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

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 the source of a lot of
conversation. Maybe the truest “mystery” game we’ve played for our
mystery-themed month, the game tasks you with figuring out the
names and causes of death of everyone who was present aboard the
Obra Dinn, using a stopwatch that lets you view the moment of death
of any corpse you happen across. It doesn’t take too long for the
player to become accustomed to this, all things considered, pretty
radical mechanic set and this game boasts some of the most
rewarding puzzle solving of any we’ve played. We’re going to talk
about visual style and aesthetic substance, logical deduction and
leaps of faith, and what we’ve all learned by reading the Job
Dictionary. I hope you enjoyed our selections for this month of
interactive head-scratchers. As is (somehow) a tradition, we are
marching steadfastly from Mystery May into Wah-June where we will
be talking about 2018’s God of War. We hope you’ll join us then.
…and we hope you’ll join us NOW, over on our Discord server to
discuss the game, offer suggestions and debate what qualities make
a Dark Souls game the best first Dark Souls game.
https://discord.gg/tRNNSJ6