Three Moves Ahead 296: Sunless Sea

Three Moves Ahead

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Games & Hobbies, War Games, War, Strategy Games, Games, Strategy, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Bruce, Julian, and Fraser set sail in the macabre and fascinating land of Sunless Sea. Based on the setting of the browser game Fallen London, Sunless Sea fills out its bingo card quickly as a roguelite-RPG-text adventure-FTL-Lovecraftian-ship simulator. Learn why this game is generating gobs of praise and high scores and also why there is an island named after Bruce.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene.
0:03.5	Join to me today is a modified version of the regular panel.
0:07.8	First, we welcome my colleague over at PC Games End, Fraser Brown.
0:11.0	Fraser, welcome to the show.
0:12.4	Hello, pleasure to be here as always.
0:14.9	We also welcome back, our elite irregular panelist, Bruce Garrick.
0:19.8	Hello gamers.
0:38.3	That was an extra creepy one, Bruce. You're in fine form today. I can tell this is going to be a good show. Well, the subject matter kind of brings it out in me. And we also welcome, after a bit of a hiatus, our buddy, Julian Murdoch. I'm not going to be creepy at all. Not more than usual.
0:39.9	Just normal bald guy creepy.
0:40.3	Yeah.
0:41.7	You let the game do it for you.
0:42.6	Exactly.
0:49.3	So today we're going to be talking about fail better games, Sunless Sea, a naval, roguelike adventure set in the world of Fallen London, which is their text adventure of the same name.
0:56.6	We've all been playing it quite a bit these last few weeks, and if you've played Sunless
1:00.7	See at All, you'll even find a bit of a monument to Dr. Garrick, a particularly
1:06.7	hideous little island called Garrick Scalpel.
1:11.1	I hope you guys don't have to go there. I like Troy's comment about... kidious little island called Garrick Scalpel. So...
1:12.0	I hope you guys don't have to go there.
1:13.8	I like Troy's comment about it,
1:15.3	that it was filled with gorillas and panzers.
1:18.0	Ironically, I have foundered off the coast
1:20.2	of Garrick Scalpel twice.
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