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Describing The Skybox

Describing The Skybox

WELCOME TO DESCRIBING THE SKYBOX! We are a fortnightly, book club-styled podcast in which we attempt to go in-depth on an individual video game and figure out what makes it unique. Episodes are around an hour to an hour and a half long and primarily feature free form discussion on themes and mechanics present in each episode’s titular game. Bear in mind that we are not reviewers, so as far as we critique the games at hand, our intent is not to convince you to play any particular work. SPOILER

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00:43:47

NOCLIP Pocket E56 - Gorgon Conclusions - Killing Zone

Describing The Skybox ·

2022/02/19

Sensational 3-D Podcast! Hooooo boy, welcome back to the podcast. This week, as part of Fanbruary, we’re talking about Killing Zone, a PS1 fighting game starring some conspicuously public domain monsters. You might ask, is this game good? That’s a really fair question. No, it’s not great, for sure, but what it does provide is nostalgia (and at least one pretty cool idea, but I’ll get to that later). Sure, maybe your favorite games are actually good, but I bet all of you have at least one game

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01:33:13

Episode 125 - Strawberry Laser - Everspace

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2022/02/13

You’re a podcast? Then why didn’t you attack on sight? Welcome back! This month is Fanbruary, which means that we are playing games suggested to us by our audience, and the very first we’ve chosen to cover is Everspace. This is a space combat game with a rougelite framework, seeing you making runs through six different “Sectors” to explore and collect resources and starting from the beginning each time you die. The “lite” part of the genre title comes in the form of credits, the game’s

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00:50:29

NOCLIP Pocket E55 - The Birdboss Challenge -...

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2022/01/30

This sacred podcast is one of the few untouched spots. Welcome back to NOCLIP pocket! Today, we’re going to be talking about Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight, which is the fourth game in the Momodora series, but the first one to really take off. This is a Metroidvania game, but one that is surprisingly compact. It’s fairly rare in the genre to have a game this short, and it brings with it some disadvantages but also some surprising advantages. The smaller map makes backtracking and

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01:42:18

Episode 124 - Imagine Skin - Metroid Dread

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2022/01/23

You have been stripped of most abilities. You might call it podcast amnesia. Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about Metroid Dread, the 5th mainline 2D Metroid game, which is admittedly a lot of qualifiers. Dread picks up following the events of Fusion, a game that was nearly 19 years old at Dread’s release, and carries over its story elements as well as some of the design that made Fusion feel different from the games that preceded it. For example, Dread feels like

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00:46:27

NOCLIP Pocket E54 - Humble Bumble - Wandersong

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2022/01/15

I hope I was able to prove I’m more handy than the average podcast. Welcome back! Our first game of 2022 is going to be Wandersong, the indie adventure game that refused to just be an indie adventure game. In this game, you play a Bard who is clued in to the forthcoming apocalypse and sets out on an adventure to save the world. Carried by an immutable (literally and figuratively) enthusiasm, the Bard overcomes obstacles using a combination of song and some light platforming mechanics. Tonally,

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01:20:21

The NOCLIP Awards 2021 - Non Falafel Content for Eating

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2022/01/08

We’re rolling out the green carpet, and not just to play executive golf. The NOCLIP Awards are our most important annual tradition, and we’re back again this year with a new crop of categories alongside our old favorites. Find out what game did jumping the worst, which game focused the most on its mechanics and least on anything else, and join us as we figure out which host knows the other the best in our own version of the Newlyweds Game. All this and many (or at least some) more will be debated

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01:54:01

Episode 123 - 3,000 Emails - Life is Strange: True...

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2021/12/18

Bah! What a thankless life! Being a podcaster in the age of monsters! Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about Life is Strange: True Colors, because we just can’t quit this series apparently. The third game follows the gameplay precedents the series has adhered to thus far, being an adventure game in the “Telltale style” (a term that seems more and more dated since the studio was closed and then reanimated), that focuses on dialog trees and choice-matters narrative

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NOCLIP Pocket E53 - Medicinal Straw - Toem

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2021/12/11

A new podcast has been added to your HikeLady, Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about Toem, a photo-taking adventure game from developer Something We Made, and a game that is, well, frankly, sort of squarely in our wheelhouse. In Toem, you are tasked with going from place to place and fulfilling requests, which you do by using your camera and some limited environmental interaction to solve puzzles and obtain items. The camera is definitely the most noteworthy

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02:11:05

Episode 122 - Narrow Guillotine Alley - The Legend of...

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2021/12/05

Would you like to hear what I said again? Welcome back! I don’t know how much I really need to say about Ocarina of Time, it’s one of the few axioms of video games that you can just assume people know about and understand. This game accomplished a lot for the industry at the time, making a lasting impact on both games, in the form of how design changed after it came out, and players who would use it as a point of comparison for action adventure games for years to come. But we’re playing it now,

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00:41:22

NOCLIP Pocket E52 - Free the Jesus Trapped Inside -...

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2021/11/20

All hail Podcast John! Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! Today, we’re talking about The Procession to Calvary, a point and click adventure game with an art style composed entirely of renaissance era paintings. If that hasn’t already sold you on the idea, then I don’t really know what your deal is. Comparisons to Monty Python are pretty common in the discourse surrounding this game, and it’s pretty clear why that is, given the art style and the game’s emphasis on humor. To some extent, the game is

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01:43:36

Episode 121 - Psytation Needed - Psychonauts 2

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2021/11/13

Name for me this podcast so roughly bearing me o’er the sea! Welcome back to NOCLIP in the not so spooky month of November! Today, we’re going to be talking about Psychonauts 2, the long-awaited sequel from Double Fine. Psychonauts 2 is an action platformer game in much the same way as its predecessor, but with a more ambitious scope that comes from having so many years in between titles. As it picks up briskly from where Rhombus of Ruin ended (which, itself, picks up immediately after the

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00:40:39

NOCLIP Pocket E51 - One Noodle - Carrion

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2021/10/31

Podcast 60% breached. Happy Halloween! For our final game this October, we’re going to become the monster and take on Carrion, a Metroidvania where you play as a big tentacle monster. On its own, that is kind of a lackluster description for the game, but what makes the game successful at its goals is a bit difficult to describe in a short way. What the game really excels at is making the monster you play as feel just right, in a way that the premise doesn’t quite get across. You’ll stalk

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01:32:37

Episode 120 - Dude With Knife - Outlast

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2021/10/24

When people get scared, they’re as likely to turn to podcasts as anything else. Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re talking about Outlast, which is one of the classics of the modern horror game community. This is a first person horror adventure game that gives you no way of defending yourself against the things that are coming to kill you (a “haunted house game” in our parlance), but despite coming out when this type of game was decidedly in vogue, it sets itself apart in two big ways.

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00:54:01

NOCLIP Pocket E50 - An Edgelord Production - Sally Face

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2021/10/16

Once they started calling me that, I figured if I owned the podcast, they couldn’t use it against me. Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! It’s the middle of October which means we are right in the middle of horror season, and so today we’re talking about Sally Face. Sally Face is a horror adventure game made by a single person that mashes together so many elements of horror that you might find it surprising that the game actually manages to be surprisingly sentimental. While the game begins with a

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Episode 119 - Orange Flavored Apple - The Medium

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2021/10/09

Remember, you can’t save every podcast. Welcome to our first episode for this year’s Halloween! We’re going to be talking about The Medium, a horror adventure game with the hook that you are able to control your character in two different versions of the game world simultaneously; both the real world and the spirit world are accessible due to your status as a “medium.” What this translates to mechanically is that you move around the two versions of the world and need to solve various puzzles in

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00:20:11

Six Years of NOCLIP - Balloon Clown May

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2021/10/03

Unbelievably, we’ve now been doing this podcast for the length of a US Senator’s term, and that’s weird in at least several ways. We hope we’ve pleased our constituency during that time, though, especially since the other candidates in the upcoming race are likely much more popular than us and we do intend to try skating by on the high incumbency rates of elected officials. This metaphor kinda stopped working immediately. For today’s anniversary celebration though, we’re giving you another

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NOCLIP Pocket E49 - That Certain Elephant - Buddy...

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2021/10/03

What’s your favorite podcast? Welcome to Halloween! To kick off the spooky season, we’re talking about Buddy Simulator 1984, which is a kind of a weird melding between a number of different genres, most of which I won’t want to give away if you haven’t yet played the game. While Buddy Simulator definitely has the look and feel of a horror game, especially in its advertising, that mix of genres is equaled by a mix of tones and the game can be as funny as it is unsettling at times. To avoid giving

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Episode 118 - Felt Like a Big Man - Metal Gear Solid...

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2021/09/25

Raiden something happened to me last Thursday when I was driving home. I had a couple of miles to go - I looked up and saw a glowing orange podcast in the sky, to the east! It was moving very irregularly... suddenly there was intense light all around me - and when I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me? Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about Metal Gear Solid 2, the sequel to Metal Gear Solid and arguably the game that cemented Kojima as a designer with

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00:54:02

NOCLIP Pocket E48 - Murdering You Magazine - Limbo

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2021/09/18

Press A to Podcast (I don’t know, there’s no text in this game!) Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! Today, we’re going to be talking about Limbo, which is the first game from Danish developer Playdead, and their breakout hit as well. Something about the game’s simplicity, both in controls and art style really struck a chord with people when it released and it became surprisingly successful in the indie space back in 2010. A lot of the cinematic platformer type gameplay seen here would get refined in

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Episode 117 - Snow Ass Peaks - Super Mario 3D World...

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2021/09/11

Mario, this podcast is out of control! I tried to help it but it’s too big and mad. Welcome back to the podcast! It’s been a long time since we’ve talked about a Mario platformer (depending on if you could Mario Maker, it’s been two to three years), so with Nintendo celebrating the 35th anniversary last year and releasing the Switch port of 3D World, it seemed like a good time. So we waited a year and then did it. Our lack of timeliness aside, 3D Word was the Wii U’s entry into the world of 3D

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