The Sinking City

They gave it away on PS5, so I'm gonna play it on the Pro.

Um, I will get back to Sinking City too.

I just wanna try something else.

Uh, and then Saturday co-stream, Saturday podcast, which will mostly be Nick talking about Nintendo and how goddamn good that Zelda 40th anniversary Direct was.

Yeah, of course.

I played through The Sinking City 2, which came out.

I didn't necessarily love the first Sinking City.

The first Sinking City is very... focus on you talking to people and doing like detective work and stuff and kind of like figuring out what's going on in this world uh this eldritch horror world or whatever um sinking city 2 is literally just like timu resident evil 2 and that's great because like just get me in there have me fight a bunch of fucked up monster things and have a depressing tragedy story and i'm good that's all i need sounds great hell yeah Um, it's kind of janky in the way that I think all of, I can't remember the company that made it, but all of their games are kind of janky.

They're the Sherlock Holmes people and sinking city one, of course, and all that stuff.

So they're all just like a little bit shy of being really good playing, but like it was good enough to get through.

Uh, the survival horror stuff is really good.

Shop hair at Sephora.

Sinking City 2 is...

Yahtzee, if you're about to say the sequel to Sinking City 1, I'm going to push you into a hedge.

Sinking City 2 is a game.

A game by Frogwares.

They have all the Sherlock Holmes games and who also, incidentally, made Sinking City 1, a Lovecraftian game that played an awful lot like one of their Sherlock Holmes games.

In Sinking City 2, returning protagonist Charles Reed must...

Oh, hang on.

I recently finished playing the entire Bioshock trilogy.

And then I recently started playing a game called The Sinking City 2, which is a new survival horror game that just came out last week.

That's a sequel to like the super janky semi-open world Lovecraftian game that came out a few years ago.

Oh yeah, that was

How do some games that are brilliant never get a sequel, and some games that everyone agrees are awful get a

sequel? Yeah.

Crazy, because the first Sinking City is a bad game.

It's definitely swinging for the fences, and a lot of stuff is really genuinely interesting.

Okay.

I've got the, I've got the, the Sinking City on my, my backlog that I've gotta put on because the sequels-

Oh

... come out, or coming out.

We're gonna be getting into The Duskbloods here in just a moment.

Uh, we're also gonna be talking about The Sinking City 2, which I'm very interested in because that first one I felt like was, uh, a, a very, like, um...

Had a lot of ideas, I think, and, and I'm curious to see how those have expanded and if the execution is any better in the second one.

Uh, and then we're gonna check in with Charles and hear and see, uh, an update on his Fields of Mistria farm.

Well, cool.

Well, let's take a quick break.

Uh, we've got a word from our sponsor, and then we'll come back to talk about The Sinking City, Fields of Mistria, and then answer a few more listener questions.

We'll be right back right after this.

Um, it's actually been a pretty busy week.

While Johnny and I were talking a little bit, uh, one of the things I wanna cover for sure is the Sinking City 2 and see what people thought of that, um, and cover some of the reviews.

Sorry, we had to start a little early, Johnny, because, uh, the video was going.

So-

Right, yeah.

Um, 'cause not only that game reviewed well, but it seemed also, uh, the new game from Frogwares, the Sinking City 2, which I mean, they went through some-

Yeah

...

Yeah, there was, um, yeah, there was a big, um, there was a big back and forth about who owned the franchise-

Yeah, who owned the IP

... for The Sinking City, I think.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Make sure you pay attention and search in every nook and every cranny.

And on August 18th, we have The Sinking City 2 coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S.

Set in the roaring '20s, The Sinking City 2 is a survival horror steeped in Lovecraftian dread.

Defy an Eldritch deity and explore the drowned alleys of Arkham, stalked by the dead, as you weigh one life against an entire city.

And then on August 20, we've got Mortal Shell 2 coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. Mortal Shell 2 is a sequel that significantly expands on the original with unrestricted adrenaline-charged combat, deeper weapon design with extensive upgrade options, and an emphasis on free exploration.

It's one of those classic, they're not actually trans, they're just dressing like a girl, but they aren't.

I d- I, I don't know.

I tell you what, though, Elliot, despite Steins;Gate reboot looking very mid, I am very keen on The Sinking City 2.