Category: Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Podcast

This week, Jared and I continued with our replays of the Zero Escape series with Zero Time Dilemma. We previously talked briefly about this game when it came out, but we wanted to see how it held up, if our opinions changed at all, how it all ties in in the series, and my favorite video of all time.

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This week, Jared and I played the most recent game in the Fire Emblem franchise, Three Houses. We discuss our overall thoughts on the characters, the story, how I felt about the NG+, the problematic queer bating, and how people really should just play Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. Fair warning, we do vary a bit from the consensus on this game.

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This week, Jared and I take down some Nazis in Paris in the 1980s in a spin-off, Wolfenstein: Youngblood. We talk about how the gameplay differs from a traditional Wolfenstein, the sometimes confusing genre of this game, how it sets up some wild stuff for the next game, and how the game got review bombed. Also beware the body horror.

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This week, Jared and I take on two very different games. The first is the latest game from the Yakuza team, Judgment. Jared talks about how it is to be a detective and attorney while people are losing their eyes left and right. We then talk about the endings of Virtue’s Last Reward, since we recently did another play through.

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Well, Jared and I sure as heck did play Resident Evil 5. The problem is that it actually really sucks. We both enjoyed it when it came out, but we discuss the issues in the game, how Wesker is a late throwback to the Matrix, and how punching a boulder wasn’t quite as cool as we remember.

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I always wondered who the architect of the castle in Symphony of the Night was because he had some crazy design choices. Apparently that fictional architect got more work for the castle in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night! This was one of the biggest Kickstarter games, and so Jared and I played it to see if it could break the nostalgia crowd funding curse. We also do a mid-summer preview of what the rest of 2019 might look like for releases and what we are hyped for.

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This week, Jared and I dove into another Kyoto Animation movie, Liz and the Blue Bird. While technically a spin-off from Sound Euphonium, the movie can stand alone as well. (Which is good since I haven’t seen Sound Euphonium!) We talk about the wild flexes Kyoto Animation does, the details of the story, and how the relationship between the two main characters can be interpreted.

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Jared and I played one of the last games on the 3DS, Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, and here we are to talk about it. We talk about what we think about the story and how it works with the cast of 4 games, how the characters are treated in this vs the original Q, how one character that sucked in 5 is actually not bad here, the phenomenal music, and how FeMC deserved better.

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We got through another part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, so Jared and I are here to chat about part 4–Diamond is Unbreakable! We run through the major plot points, our thoughts on what makes Part 4 so different from the rest, how awesome the aesthetics are, and how DiU renewed my love of Savage Garden.

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