30 episodes
Wide Flank - Video Game Book Club Wide Flank
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5.0 • 10 Ratings
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We pick a game, play it, then hang out and talk about it. It's a book club for video games. Join us every month as we play classics, recent releases, nostalgia trips, the peculiar, and everything in between. Most of the time we don't know what we're talking about, but we have fun doing it. Play the game and join us! Us being Alon, Danny, and Teddy. Our friendship was born in Counter-Strike, but we became family during PUBG. We're always looking for feedback and questions -- send us some game suggestions and we'll try to play it at some point!
Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/wideflank
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Slay the Spire & Balatro - Now Playing
Alon’s joined by Teddy and Madeline talking about two games we’re playing in the saaaaameish genre: Slay the Spire and Balatro. Comparison may be the thief of joy but also it’s really fun to do bad things (like being really greedy in card games). Let’s dive in.
The next episode will be the first in our Majora’s Mask Gameclub! Play along!
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Show Notes:
Often mentioned Eggplant episode with LocalThunk (creator of Balatro): https://eggplant.show/136-going-in-blind-with-balatro
Slay the Spire Discord: https://discord.com/invite/slaythespire -
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Episode 3/3 - Gameclub
The game is over and the credits are rolling! This is the grand finale episode of the Ocarina of Time Gameclub and for this one we played from the Fire Temple through beating the entire game. There are a lot of spoilers in this episode, and this game is kinda unhinged.
Did we get every heart piece? No. Did we get every skulltula? No. But we had a fun time playing through a great journey and a great game.
Not sure yet what’s next, but it might be Majora’s Mask. Stay tuned.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro and how we felt completing the game.
02:16 - What did we remember and game manuals.
05:04 - Fire Temple
11:39 - Volvagia fight and boss fights in general
15:14 - Ice Cavern
19:04 - Water Temple; actually good?
30:25 - Water Temple could have been the first temple
32:20 - Morpha fight
33:48 - Z-targeting and projectile speed
36:43 - Alon got stuck again
38:25 - I’m not supposed to be here yet
40:41 - Coddle me or don’t, time travel paradox, and under the well
44:32 - Iron Boots vs Lens of Truth
47:35 - Shadow Temple
51:20 - Hover boots / worst item in the game
58:06 - Gerudo Valley, Desert Colossus, and Spirit Temple
01:04:32 - Could have been more time travel stuff
01:12:12 - Sheik is Zelda???
01:19:06 - Secrets (unless it’s mandatory) and exploring
01:25:54 - Ganon’s Castle and boss fights
01:39:05 - Outro
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Episode 2/3 - Gameclub
Is this game good or stale or dated? No, it turns out this game still rules.
We played all the way through the Forest Temple for this episode and talked about solving the puzzles, the combat, being a kid, the music, time, Navi, technology, and more. Hey, listen!
Next episode we’re recording after beating the whole damn game.
Dan Bruno article: https://danbruno.net/writing/ocarina/
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Episode 1/3 - Gameclub
How many episodes will there be? Time will tell. We're going with the flow.
For this episode Dugan and Alon are a couple of hours into Ocarina of Time and we’re talking about our progress so far, Dark Souls, the difficulty, the vibes, the nostalgia, and more.
Next episode we’re recording after the first three dungeons.
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The Shape of Wide Flank to Come
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from" – T. S. Eliot
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Citizen Sleeper - Gameclub
Special guest Damon coming in hot off the press for this episode. We basically rediscover books and what is good about reading because that's mostly what Citizen Sleeper is, a good old picture book. There are also some dice rolls and currency management but they don’t mean that much after you get rolling ^_^.
We forgive the lack of difficulty because this game has style, beautiful descriptions of mushrooms, and a critique of capitalism that hits hard.
Next Gameclub we’re doing Hollow Knight.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Note about the show
0:51 - Intro
3:30 - What kind of game is this
8:00 - Mechanics
12:30 - Writing
21:20 - Difficulty?
26:39 - How to pick a direction
38:45 - “Classes”
50:00 - Characters
58:00 - Capitalism
1:03:00 - Ratings
Show Notes:
Hollow Knight - https://store.steampowered.com/app/367520/Hollow_Knight/
80 days (iOS) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/80-days/id892812659
Frostpunk (Steam) https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/
This War of Mine (Steam) https://store.steampowered.com/app/282070/This_War_of_Mine/
Subterra (Boardgame) https://www.gamenerdz.com/sub-terra-core-game
Papers Please (Steam) https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/
Slay the Spire (Steam) https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/
Customer Reviews
Review
Excellent podcast, goes into depth about the games
Such a great show
Fun remembering older video game
This is a fun show
Hey this is teddy. I rated making this podcast 5/5 starts