AKA “Rat Cat Monkey Griffin Cryptid”, “Elevated Mind Peers,” “The Land-Crushing Robot Whose Heart Broke That Day,” “The Metaphors Come Tumbling Down,” “The Narcissism of Small Differences,” “A Democratic Unified Nation of Racists”

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:25) — Lawrence plays The Last Guardian

• (02:45) — Is this good? / Animal Lovers Delight In Trico

• (10:05) — Really, the boy is the problem

• (12:30) — Spoiler-Free Story Time / The Death by Newbery Medal problem (and a brief diatribe in how Ghost of Tsushima got around it)

• (23:37) — The Last Guardian’s Technical / Length issues

• (30:57) — It’s called what in Japanese??

• (33:54) — Lawrence’s obligatory platinum trophy-unlocking braggardry cubbyhole

• (38:36) — It’s a little too easy to sound negative about games like this, so to be clear, The Last Guardian is cool

(41:59) — Lee plays Metaphor ReFantazio

• (48:27) — Expectations vs Reality

• (53:18) — “Metaphor is the Earthboundification of Persona”

• (01:01:36) — Metaphor’s story (spoiler-free) in a nutshell (and a brief aside about Neil Druckmann)

• (01:10:11) — A long way of saying that it's harder to get attached to fantasy characters

• (01:30:21) — Final Thoughts: Lee stands with the racists of Metaphor ReFantazio

(01:35:20) — Don’t be beta men; BE VECTORMEN

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