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Watch Out for Fireballs!

386: Citizen Sleeper

Watch Out for Fireballs!

Duckfeed.tv

Leisure, Comedy, Video Games

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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A different interpretation of translating a tabletop-lite system into a video game context. Story-heavy, mechanics driven by a sense of struggle, but not overwhelming despair. Build a new life yourself and those you meet and remember who your allies are.

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0:00.0

I'd like to begin this episode by thanking some people, people who bear a shocking resemblance

0:05.3

to Will's buddy Brian Porkins, Stone to Skeleton, and Jim K. These are all people who have

0:13.0

gone to patreon.com slash duck feed TV and kicked us some money and gotten cool stuff

0:18.8

in return, like premium episodes of this show, haul their shows. It's a lot. It's a lot.

0:26.1

You can be like them and go to patreon.com slash duck feed TV. Thank you.

1:26.1

My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. You're listening to Watch Out for Fireballs.

1:55.4

This is a game club podcast. And this week we are talking about citizen sleeper, which

2:00.7

is a role playing game developed by jump over the age and published by fellow traveler

2:05.9

for PC and contemporary consoles in 2022. Yeah, citizen sleepy. Yeah. Yeah. This is a

2:14.7

cool pick. Yeah. This was on my radar as a notable 2022 game. I didn't get to play.

2:22.9

Now my excuse to not play anything is that we'll do it for the show someday. And it's

2:26.3

always true. It's great. I could just I could just wait. But I wish I'd played it before

2:32.0

because this this occupies a really kind of great little space. Yeah. You don't give me

2:38.2

something in a six hour disco at lesion like. Yeah. Can I get like a like a like a snack

2:42.9

sized like just mechanically interesting enough but extremely like narratively satisfying

2:51.4

as a weird way to put this because like there's no one big story. It's a bunch of like

2:56.0

stories of little relationships. You know, like it's a weird, weird game by really, really

3:01.7

enjoy it. Me too. Yeah. It occupies a cool space like the same way that for years we've

3:07.0

been talking about how there should be the snack size JRPG. I also want the snack sized

3:11.1

western RPG. And this is the snack size western RPG. Yeah. You know, it's also along

3:16.9

with a disco. Elysium and my understanding a little bit of pen to mint. This kind of

3:23.9

really cool way that video games are now emulating other types of tabletop games. Not just

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