Audible Impressions: Dust An Elysian Tail
4Player Podcast
Nick Henderson
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Arriving with the Summer of Arcade 2012 line up, Dust An Elysian Tail is a member of a genre that's seeing a declining membership these days: 2D metroidvanias. With that said, Nolan and Nick take a look at this beautifully animated title for this week's Audible Impressions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hey, everybody, welcome to four-player podcast. This is another episode of Audible Impressions. |
| 0:38.2 | My name is Nick Henderson, and I am joined by Nolan Hedstrom. |
| 0:42.6 | Hey, guys, how's it going? |
| 0:44.2 | And we're here today to talk about the game called Dust and Allegiant Tale for Xbox Live Arcade. |
| 0:52.8 | It's a 2D side-scrolling, platforming... |
| 0:57.0 | RPG... |
| 0:58.0 | Crazy furry game. |
| 1:02.0 | Yep. |
| 1:03.0 | I think that's the exact definition of the game. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, if you Wikipedia, that is what it says. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm actually reading it off the screen. |
| 1:10.0 | It's developed by a studio called Humble Hearts, published by Microsoft. |
| 1:14.7 | And yeah, this is a game we talked a little bit about coming off of E3. It was part of the Summer of Arcade. |
| 1:22.4 | And, you know, when we first played it at E3, we were kind of down on the game. And, you know, we've been kind of negative on Summer Arcade this year, just because some of the games haven't been too hot. |
| 1:33.3 | And it's a real shame, because the past few years have been really strong. |
| 1:36.8 | And this year, there really wasn't any winners until we came across this game. |
| 1:41.9 | And I think to all of our surprise, we were pretty shocked by how good this game is. |
| 1:48.0 | I know Brad ended up playing it for like what, like six or seven hours straight one day. |
| 1:51.3 | Yeah, he played it a lot. |
| 1:53.1 | Yeah, it's crazy. |
| 1:53.9 | So you and I started it this week so we could talk about it on the show. |
| 1:58.4 | And you're a little farther than I am. |
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