Episode 419 - Nonbinary Witch Scythe or Bisexual Dagger?
Waypoint Radio
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4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Gita Jackson is on the pod today to tell Rob, Cado, and Patrick all about the different dates they've been on while delving into Boyfriend Dungeon. The crew discuss the content warning controversy around the game, how the visual novel genre has handled similar content in the past, and what “play with care” can mean for different people. After the break, Patrick checked out Axiom Verge 2, the sequel to the 2015 indie Metroidvania that leaves something to be desired. Rob is checking out Humankind, whose “Civ but not” tech trees seem to eschew the way cultures and history can build on top of each other by allowing you to jump between playing different real world civilizations depending on the era you’re in. Cado’s finished up the most recent Destiny 2 season, and feels like the Vanguard could’ve been implicated in some of the hatred towards The Fallen that the season focused on. Then in the question bucket we talk about LARPing.
Discussed: Boyfriend Dungeon 0:59, Axiom Verge 37:43, Humankind 52:30, Destiny 2 1:08:53, The Question Bucket 1:23:29
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet it's Monday, August 16th and you're listening to Waypoint Radio |
| 0:21.4 | episode 419 I'm your host Rob Zachney and today I am joined by Patrick Lappek. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello, Gita Jackson. Sup. Our producer Ricardo Contreras. You. |
| 0:34.0 | So Gita let's start with you because I think you are maybe playing the game that |
| 0:39.4 | is at least the hottest topic right now or was toward the end of last week, which is Boyfriend Dungeon. |
| 0:46.3 | Can you explain who the boyfriends are and why you were keeping them in your dungeon? |
| 0:50.5 | Okay, well I wasn't keeping them. They were voluntarily going with me. So, |
| 0:56.8 | no, if Boyfriend Dungeons is a game from Kit Fox Games, who I think the biggest hit they |
| 1:01.3 | had previous to this was probably the shrouded aisle, which was a very fun sort of management |
| 1:06.0 | sim where you play as a leader of a cult where every season a member of that cult must be sacrificed. |
| 1:12.1 | And there's other parameters there but it's very fun, very atmosphere, I feel a little game. |
| 1:16.5 | I don't know what you haven't grabbed it. I think it's super good. I played it again over the weekend. |
| 1:20.0 | I've been playing Boyfriend Dungeon because I was I finished Boyfriend Dungeon and I was like, |
| 1:24.1 | I mean, no more Boyfriends. All Dungeon now. Yes, exactly. Do they escape? |
| 1:29.1 | Do they escape my clutches? No, I have them forever. No, Boyfriend Dungeon is a game. |
| 1:34.4 | It's basically a dungeon crawler, but the weapons to use in the dungeon crawler are people |
| 1:39.2 | in this world. Some of them can turn into weapons and so you use them in the dungeon and lieu of |
| 1:44.4 | going on dates with them. Or in lieu in addition to it is a pretty straightforward little game. |
| 1:51.4 | I have been following this game since its Kickstarter is first announced like three years ago or |
| 1:56.6 | some days. I feel like this was a back when we went to things and saw people and things called |
| 2:02.0 | events. Yes. When I would go through like the indie section at Pax, like one of the staples was |
| 2:08.7 | to see Boyfriend Dungeon there and like glance at it for like a minute and be like, that looks really |
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