This week, off-season winds of tomfoolery bring friend of the podcast Sam "Zeral" for a surprise visit, so we may as well embrace the vibe.

But joke games are too low-hanging for the crew, so we instead explore Street Fighter's almost equally-obvious joke character, Final Fantasy VII's almost equally-obvious joke minigames, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's almost equally-obvious joke character-based minigames. Wait a minute...

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Music credits (in order of discussion):

Hollow Knight: Gods & Nightmares - "Truth, Beauty and Hatred" by Christopher Larkin

Xenoblade Chronicles - "Riki the Legendary Heropon" by ACE+

Street Fighter Alpha 3 - "Performance (Dan's Theme)" by Takayuki Iwai, Yuki Iwai, Isao Abe, Hideki Okugawa, and Tetsuya Shibata

Pokémon: Colosseum - "Mirror B" (unconfirmed title) by Tsukasa Tawada

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - "Gestral Beach - Is It a Gestral or a Volleyball?" by Lorien Testard

Chained Echoes - "Turtle Race Song" by ZILF

Deltarune - "Lancer" and "Vs. Lancer" by Toby Fox

Undertale - "Tem Shop" and "Dogsong" by Toby Fox

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth - "It's Hard to Stand on Two Feet" by an unconfirmed composer

Double Dragon: Neon - "End Credits (Dared to Dream)" by Jake Kaufman and Kazunaka Yamane

Production credits:

Hosts:

Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone

Ranakel

Sam "Zeral"

Audio producer:

Galen "The SoundGuy" Firestone

Executive producer:

Ranakel

Writing and publishing:

Ranakel

Edie Alexsander