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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

Hi all! This week, Jared and I decided to talk about the biggest surprise game of the year–Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. This strategy RPG had a recipe to be terrible, but it shocked us how great it it was. There is a spoiler warning when we get into story elements, if you don’t want to be spoiled on that. It’s definitely worth it to listen to how I defeated the final boss, though.

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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–Beat EVO YG

This week, Jared and I decided to talk about something a little outside the box. Most of you know about my love of K-Pop, and Jared has a love of rhythm games. Beat EVO YG is a mix of both! It’s centered around the artists of YG Entertainment (BIGBANG AND G-DRAGON Y’ALL) Since it’s free to play, we talk about how it works and if it’s constantly asking for money to succeed. We also talk about the music selection and what I felt was missing from the tracklist. Jared compares it to other mobile rhythm games, and what they do extremely well and also not so well.
 
Long story short, if you’ve ever been interested in K-Pop in the slightest, this is a good way to check out some songs and have fun playing as well.
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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–The X-Rated Games of the Atari 2600

This week, Jared and I decided to dive into my dissertation research a bit and talk about one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the early video games industry–the X-rated Atari 2600 games released in 1982 and 1983. We talk about the games in detail, talk about their contribution to the video game crash of 82-83, and we talk about the trajectory of adult games after these games were long gone and mostly forgotten.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions about adult themes, sex, and scenes of rape in a video game.

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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–Final Fantasy X-2

This week, Jared and I decided to talk about an often misunderstood game–Final Fantasy X-2. We talk about how great the game is, the battle mechanics, the feminine aspects of the game, why people hate it, how it works as a sequel for Final Fantasy X, and a dose of gender in video games as well!

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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–The 2018 Persona Announcements

I’m 10000% sure that anybody who knows me isn’t surprised that Jared and I wanted to talk about the new Persona announcements this week. We talk about Persona 5 the Animation, Persona Q 2, Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night, and Persona 5 Dancing Star Night. You can hear us talk about which ones we’re excited about and which we are a little hesitant on. I also tell you guys which hypothetical spin-off Persona game I’d sell my own kidney for. We talk about which characters we’d want in the games, and what we think the PQ2 game is going to be. We also laugh a lot about P3 protag dancing on his own grave.

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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun

Jared and I decided this week to talk about 2014’s Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun. After reading the first volume of the manga, I decided to watch the anime. Jared was already into the series, so we discuss what makes the anime so funny, the differences in the manga and the anime, how amazing the characters all are, and you get to hear me record while sick AGAIN.

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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–Final Fantasy VI

This week, Jared and I decided to talk about one of the most popular Final Fantasy games–Final Fantasy VI. I first played this game back in the 90s, and Jared played it for the first time this month. We talk about how the SNES version held up, our favorite moments, if it lived up to the hype for Jared, and how Kefka is absolutely the best Final Fantasy villain of all time.

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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA–SNES Classic and Old Games

This week, Jared and I discuss the recently announced SNES Classic. We go through the list of games and discuss each game and also talk about games we believe could have made the cut as well. Is the price point worth it? Will there be another shortage? We also discuss some other older games that we have recently played.

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