Episode 70 - Punched Her In Half - Harvester

Remember to take the podcast out for Jimmy. You know how he gets.
Welcome to our first proper episode of the Halloween season! Today,
we’re going to be taking a look at Harvester, a ‘90s point and
click adventure game that touts itself as the most vile and
shocking you’ll ever play. While this may not be entirely true,
Harvester does not pull its punches when it comes to being weird
and transgressive, and confronts its players with scene after scene
of nonsensical characters and irreverent dialogue. This proves to
be the game’s charm, though, and once it stops feeling like Twin
Peaks on a hallucinogen bender, it’s actually pretty funny, whether
it intends to be or not. We talk about surprisingly tame adventure
game puzzles, the way the game handles tone, and whether or not
something is just too pink to be a real ass. Thank you for spending
some quality time with us this week and keep an eye out later this
month for our second, decidedly less bizarre, horror episode on
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem!