What Remains of Edith Finch – Cane and Rinse No.522

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Cane and Rinse

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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An interactive rumination on what death means to the living, is one way to describe Giant Sparrow's follow-up to The Unfinished Swan. Or, a walking simulator set in a big house is another. Leon, Brian, Leah, Tony and community correspondents follow in the Finch's footsteps to attempt to decide for themselves whether they believe a curse, fate or simply the fragile nature of existence is at play in What Remains of Edith Finch.

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0:00.0	The Thank you. I'm Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rinse podcast, volume 11, issue 522.
1:01.9	And today we're going to talk about what remains of Edith Finch.
1:07.2	Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue are Brian Edwards.
1:11.0	Hello, hello.
1:12.2	Leah Heydo.
1:13.1	Hiya.
1:13.9	And Tony Atkins.
1:15.1	Hello.
1:16.6	What remains of Edith Finch is a walking simulator.
1:22.9	To be reductive about it, it's not a term I'm massively fond of, but I don't reject it either.
1:28.4	But I think it's a term rather like phone that we describe those devices that we all now carry around with us and depend upon and do everything.
1:39.4	Calling a game of a walking simulator feels a bit inadequate, shall we say.
1:45.2	So what remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington
1:50.0	State.
1:51.2	As Edith, you'll explore the colossal Finch House searching for stories as she explores her family
1:57.3	history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left
2:01.8	alive. That's the official blur. And I looked, I looked this up earlier just because I thought it
2:06.1	was a curious fact that Leah and I are geographically closer to you to than we are to Washington
2:12.8	State. No way. Yes. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's about as far away from us while still being in the landlock, United States.
2:23.1	Oh, that's weird.
2:24.1	Yeah, not counting Alaska or Hawaii, yeah.
2:26.4	That's how big America is, right?
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