NOCLIP Pocket E85 - Playing Broomstickers - Chop Goblins

Oh no! They podcasted the building down! Welcome back to the
podcast! Today, we’re going to be talking about Chop Goblins, a
surprising-in-many-ways FPS by David Szymanski. Chop Goblins is
short, with only five levels and five weapons, and can be beaten
for the first time in two hours or less, but because of this it
never overstays its welcome and keeps introducing new things over
the course of the game, including new enemy types. The titular Chop
Goblins are not a design that is easy to take seriously, along with
most of the rest of the game, but you can see in them that there
actually was a lot of care put into making the game feel right.
Different kinds of enemies require different strategies to
effectively defeat without taking damage, and managing groups of
them is core to playing the game well. The game is a “boomer
shooter” by definition, but it has a strong core that comes from
experience and the love of the genre. I’m not sure how else you’d
want me to synopsize Chop Goblins, it’s just a simple, fun game
with a better core than you might expect. We’re going to be talking
about how the levels and music are used to emphasize the game’s
innate silliness and comedy, the feel of all the weapons and what
makes them each interesting choices, and we draw a a comparison to
one of our favorite games of all time, Rascal. Thank you for
joining us this week! We did this game partly to get through
something short because we have a lot of more time-consuming games
coming up this month, but also because I played it on release and
it has really stuck with me for some reason. Seeing a game this
competent with this ridiculous of a premise just really warms my
heart. Did you play Chop Goblins? …why not? Let us know down in the
comments or over on our Discord! Next time, we’re returning to the
ole Epilogue well and doing an episode about Kingdom Hearts, sort
of in preparation for our next big episode on Kingdom Hearts 2, so
we hope you’ll keep an eye out for that!