155: West of Loathing (with guest host Gary Butterfield)

Gary Butterfield of Duckfeed.tv joins us to discuss West of Loathing, the hilarious stick-figure open-world RPG by Asymmetric. West of Loathing originally released last summer on Steam, but it recently launched as a console exclusive on Nintendo Switch. This is an extremely funny game, but it also respects your time in ways that other RPGs and open world games could learn a lot from. Thanks to Gary for a great discussion. West of Loathing is available on Steam for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and on the Nintendo Switch eShop, for $11. Expect it to take around 10 hours to complete. Spoiler break at [00:56:36]. What’s making us happy this week? Laura: Korean reality show The Genius Nate: The Saint Louis Pride Parade Raygan: Mario Tennis Aces Shane: Hive Gary: John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City Find Gary’s work at Duckfeed.tv. Gary’s newest podcast, Heartbeat City, is at Heartbeatcity.city. Past Short Game episodes with Gary: 26a: The Walking Dead 26b: The Walking Dead 47: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds You can follow our show on Twitter at @_shortgame Like the show? Support us by writing a review on iTunes! Your hosts this week were: Raygan Kelly – @raygank Shane Kelly – @8bitShane Nate Heininger – @natestl Laura Nash – @laurajnash Gary Butterfield – @garybuh (00:00) - West of Loathing (44:54) - What's making you happy this week? (56:36) - Spoiler Break