Hello everybody, welcome to the cane and rinse podcast, Volume 14 14, issue 678. And today we're going to be

talking about Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, and Gauntlet 4. And joining me, Wizard, Leon Cox, in this issue,

we have Warrior Chris Worthington. Oh, nice, I'll take that. Thyra the Valkyrie, Mikiel Kroda.

Ah! And Questor, Dean Swain. I'll take that. Thira the Valkyrie, Mikiel Kroda. Ah.

And Questor, Dean Swain.

Elf is about to die.

Hopefully not.

That would be a disappointing end to a pleasant evening.

We've yet to lose anyone permanently during a recording,

but there's a first time for everything.

Well, I don't want to be the first.

I don't want to be involved at all in that respect.

Gornlet was, along with the sequels that we're covering,

a top-down, I'm making little air quotes here,

2D fantasy action dungeon crawler, but while the game plays top down in that

your eight way joystick moves your character eight ways on the screen or that sort of thing,

the visuals are ever so slightly tilted so that you can see what's going on.

So you haven't just got little heads for the most part.

You have actually got a bit more visibility, but that's more of an artistic flourish.

Yeah, and it's a bit inconsistent almost, right?

Because some objects and some enemies do look very top down, like some of the spawners and the,

and the ghosts look very much like top down, you know?

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