NOCLIP Pocket E94 - I Don't Mean the KY - Wet

We are not enemies, but we are a podcast. Welcome back to
Fanbruary! For our second game of the month (don’t look at the
calendar, please), we’re going to be talking about Wet, a third
person shooter that iterates on the mechanical innovations of games
like Prince of Persia and Max Payne, and takes its title both from
a shortened version of the term “wetwork” and also people who are
bad at naming things. Wet is honestly a fascinating game just in
the sheer difference between its relative obscurity compared to
other games from the era and the amount of effort that was clearly
put into it. The mechanics are fleshed out, if not always polished,
the visuals hold up pretty well for its period, the soundtrack
features over a dozen guest artists and that’s not to mention the
insane voice cast (and I mean that literally, we entirely forget to
mention it in the episode). And yet, if you’re like anyone I’ve
talked to about the game, you’ve probably never heard of it. While
we may not know exactly what caused this game to fall into
obscurity, we can look at it now and see what it brings to the
table. We’re going to be talking about the game’s exploitation film
theming and aesthetic, how the mechanics come so close to realizing
their potential, and the impossibility of asking your parents for a
game called Wet. Thank you for listening to NOCLIP Pocket! We are
slowly getting our wheels spinning again after taking most of
January off, but Fanbruary is underway with five whole days left in
the month! We like to do games we would most likely not do outside
of the fan-suggested month, and while Wet fell more into the “we
would have never thought about it” category more than the “we would
never play that” one, we still wanted to give it a chance because
of cool it looked. Was Wet a game you had played, or even heard
about? Let us know down in the comments or over on Discord! We’ll
be back next time to talk about Mario Hoops 3-on-3, so we hope
you’ll join us then.