78: Three Steps (Kiri-ai: the Duel, Body of Evidence, Dawn of the Zeds‪)‬ The Last Standee

Three steps, as it has always been.
First, a welcome: Welcome to Episode 78 of the Last Standee Podcast, and our first episode of 2024! How are the smoldering remains of society treating you at the beginning of the new calendar?

Second, an intro: after long debate, we decided to kick off the year with an episode with the regular formula: three games, three speakers, some fil rouge to connect everything. Yet, this episode is special? Is it maybe because one speaker was recording from a van parked in an undisclosed location, a location which we can only hope isn't deeply unsettling? Maybe. Or maybe because our good sound engineer and entertainment scientist Alexis found the audio quality of that recording to be among the best ones? Your guess is as good as mine.

Third, some details about the episode: we have the shortest long Standee Catch-up ever, then we merrily follow the macabre titular three steps: first step, Alessio talks us about Kiri-ai: The Duel, an elegant two-player card game about a samurai duel which, you bet, can only end with the creation of a fresh body. Second step, Alexis follows up with the bureaucracy regarding a freshly created body with Body of Evidence, a high-end mystery game with a cool gimmick where investigators try to solve what you could define a "cold" case surrounding an autopsy. Third step, Fen recounts what happens when all these corpses get inevitably reanimated in Dawn of the Zeds: Third Edition, a very versatile game which is only arguably a tower defense, or we can say, a tower defense and much more!

So, without further ado, let's get it on with the episode!