Tales from the Borderlands – Cane and Rinse No.408

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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"I have the shiniest meat bicycle." For this week's podcast, Jesse Fuchs makes his Cane and Rinse hosting debut with a discussion focused on Telltale Games' episodic point-and-click adventure title, Tales from the Borderlands. Joining him for this issue are Tom and Josh, along with gainful contributions from the community. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_408.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. Lonely Road by Jared Emerson-Johnson 2. Bossanova by Jared Emerson-Johnson Cane and Rinse 408 was edited by Jay Taylor Don't forget, you can get an extended Cane and Rinse podcast a week early if you support our Patreon for just $2 a month! Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to issue 408, volume 9 of Canaan Rince, Tales from the Borderlands.
0:44.5	Joining me, Jesse Fuchs in this issue, are Joshua Garrity.
0:48.9	Hello there.
0:50.6	And Tom Quilfelt.
0:52.6	Catch a ride.
0:55.4	Excellent. Up a ride. Excellent.
0:57.0	Upcoming issues, we have Yakuza Zero,
1:00.7	Donkey Kong Jungle Beat,
1:02.2	Securo, Shadows Die Twice, Dying Light, and Florence.
1:07.0	But for today, we'll be discussing Tales in the Borderlands,
1:10.7	the 2015 Telltale game.
1:13.7	Comes out in five episodes between the end of 2014 and near the end of 2015.
1:20.5	I'd like to read a bit of the introduction to Duncan Fife's oral history of Tales in the Borderlands,
1:25.2	which you can find online.
1:28.8	And if you enjoy listening to this episode, there's a lot of interesting information in there. But this is why he wrote that
1:33.4	oral history, quote, the game clicks right away with the sheer goofy joy of Riss and Vaughn crash
1:38.7	landing on Pandora, then driving away to jungle's busy earning. Why is the opening song that good? Why is there a licensed soundtrack at all?
1:46.4	In Tales from the Borderlands, all the important things are better than they need to be better than the obvious choice.
1:51.6	The game feels like something striving to escape the gravity of its limitations,
1:55.5	and more often than not surpassing them.
1:57.8	Playing Tales is the most satisfying kind of thrill,
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