

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NieR: Automata is a 2017 sci-fi masterwork by Yoko Taro and Platinum Games that smashes together widescreen anime-style melodrama, elegant killing machines in Harijuku couture, a tangled post-apocalyptic plot, and some lofty existential pondering. It's... a lot. It's a long episode. The Super Bunnyhop analysis of the game mentioned in the show: https://youtu.be/ehM1m5-TG5g. Also mentioned: Norco, NieR: Replicant, Bayonetta, Astral Chain. If you enjoy the show, you can come say hi on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch - find the links at http://gaminginthewild.com. If you'd like to support the show on Patreon, you can do so from $1 per month and get exclusive episodes, sale recommendations, and an invite to the show’s Discord community – go to http://patreon.com/gaminginthewild for that. You can also support the show via Ko-Fi if that’s your preferred creator platform: http://ko-fi.com/gaminginthewild. And as always, thanks for listening!

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