Celeste

  • Tanked Up 303 – Loops, tricks, and multijumps

    This week we are joined by @GameOverBeer’s own Tom Maya. We chat about the game’s we have been playing, which are: Celeste, Loop Hero, Olliolli World, and Pump BMX amongst others. We also talk tough games of our youth and how they birthed the rogue-like genres.   Tom has...
  • Tanked Up 177 – Bird of Lies

    This week we discuss Bird of Passage and the excellence of itch.io, mention Celeste and Inside which have just become free on the Epic Games Store and go in-depth on Telling Lies the new FMV game from Sam Barlow. Both Ben and Aadil have a couple of beers this...
  • Mental Health in gaming

    Mental health is not an easy topic to tackle in any medium, least of all games. In film or books you have to tell the story, there needs to be a character with whom we can empathise; whether through our own personal struggles or not. Games need to achieve...
  • Yearly Review – Ben (2018)

    In 2017 I managed to fit in a decent amount of games, films and TV shows. This year I haven’t had much time for films or TV. A whirlwind summer prepping for and getting married saw my time limited. I have caught a few like Netflix’s third season of...
  • Tanked Up 125 – White Knights

    Aadil has returned from the frozen north to jump on the soap box with Ben and scream at people for a couple of hours. We discuss the Portman Groups ruling over the use of words on beer labelling, the big issue with twitter interactions in the gaming sphere and...
  • Tanked Up 124 – Agent Celeste

    Thinking they’d just do a quick episode after the football Ben and Lucy kick off with a quiz. They manage to hit their stride to discuss Lucy’s recent beer adventures and Ben’s bender of a Stag weekend. Then after several own goals and both pre-recording beers and the first...
  • Tanked Up 105 – Shadow of Celeste

    Ben and Lucy grab some beers and chat about the games they’ve been playing over the last week. Lucy kicks off with Celeste, A 2D platformer with a story, and Ben counters with Bloodborne, the Gothic inspired boss battler. Lucy comes back with dystopian set, narrative driven The Red...