Mice, Blades, And Knights – The Indie TWIG Roundup - Gaming Podcast
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What are the highlights of this week's indie gaming news?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. We have got an awesome week of indie news just for you. MousePI is gonna release, Shovel Knight's dropping the beat, and a quick look at five upcoming titles spanning cyberpunk, sci-fi, and Chinese peaks. I am your host, Ace. And joining me, he's taking up his shovel and bopping baddies to the beat. It's Josh.
I just came up with that riff all by myself on the spot, guys.
I hope you trademark it. We always talk about how good music is in indie games. We can confirm Josh is not in an indie game.
Also, I beatboxed that, everybody.
That was right off the riff, man. And not even a cyberpunk dystopia will stop him from becoming a cowboy. It's Ryan.
hey that's copyrighted ryan what the heck man ryan bro you owe me five cents five cents wow that's my royal whatever you need partner i guess the penny doesn't exist anymore so it has to be five cents i feel like ryan's brain wanted to go to like a yeehaw or like cowboy kind of thing and then he was like no i'm just gonna disappoint me i was expecting a good old a good old yeehaw or something
couldn't even give me that fellas we have looked at november november is barren so i have to look even further off to see what we have coming because even the indies aside from constance uh indies are very far and few between right now there's good ones at least sorry sorry other indie developers that might be dropping a game in november So I wanted to start with some indie news on a game we've talked about before. Mouse P.I. Do you guys remember Mouse P.I.?
Yes, absolutely.
What can we expect from the upcoming game Mouse P.I.?
It is the 1930s rubber hose, hand-drawn FPS boomer shooter starring a mouse or, you know, we'll just call him a rat because that's the whole thing on this show is I love games with rats.
No way, Ace. Do you differentiate between mice and rats?
Depending.
We know you love rats, but is a mouse inferior to a rat in your mind?
It's not a deal breaker in every sense of the meaning, but not the rats are just a lot less than a little bit.
Right.
Yeah. It's just like a little less like Mina is Mina is a mouse, but you know, Reggie from tales of iron is a rat. Okay. I love them both equally. I think anyway, hate doesn't uh hate doesn't equally right he's trying to be all correct i love rats okay mice are fine but i love rats okay a rat could a rat could beat up a mouse well that's just i mean that's the superior creature right so it's okay dude yeah yeah because rats are like two times the size of have you ever seen a new york rat bro oh have you seen all right just a quick aside have you guys seen the like video of the rats
This is like before recording. He's like, guys, we're short on time. We can't get off track. It was so easy.
Have you guys seen the video of the rat in the New York subway carrying away an entire pizza?
No, but have you seen the ones where they're grabbing like pigeons? Oh, yeah.
How is the collaboration between Shovel Knight and other indie games significant?
It was night vision, but there was a bird flying by and it's sitting there and then it just reaches out and grabs it. Yeah.
Dude, insane. Rats are crazy. Anyway, back on topic. Okay. Mouse PI, which was initially slated to come out this year, has been pushed back, but does have an official release date. It is now coming out March 19th, 2026. What are you guys' thoughts on Mouse PI overall?
So, Ace, you and I were talking earlier. Here's my thoughts on this. I said I think the art style and the visuals in this game are incredible. The way that they have presented this game is top-notch. My concern is, is it all about the visuals or do we actually have an in-depth shooter here? Because if this is a shooter that is just push-left-click, And sometimes your bullets look different. Sometimes your bullets go boom, but that's it. I don't think this game is going to succeed or at least be for me. So if they can have an actually good in-depth shooter with mechanics and things like that that help to carry the game, I think that the art style will only accentuate that. But if they are relying on the art style to sell this game and the actual shooter mechanics are just really dumb...
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the highlights of this week's indie gaming news?
0:12–2:16
2
What can we expect from the upcoming game Mouse P.I.?
2:16–3:43
3
How is the collaboration between Shovel Knight and other indie games significant?
3:43–4:57
4
What makes Dinoblade an exciting new indie game?
4:57–6:07
5
What unique features does Dark Light Survivor offer?
6:07–7:08
6
What is the gameplay like in Far Far West?
7:08–8:17
7
How does 13Z: The Zodiac Trials incorporate Chinese mythology?
8:17–9:45
8
What are the final thoughts on the discussed indie games?
9:45–28:09
Speakers
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