In This House We Play David Cage Games (Episode 60) - a podcast by Pam and Riley

Our guest today is Yussef Cole who writes about games for outlets like Waypoint and Unwinnable. We talk about a game he recently reviewed - Detroit Become Human.

What we've been up to

• (00:02:45) Destiny 2 (Yussef)


• (00:09:08) Pokemon Go (Riley)


• (00:14:53) The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Screamride, Jurassic World Evolution (Pam)


• (00:19:37) IT, Hereditary, Ancillary Justice (Yussef)


• (00:27:19) Make it Sound Fiction podcast (Yussef)


• (00:29:30) GOT7 concert (Riley)


• (00:34:01) Masters of Doom, Citations Needed podcast (Pam)

Detroit: Become Human

Spoilers galore here! We talk a lot about this playthrough of the game, from previous guest Adam Koebel.

• (00:41:01) What is Detroit: Become Human


• (00:42:08) Yussef's review of Detroit


• (00:48:35) Politics and race


• (00:59:06) Android economy


• (01:03:02) Worldbuilding


• (01:07:03) Kara's story


• (01:18:04) Branching narrative


• (01:25:20) Unanswered questions


• (01:28:00) Menu android


• (01:30:44) Final thoughts


• (01:34:00) How does Detroit compare to Heavy Rain specifically? @StephenWilds

Contact information

• Riley @kaleri_


• Pam @jasyla_


• Yussef @youmeyou

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Music: Vivacity by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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