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The Besties

In The Alters, Life Comes at You Fast

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Alters is one of the year’s most interesting games, blending experimental sci-fi narrative with a clever management simulation. The Besties talk about how the game’s mechanics clock together, why the story deserved more space, and what makes the developers’ use of AI so irritating. Plus, Plante played an awesome Persona/SMT spin-off

Transcript

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0:00.0

it really does sound like you're in a haunted house it's it feels like they're they're

0:07.4

they want to be part of the show it added a whole real surreal lynchian quality to the conversation

0:13.7

like a telltale heart sort of like the ship is creaking beneath us sort of vibe just keep in mind

0:19.2

rachel according to Rachel,

0:21.2

none of this stuff is audible, at least in my audio file.

0:24.1

So if we reference it, she had to, like, physically add it back into the audio file.

0:28.4

There is no way it today is.

0:31.2

I think in the past, it's softer.

0:32.5

This is the, no, dude, this is the craziest it's been.

0:35.0

This is got worse it truly sounds like you are being like

0:38.4

on the titanic and you are working the holes

0:41.6

yeah and i and this is not we're not saying that you know how

0:45.1

sometimes we start saying things in a funny cold open way

0:47.7

that's like well this must be the cold open this isn't that i mean it probably

0:51.2

will be because it's so real and raw, but like, this is it for this.

0:54.8

We haven't, we haven't counted, though, so like, we haven't even count. We're going to have to

0:57.8

count after, so they have to sink a reverse. But how do you sink something that already

1:01.8

happened? Do you know what I mean? Like, you're on some tenant shit right now, and I'm having

1:05.2

trouble following you. Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon. I don't, I've never really quite understood what that meant.

1:11.8

Exactly, Griffin.

1:12.7

And you never, ever, ever, ever, ever will.

1:16.4

Is that what she says in the song?

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