This week, Jared and I are discussing video game reviews and whether they’re really useful in 2022. We talk about review aggregate websites and the negatives that come with those for the industry, how fandoms weaponize reviews, and how they’ve changed throughout the years, including questioning how useful one paragraph reviews actually were back in the day.
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This week, Jared and I are talking about an infamous game that…actually isn’t bad? We played through the first Shenmue game, and we talk about the development, the story, the forklifts, Tom the Hot Dog Man, and our overall thoughts about this game.
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This week, we chat about the Nintendo from February 9, 2022. We talk about the big announcements, the revival of some games from the 90s and early 2000s, the acknowledgement of the existence of the Satellaview, and why I will go missing in September–and I apologize in advance.
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Valentine’s Day is coming, and love is in the air! That means it’s time for another otome episode! This week, we chat about Dairoku: Agents of Sakuratani, where you play as a new agent who helps out supernatural beings…and dates them. (And her boss) I talk about the routes, how much I enjoyed the side characters, and how the whole time I just kept wanting to get to the Semi route to see what would make him finally open his eyes.
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This week, we have a few things to chat about. First up, we have the big news about another studio acquisition and reiterate how this is not a good direction for the video game industry. After that, Jared and I talk about The Legend of Zelda Link’s Awakening, and how Nintendo folks must’ve gotten high and watched Twin Peaks before making it. Finally, Jared talks about the new Pokémon Legends: Arceus and the new directions that game takes.
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This week, Jared and I played the most recent SMT game, Shin Megami Tensei V. We chat about the difficulty, how the game does a lot of things right, how it does the story very wrong, and how we chose the best protagonist names of all time.
Leave a CommentThis week, Jared and I start the episode by chatting down the news of Microsoft attempting to buy Activision Blizzard and what that will mean for the video game industry as a whole and if it’ll clean up the mess that is Activision Blizzard. After that, Jared finally really played through Super Mario 64 for the first time, and we chat about our (mostly) differing opinions on the game.
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This week, I got super scared as Jared and I played through Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope. We talk about the story, spooky time travel, how absolutely terrified I was basically the whole game, and ultimately how we were able to work together to solve the mystery of Little Hope!
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In our first episode of the year, Jared and I are back to talk about otome!! I played through Cupid Parasite, and so I talk about all the routes and guys, the issues with translation, and ultimately why this game didn’t click with me.
Leave a CommentIt sure has been a year again, eh? This was an interesting year in games, and there were some fantastic surprises, some important rereleases or remakes, and several games with really strong narratives.1 I feel like this list isn’t truly surprising given that it is ME we’re talking about here, but it was still a lot of fun to play some great and oftentimes impactful games in this dumpster fire of a year. Check out the podcast here and Jared’s write up here.
Anyway, let’s get this party started! There will be spoilers behind the cut!
