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We explore our darkest dreams in To The Moon.

Developer: Freebird Games | Publisher: Freebird Games, X.D. Network Inc. | Release Date: November 1, 2011

Jacob, Moe and Mike travel in time, play for River and sit together in a movie theatre. Oh yeah… and Jacob cries. “I am a soft boy and I cried my eyes out.” Our last episode of 2017 launches on December 27th and we are playing Virginia.

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

Website: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub

Show Notes (spoilers):

• 1:59 Moe tries to explain To The Moon
• 3:50 “Moe’s gonna hate this”
• 4:47 Mike tries to explain To The Moon
• 5:52 How did we play the game?
• 6:40 What was you first impression?
• 9:32 The “Dragon Ball Z” moment
• 11:30 The game’s written dialogue
• 13:22 The “puzzle”
• 14:45 Entering the first memory
• 15:20 The first mention of the music
• 17:00 Character movement (aka the controls)
• 19:25 The next few memories (up to “take care of Anya”)
• 23:05 Did Moe think that River was a serial killer?
• 24:43 The “movie theatre scene”
• 25:45 The “NASA pitch”
• 27:42 Comparing To The Moon to Dragon Ball Z again
• 29:25 The “lighthouse dance”
• 31:07 The issue with Johnny’s memory
• 33:58 A mother’s mistake
• 36:00 We go to the carnival and compare whack-a-mole scores
• 36:43 Star-gazing
• 37:50 “Can you see the constellation?”
• 39:24 Emotional. Devastation.
• 42:42 How are we going alter his memory?
• 44:18 Rosalene vs. Watts
• 47:20 Moe gets to shoot things
• 48:42 Comparing To The Moon to romantic comedies
• 51:35 The final sequence
• 53:23 Jacob loses it… and then comes back
• 54:25 The after-credits scene
• 55:55 To The Moon 2: Finding Paradise + closing thoughts

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