Hello and welcome to Watch, Play, Cry! Hosted by myself, Andy Wong. Every week some good friends and I play a new narrative video game together and discuss themes and emotions it evoked and our own overall review from our experience playing it as a group.
Join us on our amateur book-club-narrative-video-game-experience as we Watch, Play, & Cry together!
Untitled Goose Game = Forget Elliot Moose, A Goose is on the Loose!
🪿😈🖕 Today we discuss Untitled Goose Game, developed by House House, & published by Panic Inc. Untitled Goose Game answers the question - what if you were a goose, but also an asshole?
🫸📦‼️With just 4 actions: picking up items, dragging them, flapping our wings, and HONKING, Untitled Goose Game shows sometimes having is just about that - having fun!
👀▶️😭Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Untitled Goose Game, and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
10 May 2024
Sherlock Holmes - Crimes & Punishment: This Game is Afoot!
🕵️♂️🔎💡 Today we discuss Sherlock Holmes - Crimes & Punishment, developed by Frogwares, & Frogwares Ireland Limited. This game puts you behind history’s most famous fictional detective that’s not Batman, and even lets you choose the outcome of the case depending on the clues you find!
🧠⚖️🥸 Making you feel smart without having to be smart, you will deal with moral judgements, mysteries, and best of all, DISGUISES! Also, we sprinkled in some knowledge about cuisine that Sherlock probably doesn’t even know about - what kind? Listen until the end to find out!
👀▶️😭Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Sherlock Holmes - Crimes and Punishment, and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
15 Mar 2024
Deltarune Ch1 - What Happens When We Try Voice ACTing
🎒🦸💡 Today we discuss Deltarune Ch1, developed and published by Toby Fox. Deltarune is an RPG that subverts the usual violent tropes in a story about a kid’s first day at school named Kris. Kris and Susie, the class emo-bully, end up transported to the “DARK WORLD”, where they are the prophetic Lightners who have come to save the DARK WORLD from an evil King who has sprouted an evil fountain!(?)
🤜😈🏰 Violence, Bullies, and Fantasy all wrapped up in a kid’s first day at school - Deltarune Ch1 had us reliving and asking a lot of questions as we reflect on our first days at school!
👀▶️😭Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Deltarune Ch1, and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
7 Jun 2023
A Plague Tale: Innocence - Hugo! Ah, he's Hugone
Today we discuss A Plague Tale: Innocence, developed by Asobo Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive. A Plague Tale: Innocence is about a PLAGUE in 1348 France where Amicia de Rune embarks on a journey to save her brother Hugo de Rune from an unknown illness - the macula - that her mom was trying to protect him from before being murdered along with her father and their entire estate by the Inquisition.
A timely game we played during our very own pandemic, A Plague Tale: Innocence had us wondering: Have our attitudes and approach towards illnesses changed much since the 1400s, and if so, how? Do we attach attributes to those who get sick today like we have historically? The only unambiguous question, though, is whether rats are gross. Yes they are.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on A Plague Tale: Innocence, and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
1 Jun 2023
Not For Broadcast - But Defintiely for Podcast
We’re back! Today we discuss Not For Broadcast, an early access game developed by NotGames and published by tinyBuild. Set in a dystopian world, you as Alex must navigate putting together the nightly news live and decide how stories are framed and what to censor as events unfold in a series of satirical parody sketches of the news and topical events.
Exploring the ethics of satire, censorship, all through gameplay featuring some of the most interesting (and sometimes funny) sketch-acts we’ve ever seen, Not For Broadcast asks us the questions we’ve been asking our own media: What would you do?
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Not For Broadcast, and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
15 Oct 2022
Little Nightmares - Big Story
Today we discuss Little Nightmares, a 2.5D Side Scroller that features a protagonist in a yellow poncho, stuck on a boat where kids appear to be kidnapped to be turned into food for much larger, grotesque humanoids to devour.
A fun, mysterious, and sometimes terrifying adventure, how did Little Nightmares manage to tell such a big story without any dialogue?
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Firewatch and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
18 Apr 2022
Life Is Strange Episode 5 - The Bullshit Sandwhich?
Life is Strange is a narrative game following one High School Senior, Max Caulfield, who gains the ability to reverse time! But with this great power comes great…consequences for her actions. Max – and we – learn that sometimes the “right” choice isn’t always clear, and our choices affect the people around us despite our best intentions.
Episode 5 wraps up the first series in a cataclysmic (and/or melancholic depending on your choice) finale. The episode doesn't hold its punches, whilst tackling themes of what it means to be an artist, what it takes to make a genuine apology, and what it takes to forgive others as well as yourself.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on this final episode of Life is Strange and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
9 Dec 2021
Life Is Strange Episode 4 - It's The End Of The World Party And I Feel Feelings
Life is Strange is a narrative game following one High School Senior, Max Caulfield, who gains the ability to reverse time! But with this great power comes great…consequences for her actions. Max – and we – learn that sometimes the “right” choice isn’t always easy, and courage is always scarce when you need it. Do you look up the walkthrough? DO YOU?
Episode 4 explores what it means to live a good life, courage, and what it means to be a “hero/in”. Also, what a weak phone password looks like.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Life is Strange (and what dog breeds we are!) and let us know your thoughts and feelings (and dog breed) as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
10 Nov 2021
Life is Strange Episode 3 - Look At This Photograph!
Life is Strange is a narrative game following one High School Senior, Max Caulfield, who gains the ability to reverse time! But with this great power comes great…consequences for her actions. Max – and we – learn that sometimes the “right” choice isn’t always clear, and our choices affect the people around us despite our best intentions.
Episode 3 explores strong themes such as Virtue Signaling, Stigma Against Drugs, and…sharing Toothbrushes? The third episode of this series reminds us that life can not only be hard to decipher, but wildly unpredictable.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Life is Strange and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
13 Oct 2021
Life is Strange Episode 2 - Bad Decisions or Bad Timing?
Life is Strange is a narrative game following one High School Senior, Max Caulfield, who gains the ability to reverse time! But with this great power comes great…consequences for her actions. Max – and we – learn that sometimes the “right” choice isn’t always clear, and our choices affect the people around us despite our best intentions.
Episode 2 explores strong themes such as Sexual Harassment, Cyberbullying, and…the Weather? The second episode of this series reminds us that life can not only be strange, but hard.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Life is Strange and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
31 Jul 2021
Life is Strange Episode 1 - Upon Selfieflection
Life is Strange is an narrative game following one High School Senior, Max Caulfield, who gains the ability to reverse time! But with this great power comes great…consequences for her actions. Max – and we – learn that sometimes the “right” choice isn’t always clear, and our choices affect the people around us despite our best intentions.
Reliving high school drama, the power of friendships, and pushing our patience for jerks, the first episode of this series reminds us that life is, indeed, strange.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Life is Strange and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
9 Jun 2021
Firewatch - Oh, My Knees!
Firewatch is an “adventure game” (hiking simulator) with an emotional prologue that our protagonist tries to escape and find solace from in the woods, where we agree to join THE FIREWATCH.
Long hikes, long distance relationships, and a long-standing mystery, Firewatch had us observing a lot more than just forest fires.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Firewatch and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
24 May 2021
Oxenfree - Pull Shapes!
Oxenfree follows senior high school student Alex, who goes to a local island as a pre-school hurrah, but ends up uncovering the dark mysteries of the island she grew up in.
A secret shrouded in war, radio waves, and geometric shapes, Oxenfree manages to fit multiple dimensions of story in this 2.5D game.
Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings on Oxenfree (over internet-waves and not potentially-haunted-radio-waves) and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
13 May 2021
Super Seducer - Dated Dating Advice or Credible Coach?
Super Seducer is a dating simulator that attempts to coach the player on how to be a better pick up artist, maybe? On the sidewalk, in a bar, in the office – NOWHERE IS SAFE FROM THIS MAN!
Was the game really a lesson in becoming a Super Seducer or Super Reducer? In realizing Fantasy Dates or Dating Nightmares? Either way, it's...an experience.
Join us as we take a break from reality and enter the (arguably worst) dating-reality-tv world of Super Seducer, and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
27 Apr 2021
Devotion - Horror Close To Home
SPOILERS AHEAD!
Devotion is a first-person atmospheric horror game depicting the life of a family shadowed by religious belief and a father’s failing career. Explore a 1980s Taiwanese apartment complex lost in time as it gradually shifts into a hellish nightmare. Delve into the vows each member of the family has made, and witness their devotion.
Exploring the horrors of parental pressure, mental illness stigma, societal pressure on gender roles, as well as Mysticism - Devotion doesn’t pull punches! (Although it does pull on heart-strings...and other body parts). Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings of Devotion and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
11 Apr 2021
Her Story - Their Story, Our Story
SPOILERS AHEAD!
We play as an amateur detective piecing together the crime and story of Hanna (or Eve) through short interrogation videos that make themselves available when the player inputs a keyword present in the clips.
Good Clues, Bad Clues, Dumb Clues, & Hidden Clues - this game has it all! Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings of Her Story and let us know your thoughts and feelings as well while we Watch Play Cry together.
11 Apr 2021
The Walking Dead Season 1 Ep 2 - Trading Gas for Food or Survival for Morals?
SPOILERS AHEAD! Our Ep1 file got corrupted (it turned!), so join us on our journey through Telltale's the Walking Dead Season 1, starting with Ep2!
Food sources, In-group vs Out-groups, and Trust - oh my! Hear our thoughts on these topics explored through the game and let us know yours as we Watch Play Cry together.
28 Mar 2021
What is Watch Play Cry?
Hello and welcome to Watch, Play, Cry! Hosted by myself, Andy Wong. Every week some good friends and I play a new narrative video game together and discuss themes and emotions it evoked and our own overall review from our experience playing it as a group.
Join us on our amateur book-club-narrative-video-game-experience as we Watch, Play, & Cry together!
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