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Episode 36 - Scary Games and PRIM Oct 30, 2024

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IT'S THE LAST EPISODE OF SPOOKY MONTH!

We hope you all have a great Halloween.

To help you one last time with your spooky mood, we talk about the SCARIEST GAMES WE'VE EVER PLAYED. WOOOOOO. And we talk about the new gothic point-and-click adventure game Prim. We love Deep Plots(TM).

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Games mentioned (some of them for only like a second, though):

Case of the Golden Idol
Rise of the Golden Idol
AI: The Somnium Files
Huniepop
Prim
Curse of Monkey Island
Chzos Mythos (Trilby Series)
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
The Last Door
Sanitarium
Phantasmagoria
Gabriel Knight and the Sins of the Father
Scratches
Phantom of the Opera
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
At Dead of Night
Slender: All Eight Pages
Dreams in the Witch House
7th Guest/11th Hour
Myst
Dagger of Amon Ra
Indika
Nightmare Frames
An English Haunting
Burnhouse Lane
Lorelei
The Cat Lady
A Hand With Many Fingers
Hans Christian Anderson: The Ugly Prince Duckling
Mazovian Adventures
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
Related: Chapter One – Everything is back
Lamplight City

Episode 35 - Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo Oct 23, 2024

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TEETH UPDATE! For the teeth enthusiasts and teeth curious, we unveil a brand new chapter in the PushingUpRoses Teeth Saga ™. Roses discovered a detective game that Matt’s been telling her about since day one and Matt played some demos!

Then, we dig deep into a world of horror, mystery, intrigue, and Japanese folklore in the Japanese ADV game Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. We have A LOT to say about this one, folks. So much in fact, that we skip our ranking segment this ep. Sorry everyone, but this game left us feeling inspired, frustrated, enamored, curious, and ready to pontificate like mad.

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Bowl of Lentils - The Origins of Visual Novels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wOtv-J7tOI

The Seven Wonders of Honjo: https://hyakumonogatari.com/2012/01/02/the-seven-wonders-of-honjo/

Games Mentioned:

Rise of the Golden Idol
Loco Motive
Proverbs
The Haunting of Joni Evers
The Suicide of Rachel Foster
The Fading of Nicole Wilson
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Disco Elysium
Cabernet
Fields of Mistria
Hatoful Boyfriend
Huniepop
Danganronpa
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Mystery House
Deja Vu
Final Fantasy
Paranormansight: The 13 Ghosts of Florida State University
(Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo)

Episode 34 - Hugo's House of Horrors trilogy Oct 16, 2024

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The first episode of the brand-new medical/dental advice podcast: Save Your Teeth! Call your Endodontist. Eat your allergy medicine. And don’t tell anyone we exist!

The spookiest thing about this installment of spooky month is that we played these games at all. Matt and Roses review the Hugo’s House of Horror trilogy and a 1990’s 3D shoot ‘em up??? Also we talk about Phantom Fellows, some random 1990’s platform games, have a quick PlayDate with Matt, and some cool games pop up on our REVIEW EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment!

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Games Mentioned:

The Phantom Fellows
Mythargia
Death’s Door
Tunic
The Simorgh
The Hugo’s House of Horrors Trilogy
Skunny: Save Our Pizzas (????)
Jazz Jackrabbit
Halloween Harry
Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventures
Commander Keen
Maniac Mansion
Nitemare 3D
Blakestone 3-D
Castle Wolfenstein 3-D
The Will of Arthur Flabbington
Blackwell Chronicles
Of Light and Darkness: The Prophecy
Lost Forest
The Last Door: Season One
Sentient
Ann Achronist: Many Happy Returns

Episode 33 - Fran Bow Oct 09, 2024

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Spooky Month takes a turn for the sad as we tackle a game about trauma, growing up, mental illness, and murder. Matt and Roses do a deep dive into Fran Bow. We also talk about some upcoming episodes and... a BOOK?! What are we, frickin nerds?

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Games Mentioned:

Phantom Fellows
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
The Ghost Stories of M.R. James (A BOOK, NOT A GAME)
Fran Bow
Banjo Kazooey
Moons of Madness
Dreamfall Chapters
The Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny
Mystery of the Nautilus
Phantasmagoria

Episode 32 - Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella & Paul Korman Oct 02, 2024

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Guess what folks? The season of spookiness is upon us, and your spooky queen PushingUpRoses reins it in with Matt Aukamp, the real-life inspiration for Jack Skellington and their terrifying guest, Paul Korman – The Phantom Fellow himself.

Paul talks to us about his newly-released game The Phantom Fellows (available on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1581490/The_Phantom_Fellows/and GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_phantom_fellows) and other various things about adventure games in general.

Then, we dive into the spooky-adjacent classic Sierra adventure Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella

Plus, PlayDate with Matt and ranking every adventure game ever!

Absconded.

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Games Mentioned:

Uno
Devil’s Hideout
The Heist of the Argonaut Limited
Post Hero
Bloom
SIMULACRA
Tender: Creature Comforts
Fields of Mistria
The Phantom Fellows
Strange Horticulture
King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
Miasmata
Violett
Free D.C.!
And Then There Were None
Clam Man

Episode 31 - Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars Sep 25, 2024

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Paris in the fall holds many memories for Matt and Roses. Memories of pushing their “woke” propaganda. Memories of pickles and olives.

Before we do our DEEP DIVE into the classic GRAND ADVENTURE from Revolution Software, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, we talk about our new Stardew-like obsession with Fields of Mistria. Who is your new romance? Marsh? Celine? Well don’t touch!! Because they’re ours. And then, go f*** your selfie, because Matt has some more to say about Life is Strange.

Then, we add 5 games to the ranked list of every adventure game ever.

(Also, we learn some important and not at all silly things about Dark Grim Mariupolis. If anyone has any info, btw, let us know. https://donate.khpg.org/en/ )

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Games Mentioned:

Fields of Mistria
Life is Strange
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (Circle of Blood)
Beneath a Steel Sky
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Cube Escape: The Lake
Midnight Girl
The 7th Guest (ew)
Dark Grim Mariupolis
Randal’s Monday
The Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit’s Eye

Episode 30 - Audience Recommendations Vol. 3 Sep 18, 2024

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Welcome in!

PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp take your recommendations seriously! And they prove it by playing four of them and reviewing them in this episode: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, The Journey Down, Voodoo Detective, and Life is Strange.

We also bring back some SPECIAL GUESTS for our RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME segment.

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Games Mentioned:

Muppets: Chaos at the Carnival or something
Fallout: New Vegas
The Abandoned Planet
Myst
Mars After Midnight
Pulpergeist
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
The Journey Down
The Dream Machine
Grim Fandango
Voodoo Detective
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
Curse of Monkey Island
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
The Slaughter: Act One
Life is Strange
Codename: ICEMAN
Deponia: Doomsday
Wavetale
A Whisper in the Twilight: Ch. 1
Ben There Dan That
Astronomica: The Quest for the Edge of the Universe

Episode 29 - Nostalgia and Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast Sep 11, 2024

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We're not here to fuck spiders, we're here to talk about Adventure Games with our brilliant and charming friends Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and the upcoming Rise of the Golden Idol!

We talk about nostalgia and the way it colors – or does not color – our views of games, and just goof the hell around.

So, I guess we were here to fuck spiders, after all.

Find Escape This Podcast and Solve This Murder at https://www.consumethismedia.com/

The episode with Roses and Matt is here: https://www.escapethispodcast.com/e/big-top-trouble-ft-save-your-game/

Wishlist Rise of the Golden Idol on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/The_Rise_of_the_Golden_Idol/

And finally, email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
Horizon Forbidden West
Crusader Kings
Tunic
Death’s Door
Animal Well
Nancy Drew series
Rise of the Golden Idol
Case of the Golden Idol
A Case of Mistrust
Little Witch in the Woods
Final Fantasy VIII, VI, VII, X
Fields of Mistria
Stardew Valley
Myst
Riven
Grim Fandango
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Kings Quest VII
The Realm Online
Quest 64
Quest for Glory I
Granny’s Garden
Tex Murphy: Mean Streets
Pokemon Gold & Silver
7th Guest VR
11th Hour
The 13th Doll
Kessen II
CLUE
Murderous Muses
Telling Lies
The Infections Madness of Doctor Dekker
Science Sleuths Vol. 1
Déjà Vu
Normality

Episode 28 - Strange Horticulture Sep 04, 2024

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This week we talk about a spooky cozy casual mystery plant game called Strange Horticulture that rules. Also, Matt raves about Fallout: New Vegas, Roses has a stylish mystery game to talk about and we rank a bunch of adventure games, ridiculously.

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Games Mentioned:

A Case of Mistrust
Fallout: New Vegas
Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Strange Horticulture
Botany Manor
Assemble With Care
Unpacking
Return to the Obra Dinn
Case of the Golden Idol
Papers, Please
In Other Waters
Dredge
Strange Antiquities
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator Case 7: The Cardinal Sins
Batman: Partners in Peril
Amnesia: Rebirth
Portal
Again

Episode 27 - Dialogue: What Makes it Good? Aug 28, 2024

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PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk about dialogue trees in adventure games; What makes them good? What makes them bad? Do you skip them? Matt says some stuff that's likely to get him cancelled by Sierra-heads. Plus, PlayDate with Matt and RANKING EVERY ADVENTURE GAME EVER.

We don't know. Whatever makes sense.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

The Crimson Diamond
King’s Quest IV
Fallout: New Vegas
The Keyper
Mars After Midnight
Papers, Please
Grim Fandango
Disco Elysium
The Curse of Monkey Island
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town
The Adventures of the Black Hawk
Legend of Skye
King’s Quest V and VI
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Danganronpa series
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series
Hatoful Boyfriend
HuniePop
Murder, She Wrote (The Game!)
Dark Grim Mariupolis
Byzantine: The Betrayal
Minecraft: Story Mode

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