Watch Out for Fireballs! 309: The Magic Circle
Watch Out for Fireballs!
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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2016
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Thank you Joe!
You're trapped in an incomplete game, and given the power to rewrite your reality. It sounds amazing, and there are plenty of grace notes, but this game is a bit too messy for its own good, making broad points with broad characters in a way that left us both feeling a bit cold. A standout performance from James Urbaniak can't quite save this ambitious but flawed indie.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Watch Out for Fireballs is brought to you by our patrons, |
| 0:03.4 | specifically our patron Joe Martin. |
| 0:06.0 | If you would like to patronize us and support us, head on over to Patreon. |
| 0:10.1 | com slash Duck Feed TV. |
| 0:11.7 | Thank you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, And the My name is Gary Butterfield. |
| 1:03.0 | My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. |
| 1:14.4 | And I'll sing to Watch Out for Fireballs. It is a Games Club podcast. |
| 1:18.3 | And this week we are talking about the Magic Circle, which is an adventure game developed and published by question for the PC, |
| 1:26.0 | PS4, and Xbox 1 in 2015. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, thank goodness we're not doing sketches anymore because what kind of insular, meta-navele-gasing thing would we come up with? |
| 1:37.3 | It would probably be about being trapped in a podcast. |
| 1:40.3 | Probably be a lot. It would be like the Max Payne one. Yeah, except longer. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh, this episode is executive produced by Joe Martin. Thank you, Joe. |
| 1:54.1 | Really appreciate it. |
| 1:55.1 | This is a game I had some experience with. |
| 1:57.1 | We've covered this on Check It Out Comrade. |
| 1:59.4 | I was happy to revisit, even though I do have some kind of mixed feelings about it. The basic |
| 2:04.8 | gist is you play a QA tester who has dropped into an incomplete game as its |
| 2:10.1 | beleagueer developers try to get a demo ready for E4, the big expo. |
| 2:15.0 | Yes, one better than E3. |
| 2:19.0 | And the game within the game, kind of in the fiction here, |
| 2:22.0 | it is this remake of a famous online text adventure called |
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