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and this week we're talking about Nick Cave Story a very strange dissident and

quite frankly downright psychosexual platformer from Australian developers Dawn and Colin Cave.

Yeah, in this game you play a pixelated and, don't know how to say it like unique looking

weird.

I'd say that yeah yeah yeah and he so you use your red right hand and you compose

this series of murder ballads and a series of stages?

Yeah, yeah, it's like a predecessor to Parapa.

Yeah, so the game has been praised for its use of drop d tuning

and atonal vocals and NME, which I think stands for new media electronic games,

the games being silent, called it one of the most enduring games to come out of Australia since

Sim Gallipoli.

Yeah, now, um, tell us a little bit about the plot, oh?

Gary?

Question for you, did we get the wrong game?

Um, maybe.

I was playing it and I thought it was real weird that there was that whole five minute cutscene

about how birds can't fly and fish can't swim and he's you

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