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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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00:33:31

NOCLIP Pocket E37 - Tell Your Grandmas - A Short Hike

Describing The Skybox ·

2021/02/21

A fish ate my podcasting license… Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! Today, we’re going to be talking about A Short Hike, an indie adventure game and the third game in our deeply important series of bird based games on Pocket. A Short Hike is a very minimalist game, both in style and length, but there is still a good bit to do and explore, even if the game’s world isn’t so big. Part platformer, part adventure game, you spend much of your time in the game collecting items to reach new heights and

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01:41:29

Episode 106 - Rocketing Toward the Grave - Hades

Describing The Skybox ·

2021/02/14

Your podcast provides you with a certain mindless strength, but such power has its limits. Welcome back to the podcast! This week, we’re, along with everyone else over the last few months, talking about Hades, Supergiant’s action Roguelite game. One of Hades’ most successful design decisions was to make the game extremely hard to become frustrated with. With an extensive list of unlockable abilities and upgradeable weapons as well as in depth character relationship paths, every time you die in

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01:01:52

NOCLIP Pocket E36 - Above My Play Grade - Downwell

Describing The Skybox ·

2021/02/06

This podcast was recorded in “Arm Swing” style. Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket, where this week, we’re going to be talking about Downwell, a Rougelike platformer where your goal is just to fall all the way down to the bottom. Obviously this is more difficult to do than it sounds, but even with as difficult as this game is, it’s that simplicity that makes it stand out. You only ever need to move left and right and press a single button, making the game incredible easy to learn and putting you

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02:23:18

Episode 105 - Final Fantasy X - Arms Are Sweaty

Describing The Skybox ·

2021/01/30

I know it’s selfish, but this is my podcast! Welcome back! Twenty years after the game’s release and five years of doing this podcast, we are finally going to talk about our first Final Fantasy game. Ten specifically is a game that we have a history with and which has been specifically requested, so we carved out the time to talk about it. FFX is the first Final Fantasy game to be released on the PS2, and made use of the new hardware to create a game that was of an extremely high fidelity for

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00:40:29

NOCLIP Pocket E35 - Regular Dude Names - Penko Park

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2021/01/16

Underneath your seat, you will find your complimentary Podcast Snap-A-Lot 9000. Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket. Today, we’re going to be talking about Penko Park, a game that uses unique assets, but is solidly in the very small genre shared by Pokémon Snap. The game’s controls and objectives are largely the same, as you drive around in a self propelled cart and take pictures of the creatures that inhabit the titular park. It’s very interesting to play a game that feels like an intentional

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01:23:58

The NOCLIP Awards 2020 - We Grasped the Orb

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2021/01/10

The annual awards show everyone isn’t talking about. Welcome to the NOCLIP Awards 2020, where we decide the best games we played this year in different categories. Our newly moderated debate format will help show the minute distinctions between which games really were the most perfect for the Switch, or what child in games this year most deserves the coveted Burger King birthday crown. And of course, we’ll be celebrating those most tentpole gaming achievements like Game of the Year, unique

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01:48:10

Episode 104 - The Zazu Pieces - No More Heroes

Describing The Skybox ·

2021/01/02

Coconuts are more valuable than podcast lives! Welcome back! Today on the podcast we’re going to be talking about No More Heroes, a hack’n’slash action game, and likely the game that made Suda51 a name people recognized. A definitely very quirky game with a, uh, we’ll say virile sense of humor, No More Heroes is a game that seems like it tries to make as many choices as it can to stand out and be different from most games released at the time. And I think this wild differentiation is what made

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00:57:11

NOCLIP Pocket E34 - Aren't You Tantalized? -...

Describing The Skybox ·

2020/12/21

We Scythians loathe podcasts, Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, an adventure game originally released on mobile platforms. You’re given a sword and a shield and a quest to go do, but the game takes a very irreverent stance toward all of it, meaning the tone is a lot lighter and more jokey than you would expect from a game of this type. Mechanically, the game is mostly about puzzle solving, with the combat sitting somewhere

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02:02:35

Episode 103 - Seal Team Six - Heaven's Vault

Describing The Skybox ·

2020/12/14

Podcasts don’t always have a tidy beginning. Welcome back to the podcast! This week we’re joined by Janelle and are going to be talking about Heaven’s Vault, an adventure game with a focus on linguistics that was developed by Inkle. As you can imagine based on that description, this game has a very different way of engaging you mechanically than other games, even within the adventure genre. While the game is designed to deliver on its narrative, the story of an archaeologist exploring ancient

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00:03:28

Episode 0 - Introduction

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2020/12/06

Welcome to NOCLIP! Do you ever wonder “what is NOCLIP?” Well this episode probably won’t help that much, but hopefully it can provide some helpful examples of the kind of rhetoric you can expect from us in episodes of the show in convenient skit form. And remember, like we always say, or have always said after not saying it for one hundred episodes, NOCLIP is the podcast that’s like a book club for people who don’t think books reward them enough for being good at them. Thanks for listening!

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01:00:12

NOCLIP Pocket E33 - The Accident Boat - Firewatch

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2020/11/21

There might be two naked podcasters out here. Thank you for joining us again this week! We’re going to be talking about Firewatch, the first and currently only game from Campo Santo. Firewatch is a walking simulator mystery game set in a open world forest, but that really doesn’t get to the meat of why you should play this game. While the game world is beautifully designed, and it’s fun to explore the forest, the key to the game’s success is in building a relationship between yourself and the

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01:49:07

Episode 102 - Wagooigi - Luigi's Mansion 3

Describing The Skybox ·

2020/11/14

Oh yeah. Let’s a go. Welcome back to the podcast! This has been a pretty rough time for the world in general, and to make things worse, now we’re uploading Halloween episodes in mid-November. Today we’re talking about Luigi’s Mansion 3, the Switch’s entry to the franchise that kind of launched the Gamecube. This series is Nintendo’s take on horror, and it has a number of the traits associated with horror adventure games spanning the almost thirty years. The game is focused on exploration and

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00:48:06

NOCLIP Pocket E32 - Non-Non-Euclidean - Fatum Betula

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2020/10/31

At least Halloween should be fun. Happy Halloween! Today we’re going to be talking about Fatum Betula, a game that was inspired by Japanese games of the PS1 era, but will probably be most often compared to LSD Dream Emulator. This comparison is not unjust, but truthfully, while there is less going on in this game, it has a much clearer sense of play to it that revolves around puzzle solving and exploration. Overall, this is a wise choice, as the experience of playing this feels very genuine, as

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01:37:06

Episode 101 - The Chair Scare - Amnesia: The Dark...

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2020/10/24

Some podcasts mustn’t be forgotten. It’s Halloween season! Every year we put out our bowl of candy for all our podcast listeners, so thank you for joining us again this year and I’m glad to see so many of you are wearing costumes! For our first Halloween episode here on the main podcast, we’re going to be talking about Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the game that effectively resurrected horror games in terms of public perception. And the expected mechanics of the genre, honestly. Amnesia came out

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00:48:20

NOCLIP Pocket E31 - Don't Stab Brad - Man of Medan

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2020/10/21

Those guys are out panning for Manchurian gold, or whatever they think they’re going to find on this podcast. Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket, and welcome, formally to the start of our Halloween season! We have a hopefully pretty satisfying variety of horror games to talk about this month, but first and foremost we’re going to be looking at one that takes a lot of its inspiration from horror movies, Man of Medan. Developed by Supermassive, Man of Medan is the first part of their ongoing “Dark

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02:34:53

Episode 100 - Dunking on the Elderly - The Jackbox...

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2020/10/18

Six players? I’ll try to podcast slowly because statistically at least one of you is hard of hearing. Welcome to the 100th episode of NOCLIP! We decided to pull all of our recent guests (and former hosts) together to talk about a game we all routinely play. The Jackbox Party Pack emulates classic board game night games with a slant toward drawing, wordplay and social games in a way that’s easy to set up and get into. The real triumph with this series, though, is that most games allow the

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00:37:03

NOCLIP Pocket E30 - Recessive Lizard Brain - Minit

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2020/10/10

Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! We’re cleaning up everything we needed to do before episode 100, and that means it’s time to play Minit, which was initially supposed to be a fun thematic companion piece to go along with A Hat in Time, but ended up stumbling into October a bit. Either way, this is an adventure game that you play in one minute chunks. You spawn in a fixed location, do as much as you can do in sixty seconds and then die, respawning in the same place unless you found another place to

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00:20:13

Five Years of NOCLIP - The Huns Hate Podcasts

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2020/10/03

It’s internationally observed and very important holiday NOCLIP Day, meaning it’s time to comb through our old episodes, find the stuff that we didn’t think you would want to listen to then, and have you listen to it now instead! Our festivities this year are twofold, as we are celebrating not only five years of doing this podcast but also hitting 100 episodes. The numbers are lining up, the planets are in alignment, and, just as predicted in the prophecy, we’re probably going to turn into a

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01:39:50

Episode 99 - Love That Neck - A Hat in Time

Describing The Skybox ·

2020/09/26

There’s only so many times my voice can handle podcasting like that. You’re taking the experience away from other people. Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about A Hat in Time, a 3D platformer developed by Gears for Breakfast that was largely crowd funded and even published by Humble Bundle. 3D platformers are a novelty in recent years and this type of funding really speaks to how the community that wants them is underserved, and what we got was a game that really wears

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00:35:22

NOCLIP Pocket E29 - Pooping in the King's Pottery -...

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2020/09/19

We have always been much better at starting podcasts than finishing them. Welcome to the podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about The Unfinished Swan, an adventure game from Giant Sparrow, the team behind What Remains of Edith Finch. This is an adventure game that has a very concrete idea and it goes about expanding on that idea in an extremely fluid way. Pun intended. The game revolves around throwing balls of liquid, which change properties throughout the game, to accomplish a variety

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