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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 449: Frozen Synapse 2

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Frozen Synapse 2 is here, bringing combat that is an intricately planned and delicate ballet that ends with a shotgun to the face. Rob, Jon Bolding, and Troy "Wait, you said we were just going out to ride Tron bikes" Goodfellow plan and shoot their way through a cyperpunk collection of hallways and doors.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

0:03.3

Tonight, we welcome back our friend, 3MA founder, Troy Goodfellow.

0:08.3

Hello, everyone.

0:09.9

And joining us tonight, we've also got back once again freelance writer John Bolting.

0:15.4

Howdy, howdy.

0:16.9

We're not talking about cardboard tonight, John.

0:19.3

I know. I'm finally getting in for some pixels.

0:22.2

Just laying waste to that brand.

0:24.1

You preciously built that, like, John, tabletop boulding.

0:30.4

Fuck it, video games.

0:31.8

That's what we're talking about tonight.

0:33.1

When not even the people who are good at board games can find the money, I can't either.

0:39.6

So tonight we're going to be talking about Mode 7's Frozen Synapse 2. The long-awaited sequel

0:47.5

to Frozen Synapse, which I think was one of the first shows I was on all the way back

0:52.9

in the early days of three moves ahead.

0:56.0

So this is sort of a sequel to a very deep cut in 3MA history.

1:02.4

Troy, you may remember those days, a little bit at least.

1:06.8

What's Frozen Synapse?

1:08.6

And what's new in this one?

1:12.6

Oh God.

1:13.6

What's new is a hard question to ask.

1:14.8

I barely remember the first one.

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