PP Podcast #084 — [ ElecHead | PICO-8 | Aurascope | Unruly Heroes + Rayman | SPROUT | High Stakes ]
0Welcome back to Pursuing Pixels. We're less than full-strength for the first time in a little while, missing DJ this week, but we've still got plenty of games to talk about this week!
Randall gets us started with his first impressions of the Xbox Series X and appears to be incredibly happy with his purchase so far! Between Xbox Game Pass and the platform-wide backwards compatibility, he's already got a slew of games to re-experience before splurging on the console's true next-gen offerings!
Speaking of Game Pass, Kevin & Randall have also been checking out Unruly Heroes from Magic Design Studios, consisting of many former Rayman Origins/Rayman Legends devs. We're almost entirely at odds during this conversations—do you agree with either one of us?
From there, Kevin highlights a couple of indie demos that we streamed over on our Twitch channel recently, Aurascope & Elechead. Whether you like your platformers precision-y or puzzle-y, we have a feeling you'll be adding one, if not both, of these to your wishlist!
After Kevin hyped up the PICO-8 fantasy console last week, John shares his thoughts on a variety of games, including a couple that we talked about last week (and in our Discord), while highlighting a few more gems, as well.
Finally, Kevin wraps things up with -SPROUT-, which we streamed a full playthrough of after the game's developer, Zedsquadron, sent us over a copy of his awesome lil' precision platformer!
Timestamps:
Xbox Series X - 00:01:03
Unruly Heroes & Rayman Legends - 00:08:46
Aurascope - 00:20:58
ElecHead - 00:24:31
PICO-8 - 00:26:01
↳ High Stakes - 00:26:33
↳ Breakolf - 00:27:58
↳ Molecules - 00:31:13
↳ Wandering Magic - 00:35:53
-SPROUT- - 00:44:36
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