269: Axiom Verge

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Leisure, Comedy, Video Games

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

Metroidvanias are pretty common, but games that aim to ape the original Metroid are few and far between. Axiom Verge is a 2015 indie game with a distinct glitchy NES aesthetic and some pretty great powerups. It also has some problems with its combat and main character. You can't take away the beauty of those sprite designs or that music, however.

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0:00.0	Hi, I would like to begin this episode by thanking you and Roberts, Nick Kerel, Graham, Chris Lees, and A Zuke.
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0:28.0	That's all. Listen to this episode. Thank you. Oh, Oh, My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to
1:37.2	watch out for Fireballs. It is a Games Club podcast. And this week we're
1:40.4	talking about Axiom Verge, which is a Metroidvania game developed and published by Thomas Hap for the PC and consoles in 2015.
1:49.0	And next week we'll be doing Manuel Verge, and then finally we'll be doing Decor Verge at the at the end of the month as the
1:56.7	premium episode. Yeah and then the super premium one's gonna be the QAnon remix.
2:02.4	Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can end about.
2:05.0	So this is an executive produced episode.
2:10.0	This one produced by Nicholas Wild. Thank you.
2:14.2	Thank you. Appreciate you. Yeah and we're gonna we're gonna get into it.
2:18.9	This is we have our interesting month here where like to me you know it is it is the flawed but
2:25.4	ambitious indie metro advenia month where the first one I liked a little bit more
2:30.0	than Cole deal and this one Cole likes a little bit more than me and it's a classic brave
2:34.1	Fensor Musashi showdown. By which you mean it's like you're 60-40 on one and I'm 60-40 on one
2:40.6	Exactly. Well I think I think brave-f not she's probably like 2080. Yeah but a little closer to that.
2:46.8	This is something too that like I was looking at it and rewatching the boss fights to remind myself of.
2:52.6	And I know that Nicholas, you know, who produced the thing
2:55.8	is a really big fan.
2:56.5	I just want to throw in my blanket caveat
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