Nine Sols (2024): Why Didn't You Parry It?

You have to admire and respect games that are willing to be themselves so strongly that they turn people off. Nine Sols is willing to give you just a little bit of a hand (amazing difficulty sliders), but if that can't get you over the hump - all of its worldbuilding and art and laser-tight combat just aren't for you. Nine Sols' purity of will is so strong, it can even parry you.  In this episode: Nerts! NES difficulty, eventually every piece of video game criticism will devolve into pointing at dark souls and grunting, backtracking, being fundamentally broken, just parry it, taopunk, apemen, fucked up projects, you do not, in fact, have to hand it to Goumang, feather gets oneshot by a cutscene because she was too busy being a simp, we fail to understand Tao, NERTS TIME, wait actually we weren't done talking about Nine Sols, NERTS TIME FOR REAL, we will never finish this podcast, MORE NERTS. ~shoutouts zone~ Religion for Breakfast: What Is Daoism? NERTS! Clarity of Mind, by DjBloom Mountain Dew Amp Game Fuel with RESEALABLE TECH for ACCURACY AND ALERTNESS Ghost (Swedish Band) Ghost (Swedish Fish) Alani Nu MUSHROOM SEASON Ford 021C ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can find him on Bandcamp! Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord! You can find us on Twitter, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/! We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆