There’s a Cavern Of Lies to test Nate’s coolness, and we check in with Henry “The Vit” Cavill, but first, of course, we must litigate the different kinds of cool we feel, what counts as cool, and which games make us feel the coolest. You can listen above, or on on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, or Pocket Casts. You can find the RSS feed here, and you can discuss the episode on our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat. Music is by Jack de Quidt. Links Nate opens strong with Crab Fight, a game about crab’s fighting. Big discussion of the relative coolness of stealth sims like Hitman, Dishonored and Deus Ex. There’s a bit of the Batman Arkham games in there, and even Shadow Of Mordor as well. Is it cool to be just, like, a cool adventurer? Kratos in God Of War is pretty cool, as are the fabulous Drake brothers in Uncharted. Nate does actually find a way to talk about Age Of Empires II, which is fair, because he became pretty good at competetive play. Games like Factorio allow you to master complexities as well. What about well hard games? My favourite soulslike is Bloodborne. I continue my streak of mentioning Saturnalia every week by describing how finishing horror games makes me feel cool. We talk about how it’s cool to be smart, but not cool to want people to think you’re smart. Genesis Noir is the former. Recommendations this week are Jenny Nicholson’s almost four-hour video essay on sort-of-cancelled theme park Evermore, and 80s window sales sitcom White Gold.
