Tunic – Cane and Rinse No.655

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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“Dear Player. You've come a long way, haven't you?” Lead developer Andrew Shouldice stuffed every single corner of Tunic's world with secrets and mysteries, and created a wonderfully faithful, detailed and devious retro-style game manual to help and/or baffle players. Tom, Brian and Chris delve deep into the indie adventure, assessing its controversial combat and widely beloved soundtrack. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_655.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. To Far Shores by Terence Lee/Janice Kwan2. The Captain by Terence Lee/Janice Kwan edited by Jay TaylorYou can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	The Welcome everybody to issue 655 of the Canaan Rince podcast.
0:42.8	We're in volume 14 and we're going to cover today my pick for this volume, Tunic.
0:49.7	Joining me, Thomas Quilfelt, in this issue is Brian Edwards.
0:53.5	Hello, hello.
0:55.2	And Chris O'Regan.
0:56.8	Hello.
0:58.7	Tunic is a game about a little fox in an adorable isometric world.
1:04.9	Or is it just that?
1:06.1	I'm going to put up the spoiler wall nice and early here, because if you haven't played this game go away honestly
1:14.5	this game is all secrets all spoiler to to experience it is to not know about it essentially so
1:23.0	that said we welcome you all who are sticking around and want to hear the chat about Tunic.
1:30.8	I would further the description of it as a game about a little fox and say it's a Zelda-ish, Dark Souls-ish, Metroid-ish, Fez-ish,
1:42.7	and a little bit of Monument Valley-inspired isometric adventure with a dense layer of puzzles and secrets.
1:50.6	We have not a completely solo developer here, but the game that was sort of fronted by one person, Andrew Sholdice,
1:59.6	and he got started making this game in February
2:04.0	2015 under the quite telling working title of Secret Legend. It's his first sort of proper,
2:14.3	air quotes, larger game. He'd had done some game jam games before. And it kind of
2:20.8	blew up a little bit really early on through Twitter and Vine of all things as one of those
2:27.4	games that I like to call a game that gives good GIF, basically, or in this case gives good
2:33.2	kind of early, you know, alpha demo where people
2:36.4	see it and are immediately kind of enchanted by the idea of going through this sort of colorful
2:42.4	world with a little fox. And presumably that gave him a sort of nice little boost to keep going
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