045: What Remains of Edith Finch

We climb our family tree (literally and figuratively) in What Remains of Edith Finch.

Developer: Giant Sparrow | Publisher: Annapurna Interactive | Release Date: April 25, 2017

Jacob, Mike and Moe crawl through doggy doors, chase birds, swing and hide in bunkers.

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Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

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Show Notes (spoilers):

2:10 A warning about What Remains of Edith Finch
3:30 Moe makes a surprising proclamation about this game
4:10 What is a walking simulator?
6:15 Why are we playing What Remains of Edith Finch?
7:10 Jacob accidentally spoiled the game for Mike
9:40 The opening of What Remains of Edith Finch
11:50 The Finch’s house
13:40 Introduction to the game’s narrator, Edith Finch
15:20 Entering the house
17:10 Jacob brings up Matilda, The Curious Case Benjamin Button and The Pagemaster
18:30 We introduce the structure of the game and start with the story of Molly Finch
21:20 Cats, owls, sharks and sea monsters
26:30 The game’s toughest question
29:00 Odin Finch and the history of the Finch family
32:00 Calvin Finch
35:00 Barbara Finch
37:00 Moe compares this section to Telltale’s The Walking Dead and Jacob brings up XIII, Killer7 and Madworld
39:35 Walter Finch
43:30 Jacob compares this section to the Beginner’s Guide
44:00 We looked down
46:10 Sam Finch
51:45 Gregory Finch
54:30 Gus Finch
57:00 Milton Finch
59:20 Mike connects this game to Unfinished Swan
1:00:35 Lewis Finch
1:08:00 Content warning (suicide and self-harm)
1:09:45 End of content warning
1:10:05 The beginning of the end (of the story)
1:13:30 Wait… who is Edith talking to?
1:15:15 Jacob… the game has to come full circle!
1:17:00 Moe brings it back to Lord of the Rings
1:17:45 The crew wraps it up
1:21:00 A question from the Ludonarrative Podcast
1:25:05 We announce our next game: Superhot