S4E24 - Cadence of Hyrule and Rhythm Games - “Two participation points”

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We discuss Cadence of Hyrule and our feelings about rhythm games
in general! One of us loves them and one of us apparently has no
rhythm. Can you guess which one is which? Go ahead. Guess! Tweet
us @geektogeekcast before you listen with your guess! 50
points* if you get it right. 


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meet up in person


Between DDR, Just Dance, Amplitude, Guitar Hero, Rock Band and so
many more, we've played our share. We talk about how it's
possible to internalize the beat in the games to the point where
you don't even think about what you're doing when following them.
Cadence of Hyrule

Specifically, though, we wanted to talk about the new Crypt of
the Necrodancer game, Cadence of Hyrule. Amazingly, this has made
Void's top Zelda games ever list, and he places it somewhere
around 2 or 3. 


Yes, it's that good.


Even Beej loves this one, and he bounced off Necrodancer hard.
The ability to move not to the beat makes this almost a
turn-based strategy Legend of Zelda title, and that's amazing.


The boss fights are fun, the puzzle areas are superb, and the
procedural generation of dungeons (as well as the layout of the
overworld) make this a fairly short Zelda, but one that you
actually want to keep playing.


It ditches a lot of the more unforgiving aspects of its
predecessor's Roguelike heritage and makes it so that if you die,
you're not punished as harshly. It's easy to start right back in
and hopping to the beat, digging through some dirt, and smashing
Moblins with glass flails.


This game is definitely worth the $25 bucks on the Switch eShop.
Weekly Geekery

BJ’s Geekery this week includes winning a scholarship to Podcast
Movement in Orlando this year. He can't wait to meet all the
fantastic people at the conference and learn a lot more about the
podcasting industry. He played D&D IRL with a group of people
he didn't know and learned that local Discord servers help a lot,
he and Void both checked out Warrior’s of Waterdeep, and got his
first job in the FFV Four Job Fiesta (thief).


Void watched the HBO Chernobyl Miniseries and Gourmet makes from
America’s Test Kitchen. He learned that re-making Twinkies is
harder than you expect, and that their mere existence brings up
existential questions about snack cakes that you weren't aware
that you had. He also played Outer Wilds which is a physics-based
exploration game that gave him a bit of vertigo. He then went to
an actual in-person Magic The Gathering sealed
event even though it was accidentally for the wrong set!
He still had fun, played 9 games, won some, lost some, and
realized that Modern Horizons is just not his set.
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