723. 1Upsmanship: Cocoon (Feat. Tom Marks)
Added 2024-05-17 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
Tom Marks, Executive Reviews Editor at IGN and friendly bean, joins Michael and Adam to discuss 2023’s 3D puzzler: Cocoon. The player controls a beetle that can hop between worlds, solving puzzles to unravel the universe's mysteries.
Tom Marks: https://twitter.com/tomrmarks
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Adam Ganser: https://twitter.com/therealganz
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Comments
Chaos Abe is always welcome in this house.
Billy Whitman
2024-05-24 22:30:39 +0000 UTCthe thing with the cicadas is that many of those animals just have less children, chickens actually evolved similarly (also in china!). They evolved to feast on the pretty much equally rare bamboo flowering, and have a bunch of eggs when that happens. Humans saw this and were like “what if we feed them all the time” and the chickens then just laid eggs eggs all the time, and we were like “mm tasty,” and the rest is huevo history
E l i j a h
2024-05-21 20:58:10 +0000 UTCWhile we’re on the topic of puzzle games, I’m curious; has anyone played a game called fire n’ ice? It’s an old NES game that had a wizard who used his wand to either create or remove blocks of ice and move those blocks around a 2d grid to put out fires so he could cross to the other side of a puzzle. If you haven’t played it, give it a look see. It holds up.
Colin Harrington
2024-05-18 02:47:17 +0000 UTCI would love to see you guys play Starship Titanic, the Douglas Adams "Hitchhikers Guide" game.
Adam by the Birch
2024-05-18 00:10:42 +0000 UTCMan what a service you guys provide! Entertainment aspect aside, amazing as it is. I miss so many games on my radar and this show helps me play catch up, literally I suppose. Thank you noble friends!
drunkencoyote
2024-05-17 23:53:59 +0000 UTCI don’t think looking up solutions when we can’t figure them out is no longer experiencing the game. Are you telling me that I’m experiencing a game 99% of the time but 1% of outside context invalidates that? Games are not played in a vacuum. I don’t think we were cheating ourselves out of experience when our friend told us how to beat a puzzle in Link to the Past or Sonic CD or whatever. Games like all art are meant to be experienced in ways you find *enjoyable*, and some people like to be guided through a museum. Just because someone tells me the hidden symbolism in a painting doesn’t make the symbolism or the experience less meaningful.
James Crosslin
2024-05-17 19:39:45 +0000 UTClol Abe rules, great edit
James Crosslin
2024-05-17 19:06:13 +0000 UTCBy chance I just watched a video on one of my favorite Youtube channels, The Science Asylum, that explains where each of the different elements come from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInXZ6I3u_I This will answer your question Mr Swaim!
Rodney Smith
2024-05-17 18:56:41 +0000 UTC“Contemplate my bachelorhood” sounds like code for masturbation, just saying
Alexander Ault
2024-05-17 16:32:53 +0000 UTCI didn't have to look anything up and it took me maybe about 4 hours to beat, but I agree that this game is kind of shallow, especially in comparison to something like Inside. I loved the simplicity of it and that I didn't need any instructions in order to enjoy it, but there definitely isn't much to extrapolate from here, and I was pretty disappointed that I never was able to figure out what the stakes were.
Ryan (Kanserus Bone Saw) Bowdish
2024-05-17 15:07:43 +0000 UTCYes, BUT ARE YOU A PHYSICIST? I rest my case.
Ryan (Kanserus Bone Saw) Bowdish
2024-05-17 15:05:32 +0000 UTCThe answer to the physics question, i think - is that theres still hydrogen in the star when its doing fusion - the fusion mostly happens in the center of the star - fusing one thing into 2 is easier than fusing 2 things into 2
Kai Hardy
2024-05-17 13:55:59 +0000 UTC
