17. You’ve Got More Horses for Your Power
Episode description
On this episode of Total Pebble Knockdown:
* Have you ever wanted to be a video game character in real life? Well a new place called Bam Kazam is building experiences that let you live out your digital dreams in the analog world. What world would we explore and which ones are we trying to avoid?
Bam Kazam in Scottsdale turns you into a video game character, literally
* So Dark Alliance is back... well, kind of. What does this new take on the series tell us about companies, their IPs and what you should do if you want to change it? Because change is not always a bad thing, but a lazy rebuild of an acclaimed series warrants criticism, which we will give in a Soapbox while exploring how the game plays and the characters it decided to use.
* You may skip over a tutorial or sigh upon realizing you are currently playing them. But tutorials can be invaluable to introduce mechanics to a new player when done right. What tutorials did we benefit from the most and which ones were notably bad?