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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 501: Othercide

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rob and T.J. are joined by freelance writer Astrid Johnson to discuss goth girl tactics game Othercide.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.2

Join to me tonight, we have freelance writer, T.J. Hafer.

0:07.6

Hello.

0:09.0

And we are also joined by freelance writer, Astra Johnson.

0:13.2

Hello.

0:15.6

So today, we are going to be discussing Other side, a tactics game of a sort after a fashion

0:26.2

with very distinctive style from Lightbulb crew and published by Focus Home Interactive.

0:32.8

And I started to run into trouble just describing like the outline of what this game is.

0:38.1

Because saying it's a tactics game and it's in the vein at Xcom, I already feel at that

0:42.4

point I'm already kind of lying.

0:45.1

Astrid, what the hell is the other side?

0:48.7

Oh boy.

0:49.9

So it's, hmm.

0:53.4

It's like, so it is a tactics game.

0:55.1

It is a tactics game.

0:56.1

You're moving...

0:58.0

You're moving your little...

1:01.0

your little sort of fighting people around on the map.

1:05.6

And you're making them fight the bad ones.

1:07.9

So in that sense, it is like X-com, isn't it?

1:11.6

But instead of it being big, sort of like meaty thumb men in cyber armor,

1:17.1

it's a bunch of moody goth ladies with red scarves.

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