Video Game Player and Video Game Historian
In a now annual tradition, Jared and I are doing another March Madness–this time, it’s the Persona Music Edition!! We debate which Persona song across the games is the best from the 64 that we gathered, and we scientifically decide the best Persona song to date.
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Leave a CommentThe Resident Evil train continues on! This week, Jared and I played through all four routes of Resident Evil 2 remake, so we chat about RE 1.5, how Leon continues to be BDE around Ada, how the game is different from OG RE2, Mr. X scaring the crud out of me, and how Steve the zombie came to exist!
Leave a CommentIf you’re new to the podcast or have missed the many times we’ve discussed the wildness of the series on it in the past, you may not know how much we love this bonkers otome series. Now we’ve seen the release of the final fan disc of Code: Realize, and so Jared and I are here to tell you about how it all wraps up in ~Wintertide Miracles~. We get to celebrate Christmas on Valentine’s Day as we see the boys spend their first Christmases with Cardia, Sholmés pulling some weird sexist shit, Finis being a sass machine, a brand new route, and the implementation of triangle dates.
Leave a CommentThis week, Jared and I are continuing our spooky theme as we continue a dive into the world of Resident Evil. While I’m working on the RE2 Remake, Jared decided he was going to play through REmake (while I watched), and now we have thoughts™ on it! I had previously played Remake (Jill route only), and Jared braved through both Jill and Beefy Chris routes. We talk about OG Resident Evil 1, the various releases, how it holds up, and what surprises Jared most about Resident Evil 1.
Leave a CommentJared and I are in the middle of a Resident Evil bonanza, and instead of watching the BIG GAME on Sunday, we decided to watch a CG Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Vendetta. Starring some series favorites such as rookie cop Leon S. Kennedy, beefy Chris Redfield, and the highly underutilized smarty pants Rebecca Chambers, Vendetta is a ridiculous wild ride of a film. We discuss the movie’s action and plot, how Leon is a sad boy, the fact that Chris gets beat up surprisingly, and how Resident Evil writers clearly have no idea what to do with a great character like Rebecca.
Leave a CommentThis week we get to talk about two of our potential topics in our podcast–it’s an anime AND a manga! I’ve recently started reading the manga for Wotakoi: Love is Hard for an Otaku, and Jared has been reading it for a while. I also watched the 2018 anime near the end of last year, so I bugged Jared until he watched it so we could finally talk about this series. It’s a bit of fresh air due to all of the adult protagonists, but it is also incredibly relatable because of how insanely nerdy it is. There are references all over the place, stupidly cute romance, and moments where Jared says, “oh that’s basically you.” He isn’t wrong. We also talk about the problems of anime adaptations for ongoing manga, and what the anime does right.
This week, Jared and I return to the wild world of 2008 when a fantastic JRPG was an Xbox360 exclusive. (Yes, there were multiple, and yes, most were good.) Since Tales of Vesperia got its definitive release recently, Jared and I talk about our respective first play throughs, what’s changed in the definitive edition, the voice actor controversy, how a dreaming pianist snuck his way into this game, and how Yuri Lowell just wants to make sandwiches for his ragtag group of adventurers.
Leave a CommentSometimes on the SAC OVA, Jared and I get a little educational! Since it’s Jared’s birthday today, we decided to talk about a project he spent an entire semester working on (and it’s so rad!). Jared created a college course on manga! So we talk about how he structured his course, the way that manga is currently treated in academia, which manga was relevant and important for the course, and why a course like this matters so much.
Leave a CommentLast September, Jared and I started watching Pop Team Epic (well, Jared watched it on the original Japanese run too), and we decided that we should finally talk about it. We talk about the show itself and its format, which jokes were the best, how referencing Chrono Trigger and Your Name in one episode made me fall hard for it, and that we both really want to watch Hoshiiro Girldrop.
Leave a CommentAfter giving this game one of the supplementary GOTY awards on the podcast, Jared and I decided to talk at length about the first game in the Trails of Cold Steel series. We talk about the characters, the twists, the similarities and differences to Tokyo Xanadu, and how jazzed we are to continue this amazing series. Also, Crow is ridiculous, as shown in the image.
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