Cane And Rinse

“It’s like looking after a bunch of misbehaving kids…” Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker attempted to ring in some changes to the traditional JRPG template for Wii epic The Last Story. Leon, Darren Forman and Tony discuss […] The post The Last Story – Cane and Rinse No.114 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Thank you for rescuing me. My name is Yoshi. On my way to rescue my friends!” In the second of our ‘core’ Super Mario Bros. series of podcasts, Leon, Darren Gargette and Sean Bell of […] The post Super Mario World – Cane and Rinse No.113 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

Danmaku fuss about it but we’re covering a whole load of games in this issue instead of the usual one. This time out we turn our attentions to small but perfectly formed Japanese specialist developer […] The post Cave shoot ’em ups – Cane and Rinse No.112 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Makes you wonder what the point of everything is.” James Carter and Darren Forman along with Joystiq’s Sinan Kubba and The AI Bots’ Dan Clark gather together to confer about Cavia’s third-person action role playing […] The post Nier – Cane and Rinse No.111 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Magical spell is Ei-Ei-Poo!” Tony ‘AiAi’ Atkins, Darren ‘GonGon’ Gargette and Leon ‘MeeMee’ Cox are your guides on this whistle-stop tour of SEGA Amusement Vision’s Super Monkey Ball series, beginning with Toshihiro Nagoshi‘s 2001 coin-op […] The post Super Monkey Ball – Cane and Rinse No.110 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!” In the first of a six podcast series dedicated to the core games of the Super Mario canon Leon, Darren Gargette, James and Karl recollect […] The post Super Mario Bros./2/3/The Lost Levels – Cane and Rinse No.109 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Rule number one: Don’t get me killed.” In 2012 Klei Entertainment released their love letter to the stealth genre in the form of Mark of the Ninja. With Nels Anderson at the helm, what started as a […] The post Mark of the Ninja – Cane and Rinse No.108 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

In addition to issue 107 of the podcast, and a coincidental update to Proteus this week, James sat down to chat with the game’s designer, Ed Key. Ed talks about Proteus from inception to release, and […] The post Podcast special: An interview with Ed Key, designer of Proteus appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

Ed Key and David Kanaga’s collaborative musical exploration game Proteus raised eyebrows equally for its distinctive visual style and interactive music, as much as for its intentional lack of challenge and objectives. Tony Atkins, Sean […] The post Proteus – Cane and Rinse No.107 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“‘In and out within a month’ they said.” Taking in all of Guerrilla’s now six-game PlayStation-exclusive sci-fi FPS series but focusing on Killzone 2 and Killzone 3. The subject matter may be grittier and weightier […] The post Killzone 2 / Killzone 3 – Cane and Rinse No.106 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“What’s next, Arkham County, Arkham Country, or even Arkham World?” We conclude our brief Caped Crusader series with in-depth analysis of Rocksteady‘s highly rated 2011 sequel, Batman: Arkham City. Leon, Jay, James and Darren Forman […] The post Batman: Arkham City – Cane and Rinse No.105 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Don’t go throwing your controller at the cat, it could throw something back and it would only escalate from there!” Sack People of the world unite! Our discussion of Media Molecule‘s LittleBigPlanet takes in user-created […] The post LittleBigPlanet / LittleBigPlanet 2 – Cane and Rinse No.104 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” Leon, James and Karl jump in the communal bath and swap boot-room stories from two decades of virtual soccer management. They also discuss […] The post Football Manager – Cane and Rinse No.103 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Gather round and I’ll tell you a story, of a castle that fills men with fear” Rare’s first game for Microsoft following their megabucks move from Nintendo was comedy haunted house beat ’em up Grabbed […] The post Grabbed by the Ghoulies – Cane and Rinse No.102 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Come on boys! He’s just one man! One man dressed like a lunatic and armed to the teeth.” Cane and Rinse returns for its third volume with our long-awaited appraisal of Rocksteady‘s much-celebrated 2009 surprise […] The post Batman: Arkham Asylum – Cane and Rinse No.101 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“I’m trying to keep a handle on it. But… it’s difficult.” Concluding both our Quantic Dream series and Volume Two of the Cane and Rinse podcast, we turn our attentions to 2010’s PlayStation 3 exclusive […] The post Heavy Rain – Cane and Rinse No.100 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Now hold still, this will only hurt until your brains come flying out!” Ex-LucasArts employees Tim Schafer, David Dixon and Jonathan Menzies formed Double Fine Productions in 2000. Their first completed project was a 3D […] The post Psychonauts – Cane and Rinse No.99 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Well you picked the right place, Cole, a city that needed an honest cop like a thirsty man needed water.” After the best part of a decade in development, Team Bondi’s gritty detective procedural L.A. […] The post L.A. Noire – Cane and Rinse No.98 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

Using the foundations laid down by a 2008 flash game, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes crafted what would become one of the most talked about and well loved digital releases to hit Xbox Live Arcade […] The post Super Meat Boy – Cane and Rinse No.97 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“It all started right here… Where else could it happen?” James, Tony, Sean and special guest, GamerNode’s Eddie Inzauto contend with fourth wall breaking, multiple bouts of coitus and nonsensical story telling to give us […] The post Fahrenheit – Cane and Rinse No.96 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.