Deep Listens: Furi and the Value of Difficulty
by thatpinguino
Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for video games. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out! In this episode we are joined once again by John Krisch to di...
Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for video games. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out!
In this episode we are joined once again by John Krisch to discuss Furi, a recently-released, brutally-difficult, action game. We discuss the game's skillful blending of various twitch gaming styles and it's well beautiful level and character designs. After praising the game's aesthetics, Gino launches several complaints about the modern school of "hard but fair" game design. Billy and John take turns defending the game's difficulty against Gino's passionate disdain and Pete's precise critiques. We finish up our discussion by focusing in on the game's story and its use of multiple endings.