Episode 97 - Sad Poor People - Pyre

Whosoever would oppose our podcast is welcome to try. Welcome back to the podcast! We’re going to be talking about Supergiant’s Pyre, a fantasy sports RPG, which feels like the description of a very boring game where orcs sit around making roster adjustments on their phones, but I swear to you that isn’t this. Instead, this game follows a growing band of exiles as they participate in “The Rites,” a ritual that makes up the “action” part of this game. The Rites themselves are interesting and can be strategically quite deep, but they are broken up by character-centric segments that help your attachments grow and provide stat boosts and items to aid you as you progress through the game. These two elements create the back and forth loop of Pyre and your enjoyment of these two things will largely determine how much you will like the game overall. We’re going to be talking about developing character stories and how they force you to make hard choices, the depth of the systems we couldn’t hope to fully explore, and we compare a character in this game to the star of a classic nineties adventure game. Which one it is WILL SHOCK YOU. Thank you for listening this week! We had a grand time playing through this game, despite both having some reservations going in, so I hope your experience was at least as enlightening. Next time, we’re taking on a Superman-worthy endeavor and grinding through as many classic Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games as we can (specifically THPS 1, 2, 3, 4, THUG, THUG2, and THAW if those acronyms mean anything to you) to provide a series retrospective, pitting one host’s extremely long running experience with the franchise against a relative newcomer, so we hope you’ll join us for that.