Three Moves Ahead 544: Darkest Dungeon II Early Access

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Rowan recruits Fanbyte's Steven Strom and long-lost guest Jason Wilson to take a look at Darkest Dungeon II in early access. That's right, five years later we finally put out an episode with Darkest Dungeon in the title. How does it differ from its predecessor? And which of the changes do we actually like? How do we feel about the fact that they can kiss now? How do we feel about a sequel that is deliberately smaller in scope than the original?

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to three moves ahead. I am your host today, Rowan Kaiser, also host of the Total Massacre podcast on action movies and freelance writer and consultant.
0:13.9	Today, we are joined by Jason Wilson, ex-editor of Gamespeat and my former boss.
0:22.6	Hi.
0:23.6	And Steven Strom from Fanbite is rejoining us.
0:27.7	Hello.
0:28.4	I think this is actually my third move on three moves ahead.
0:33.1	Is that correct?
0:34.0	You get a special prize for that.
0:36.1	Oh.
0:36.7	It's called feeling superior to other people.
0:39.7	Oh, I love that.
0:40.8	It's like one of my favorite prizes.
0:42.8	That's a good prize.
0:43.7	This is my first show since 2014.
0:46.6	We've been in Forelock 2.
0:48.8	So this is especially exciting.
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:54.3	Today we're talking about Darkest Dungeon 2, which just got released in early access.
0:59.7	Darkest Dungeon has been a favorite of three moves ahead since it came out.
1:05.1	But we never actually did a full show on it.
1:07.5	We did a bunch of shows that mentioned it.
1:09.6	I think our tactical management show was one of my favorites, where we talked about the sort of
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