Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zanakhan. Today I am joined by freelance writer and host of the Total Massacre podcast, Rowan Kaiser. Hello.

And we also welcome back our friend from PC Meg, Mike Williams.

Hello, hello, folks. How's everybody doing today?

Doing pretty well, actually. I am in the one pocket of the country that's not enduring a massive heat wave.

So I really have no cause for complaint and consider myself pretty lucky. I'm excited that Mike is doing the full radio voice for us.

I, I, I, there's a little heat up here, but I'm excited that Mike is doing the full radio voice for us.

There's a little heat up here, but we have air conditioning, which I know is wild to some people.

But yeah.

Well, I mean, I have air conditioning too, but let me tell you, it is very quick to fall behind when the heat is bad.

There's air conditioning, and then there's like good air conditioning. And I think a lot of us are in that boat where it's like,

yeah, I can sort of, I can sort of condition the air, provided there's not too much of it.

I can keep it 10 degrees below what it is outside. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

All right, so today we are going to be discussing sword and axes dark deity, which has been broadly described as sort of a fire emblem style tactics game available on PC.

It is a RPG tactics game, you know, playing out on a square grid.

And Rowan, you felt pretty far down this rabbit hole when it first came out. What's, what's

Dark Deity about and what makes it interesting? Like when you say Fire Emblem, like it's kind of unfair to just say, yeah, this is a fire

emblem want to be for most things, but this is a game that you look at and you would say,

yeah, they're starting from a Fire Emblem base here.

This is, it looks very much like a JRP tactics game.

It has a really nice little 2D pixel art and animations.

That's one of the first things that made me sit up and say,

ooh, I will check this out.

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