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**Watch Out for Fireballs!**

Watch Out for Fireballs! is a game club podcast that covers video games from every era, from retro to newer releases, indie to AAA. Each week we dive deep into the game’s mechanics and narrative to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Hosted by Gary Butterfield and Kaye Ross, this show has been going since 2011. New episodes every Thursday. For full versions of our premium episodes, back us at patreon.com/duckfeedtv!

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Episode 216: The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine (Side Quests) Nov 22, 2018

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Our Witcher 3 saga draws to a close as we talk about Geralt's extracurricular activities in Toussaint.

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Episode 215: The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine (Main Quest) Nov 15, 2018

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The world of the Witcher 3 is almost completely dark and grim, where moral ambiguity reigns supreme. So it's strange for Geralt's tale to end in Toussaint, which is picturesque and relatively calm... except for the murders. It's also a land of chivalric values that seem nice at first but are actually pretty backwards.

This massive expansion sees Geralt working with an old friend to hunt down the Beast of Beauclaire, a vampire who is murdering nobles. However, things get wildly out of hand as palace intrigue takes hold.

Blood and Wine is not uniformly good, nor is it as singularly brilliant as Hearts of Stone. But it's a good farewell.

This episode covers the main quest, while next week's episode will feature all of the side content.

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Episode 214: Playing Games Wrong Nov 08, 2018

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We originally intended for our live episode at Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2018 to be about Super Smash Bros. Melee. However, we figured something out... we don't like playing Smash Bros. competitively. This led us down a rabbit hole that ultimately made us change our plans... What does it mean to play games wrong. Is it even possible? Is that a real or fake idea?

So we turned the episode into an editorial, talking about different ways to play games wrong, and giving a few examples of our favorite games to break.

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Atomic! Nov 04, 2018

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This very special WOFF is brought to you by the Atomic! Kickstarter backers.

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Episode 213: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Nov 01, 2018

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Watch out! Behind you! You'll hear that a lot in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, a game from Ninja Theory that goes all in on the gimmick of using 3D sound to approximate audio hallucinations. We talk through this remarkable "AAA indie game", which has a young woman venturing into the Norse underworld to rescue the soul of the one she loves. Unfortunately, not everthing is fantastic here, since there's a bunch of nonsense filler in the game.

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Listener Responses: October 2018 (Indie Horror Month) Oct 25, 2018

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Let's hear your responses to Night in the Woods, and the other indie horror games we did in October!

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Episode 212: Night in the Woods Oct 18, 2018

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Mumblecore playdates with a tinge of existential, cosmic dread. That's a succinct summation of Night in the Woods, the capstone for our indie horror month. This is a beautiful, charming game that goes to great lengths to endear you to its cast. It sensitively and deftly portrays issues of mental illness, poverty, and faith. We just wish it didn't have structural problems, because they result in the game hiding its light under a bushel. Let me hang with Germ Warfare, please!

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Episode 211: Micro-Horror Special Oct 11, 2018

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As we continue Indie Horror Month, we're excited to do something a little different. There are so many great little experimental horror games that wouldn't bear a full episode, but are worth talking about. So we gathered up a bunch of micro-horror games and created a special episode about them. They are:

IMSCARED
Haunted Cities, vol. 1 and vol. 2
Lost Constellation
My Father's Long Long Legs

And that's all. Don't stick around to the end of the episode because there's nothing more. Nosiree.

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Episode 210: Penumbra: Overture Oct 04, 2018

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You can run and you can hide... and not much else. That's something Frictional learned in making Penumbra: Overture, a strange predecessor to their more widely acclaimed Amnesia: The Dark Descent. You play as Phillip, a professor who follows in the footsteps of his presumed-dead father and ends up in a heap of trouble in an Arctic mine. Come hear what makes this strange indie horror game so foundational to modern horror games.

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