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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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01:37:51

The NOCLIP Awards 2019 - Deep Dulcet Feebas

Describing The Skybox ·

2020/01/18

In the streets, where true might is chosen. The podcast games of have been gathered, the categories curated and our three podcasting pedants re-assembled, it’s time to hand out the 2019 NOCLIP Awards! As is tradition every year, for one year, we have organized a list of highly relevant categories, such as “Least Likely to be Compared to Dark Souls” and “Worst Map”, and will be deciding the best of the best or the…smashiest of the smashy…games we’ve played this year, not in clickbait YouTuber top

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00:38:21

NOCLIP Pocket E19 - A Real Thing In Reality - Little...

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2019/12/25

Thank you for purchasing the Little NOCLIP Entertainment Podcast! Welcome back to NOCLIP for our final episode this year! We’re talking about Little Inferno, a game by The Tomorrow Corporation that doesn’t quite play like any other. This is a game about burning things, from just some bricks to military grade explosives and everything else in between, but also it’s a game about telling you jokes and about figuring out what’s really important in life. Little Inferno is even a great game to play

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01:59:17

Episode 88 - Jimmy Won't Return - Death Stranding

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2019/12/21

We’re NOCLIP. But we’re not that NOCLIP. Welcome to the UCA, listeners, because today we’re talking about Death Stranding. This game has been stirring up a bit of controversy among the AAA game discussion crowd, coming from Metal Gear visionary Hideo Kojima and yet being mostly a game about how walking around with a bunch of stuff on your back is hard to do. While you’ll have to listen to the episode to get all the nuances of why we feel the way we do on the game’s many aspects, I think we’ve

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01:28:40

Episode 87 - The Linda Interstitial - Psychonauts

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2019/11/30

Overly…intricate…podcast! Welcome back to NOCLIP! Today we’re going to be talking about Double Fine’s platformer classic Psychonauts, which really set the standard for games coming from the company for years to come. Psychonauts is pretty unique as far as platformers go, with an emphasis on strong character writing and level designs that are based on those character’s personalities. Really, the writing in the game is what stands out the most, and they take the concept of a psychic summer camp and

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00:40:05

NOCLIP Pocket E18 - Checked-Off's Gun - Untitled...

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2019/11/20

Knock the podcast on its bottom. Welcome back to Pocket! Today, we’re going to be talking about contemporary internet darling Untitled Goose Game, which is a puzzle game where, unsurprisingly, you play as a goose. As a goose is want to do, you spend the majority of your time attempting to accomplish goals that, in the grand scheme of things, mostly just annoy people into fits of rage. The systems behind this are predominately physics and interaction based, using the game’s fairly limited mechanic

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00:46:19

NOCLIP Pocket E17 - Reached JNCO Status - Tamashii

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2019/10/31

You are the spark emanated by my light. The podcast of my will in the hidden spheres. Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket on this very special Halloween night (well, if you’re catching it like right as we upload it’s very early in the morning, but like, shut up, I’m trying to be thematic). Hopefully you’re having a spooky holiday season, and in an attempt to help you further along that path, we’re talking about Tamashii. This is a puzzle platformer that pulls its visual and narrative inspiration from

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01:23:59

Episode 86 - He Gets Greasier - Silent Hill 2

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2019/10/26

I guess I really don’t care if it’s dangerous or not. I’m going to podcast either way. Welcome to our spooky Halloween episode this year, where we’re talking about Silent Hill 2, among the most classic of classic survival horror games. Being a pillar of the genre, Silent Hill accomplishes a lot of what you would expect, providing a unique memorable atmosphere and characters that have persisted as icons of the series. But that’s what you’ve heard about Silent Hill 2. The experience of actually

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00:37:00

NOCLIP Pocket E16 - Ghost Bucks - Detention

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2019/10/09

Let us meet again, in another podcast. Welcome to October! It’s time to play some horror games, and boy are we starting off with a bleak one. Detention is set in Taiwan during a period of marshal law, and despite its supernatural elements, really wants its lasting horror to be about the oppressiveness of life during this time. The game itself is a point-and-click adventure game, with puzzles to solve and diary entries to collect and uncover more of the story, and taken together, all its elements

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00:36:45

Four Years of NOCLIP - Tomed Out of His Mind

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2019/10/03

NOCLIP Day Tidings, everyone! It’s the season of giving here on the podcast, but as usual, all we have to give is utter garbage. Specifically, the garbage we edit out of each episode and save in a special folder to break out for just such an occasion. This year we took steps toward improving our quality, making better jokes, and expanding our horizons to talk about a wide variety of still no real time strategy games. More seriously, though, we want to thank all of you for listening. We appreciate

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01:27:20

Episode 85 - Evidence That Spins - Phoenix Wright:...

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2019/09/30

When something stinks, it’s probably the NOCLIP Podcast. Thank you for joining us again today! We realize this one’s a bit late, but we needed to get it out before October starts and all non-scary content is expunged from the Internet. Today, however, we’re going to be talking about Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the first in what has become a series of games where you play the part of the titular Wright, and attempt to make the task of being a defense attorney fun to do. Fortunately, the game does

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00:43:03

NOCLIP Pocket E15 - Firmly Grasped It - Device 6

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2019/09/14

I don’t know any people who listen to podcasts, nor do I care to. Welcome back! On today’s episode of Pocket, we’re returning to phone games, and, in fact, returning to a mobile developer we’ve talked about before. Device 6 is a game by Simogo, who also developed Year Walk, which we discussed last Halloween, and between the two games prove that they get that using phone hardware in a unique way is key. This game, however, focuses on text almost exclusively. The game’s text tells the story and

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01:30:43

Episode 84 - The Bible is Dope - Castlevania:...

Describing The Skybox ·

2019/09/01

Your words are as empty as your soul! Mankind ill needs a podcast such as you! Welcome back to the show this week. Join us in bidding a fond, but temporary, farewell to JJ, who will be taking some time off in the coming months, by playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Also, sorry for spoiling the first five minutes of the podcast. Castlevania is a groundbreaking game that helped to establish a particular genre of platform/action game and is regarded by many to be one of the most

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01:10:13

Episode 83 - He Is Now A Preteen - Super Mario Maker 2

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2019/08/10

We’re here to rebuild Princess Peach’s Podcast. Welcome back to the show this week! Maybe this content isn’t so original at the moment, but we’re going to be covering Super Mario Maker 2. A game focused on user-generated content is particularly difficult to cover holistically, so we’re going to be looking at the elements of the game that are not focused on specifically playing people’s levels. Presentation, the robustness of the editor and how building and playing levels makes you feel are our

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00:43:09

NOCLIP Pocket E14 - Type "Sweet Love" - Only If

Describing The Skybox ·

2019/08/07

I’m listening to the podcast. The one with the anime painting. Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! Today we’re talking about Only If, which is a free PC Adventure game that dedicates itself to doing things that are strange and interesting. While the inexperience of the team holds the game back from completely accomplishing its goals, what this game does provide is a great snapshot of the things indie game developers were trying to accomplish at the time in a very accessible package. There are some

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01:03:31

Episode 82 - Front Gatekeepers - Baba Is You

Describing The Skybox ·

2019/07/21

Podcast Is You And Podcast Has Bad Jokes Welcome back! I hope you’ve been enjoying the scorching summer months as we pack into a single air-conditioning-less room to record a new episode on Baba Is You. This is an indie puzzle game with an incredibly unique concept, namely, being able to push around words that define the rules of the puzzle. The primary mechanic set of each level is then to manipulate these rules to provide a clear passage for whatever object you happen to be inhabiting at the time

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00:39:58

NOCLIP Pocket E13 - #Only90%ofKids - Pokémon Trading...

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2019/07/06

Dueling is more fun than just listening to podcasts! Welcome back to NOCLIP Pocket! This episode, we’re going to revisit a childhood favorite of, I think, every single kid who grew up in Pokémon’s heyday. Even more than an adaptation of the card game everyone was playing and collecting at the time, the game seemed almost like a full-fledged Pokémon game, with a similar conceit and art style. While that seemed good at the time, almost too good to be true, in fact, reflecting on the game in the

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01:38:23

Episode 81 - The Birth Pillar - God of War

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2019/06/24

There is one unavoidable truth you will never escape: you cannot change. You will always be... a podcast. Welcome back to the show, where today we’re going to take a look at the return of the God of War franchise with the, uh, aptly titled “God of War.” We meet Kratos this time around on a much more somber mission than in previous games, with him setting out with his son to scatter his wife’s ashes on the highest peak in the realms. This is of course swiftly interrupted and the journey continues

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01:57:35

Episode 80 - Only Idiots Drown - Return of the Obra Dinn

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2019/05/31

Those ungodly hosts carry a curse! Throw the podcast back or doom us all! Thank you, once again, for joining us today on the NOCLIP Podcast! Today, we’re going to be wrapping up Mystery May in a (hopefully) satisfying manner by talking about Return of the Obra Dinn with help from our guest Dan, who you may remember, and at this point you probably do remember, from past episodes. Obra Dinn was developed by Lucas Pope and like his previous game, Papers Please, has a unique style that has made it

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NOCLIP Pocket E12 - Capricious Genie - Simulacra

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2019/05/22

I AM SOCIETY RESHAPED. A PODCAST DESTINED FOR ASCENSION. A HYPERREAL EXISTENCE. Welcome back! I hope everyone is having a properly mystifying Mystery May so far. For our pocket episode this month we’re going to be tackling a phone game that takes its platform quite seriously. Simulacra is a mystery/horror adventure game where you take on the role of a faceless bystander trying to solve a disappearance with access only to the victim’s phone. An iteration on a similar, if not identical, concept

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01:17:58

Episode 79 - This Burmy Can Hold Grudges - Detective...

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2019/05/11

How could your podcast take place entirely in the library? Here’s a hint, it can’t! Thanks for joining us on the podcast again this week. We’re kicking off Mystery May with Detective Pikachu. With the movie releasing recently this IP has been in the public eye, but the film’s inspiration is comparatively less known. Now that we’ve played it, we’re here to…well, tell you why that is, unfortunately. The game follows a tried and true structure of setting up environments full of clues and witnesses

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