Ep. 50: "I’m a Sinner, Baby" (The Forgotten City)

Gay for Play: A Video Game Podcast

***Timestamps for Spoilers***
(Spoiler discussion for The Forgotten City runs from 50:15 to 1:03:00)
Salve friend!
Believe it or not, this is our 50TH EPISODE OF THE POD!!! We wanna thank y'all up top for helping us make it to half of a hundo. Here's to at least 50 more!
For our 50th episode, Daddy Nintendo gifted us an anniversary gift in the form of a juicy Nintendo Direct to discuss! We share our thoughts on Kirby going Throatzilla on large inanimate objects, Earthbound finally landing on Switch Online, Mario Kart 8 receiving new DLC 8 years into its lifespan, and more!
For our main topic, we're discussing THE FORGOTTEN CITY, a 2021 first-person mystery time-loop adventure game that we're so excited to dive into.
In this game, you, the player, have seemingly traveled through time and stumbled upon a mysterious underground Ancient Roman city, where all of the townspeople are living in a quasi-utopia bound by one simple "Golden Rule": no one may commit a sin, or else everyone in the town will perish. As you repeat this day over and over again (Groundhog's Day-style) you need to figure out which resident(s) will commit a sin and somehow put a stop to it, all while uncovering the insidious truth about this mysterious city.
But that begs the question: what exactly *is* a sin? Who decides what's a sin and what isn't?
Is gay a sin? What about being homophobic? The game gets into those questions!
It's a delightful, trippy puzzle-box of a game with so much to say about morality, religion, queerness in antiquity, and so much more.
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Later, in "What else we're Gay For this week", we get into some pop-culture news with our thoughts on the Winter Olympics (decidedly the gayer of the two Olympiads) and the Oscar noms (because we were, famously, a film podcast for a month.)
It's a jam packed episode, and one of our favorite conversations we've had on a game in a while. We hope y'all enjoy it as well!
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Intro and outro music by Connor Marsh (@connorjmarshmallow)
Show art by Nick Adams (@nickadams.art)
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MUSIC THIS WEEK:
"The Forgotten City" by Michael Allen
"Through Adversity To The Stars" by Michael Allen