Gary Butterfield

WOFF 468 Preview: Skald: Against the Black Priory

Episode  |  February 20th, 2025  |  41 mins

Skald - n. a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds. While you can't recruit a Skald in your party, oddly, you can hone and craft a party of heroes in this updated retro-style Blobber. It wants to introduce you to a genre that's generally unfriendly to newcomers.

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Episode  |  February 19th, 2025  |  4 mins 4 secs

467: Tenchu Stealth Assassins

Episode  |  February 13th, 2025  |  1 hr 22 mins

Stealth games! We've been trying to figure out how to make games anti-action for a long time, and before we ever got to Sekiro, we had a little game called Tenchu Stealth Assassins. My, how the genre has evolved.

466: Bandersnatch

Episode  |  February 6th, 2025  |  1 hr 37 mins

How can a movie also be a game? The sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror tries to answer that with the experimental Bandersnatch, which weirdly feels archaic in many ways even as it tries to break storytelling boundaries. There is some neat stuff in here, but does it add up to anything more than cheap twists?

WOFF Dispatch Roundup Q1 2025

Episode  |  January 30th, 2025  |  1 hr 3 mins

You had so many questions. So, so many. Here are some of the answers we found in the back.

WOFF Dispatch: The Evolution of Boss Fights

Episode  |  January 30th, 2025  |  1 hr 46 mins

Boss Fights! Who needs them? Not us. But the video game industrial complex sure seems addicted to them.

WOFF 465 Preview: Super Mario 64

Episode  |  January 23rd, 2025  |  51 mins

Genre defining, boundary pushing, console selling; Super Mario 64 had it all. One of the defining games of the Nintendo 64 and of the early 3D era left a huge legacy behind, but we can only really talk about it in full if we go back to where it all began. There's a letter, a girl, and a promise of cake. This is definitely not a trap.

465: Super Mario 64

Episode  |  January 23rd, 2025  |  2 hrs 6 mins

Genre defining, boundary pushing, console selling; Super Mario 64 had it all. One of the defining games of the Nintendo 64 and of the early 3D era left a huge legacy behind, but we can only really talk about it in full if we go back to where it all began. There's a letter, a girl, and a promise of cake. This is definitely not a trap.

464: Tactical Breach Wizards

Episode  |  January 16th, 2025  |  2 hrs 15 mins

Do Wizards make good cops? Well, "good" cops. How about, would Wizards be efficient cops? That's the question XCOM-inspired Tactical Breach Wizards aims to answer. They can arrest people with magic! Too bad the criminals have magic too.

463: Superliminal

Episode  |  January 9th, 2025  |  1 hr 20 mins

How big is a game? How small is it? These questions are a matter of perspective, and Superluminal is here to teach you about perspective.

462: Super Castlevania IV

Episode  |  January 2nd, 2025  |  1 hr 11 mins

Casltevania evolves into the nest generation. This is the last hurrah of the Classic-vanias. Demanding platforming, simple progression. Dare we say we prefer them over the RPG-vanias at this point?

WOFF Dispatch: Duckstream 2024

Episode  |  December 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 39 mins

We did a party to raise money for charity. We stayed up all night even though we're so old. We did raise that money, though.