Episode 97 - Sad Poor People - Pyre

Whosoever would oppose our podcast is welcome to try. Welcome back
to the podcast! We’re going to be talking about Supergiant’s Pyre,
a fantasy sports RPG, which feels like the description of a very
boring game where orcs sit around making roster adjustments on
their phones, but I swear to you that isn’t this. Instead, this
game follows a growing band of exiles as they participate in “The
Rites,” a ritual that makes up the “action” part of this game. The
Rites themselves are interesting and can be strategically quite
deep, but they are broken up by character-centric segments that
help your attachments grow and provide stat boosts and items to aid
you as you progress through the game. These two elements create the
back and forth loop of Pyre and your enjoyment of these two things
will largely determine how much you will like the game overall.
We’re going to be talking about developing character stories and
how they force you to make hard choices, the depth of the systems
we couldn’t hope to fully explore, and we compare a character in
this game to the star of a classic nineties adventure game. Which
one it is WILL SHOCK YOU. Thank you for listening this week! We had
a grand time playing through this game, despite both having some
reservations going in, so I hope your experience was at least as
enlightening. Next time, we’re taking on a Superman-worthy endeavor
and grinding through as many classic Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games
as we can (specifically THPS 1, 2, 3, 4, THUG, THUG2, and THAW if
those acronyms mean anything to you) to provide a series
retrospective, pitting one host’s extremely long running experience
with the franchise against a relative newcomer, so we hope you’ll
join us for that.