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2:00 Nintendo Direct Mini 8/26, 31:01 random convo about Pokemon, 36:35 Mario Anniversary Direct, 56:21 Mulan and Valve

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This week on the "season finale" of Bean Stock we watched and talk about the past two Nintendo Direct Minis the Partner Showcase and the Mario 35th Anniversary. As devoted followers of the Kingdom Hearts canon, we can't possibly ignore Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory. We sort of look past Fuser, sorry we're just not rhythm or music-making people. Ismat gives us some insight and warning about viruses disguised as World of Tanks. Big Rumble Boxing has the Rocky universe in it so we just start talking about the Rocky and Creed films. Chris gives some Final Fantasy history while talking about the Collection of SaGa. Kevin will die on this hill of getting Persona 4 Golden on consoles. Just Dance is just dance... The Eye Toy and the Kinect had better days, but their legacy was hilarious. Chris says Puyo Puyo which is a very cumbersome word to say. We finally talk about the Mario 35th Anniversary halfway through the episode. We go back in time with the Mario Bros. Game & Watch. Chris is going to force Kevin and Ismat to play Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. Catch us trolling in Super Mario Bros. 35. Chris is going to convert his home into a speedway for Mario Kart Home Circuit. And of course, as much as Chris loves Super Mario 3D All-Stars he can't ignore the unnecessary censorship.

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The beans got together to watch and read some reveals from the DC FanDome, but Ismat was late. We really like the look of The Batman and that gets us on a tear about the many onscreen Batmen. The Snyder Cut has us excited and hopeful about the future of the DCEU. Gotham Knights... looks fine, but we're pretty passionate about Rocksteady's Arkham series and how bad Arkham Origins was. We love the many interpretations of Batman and that's why Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton sharing the screen in The Flash gets us all hot and bothered. Also, we talk about the DC Animated Universe for a while, including the 90's and 00's cartoons. The Suicide Squad movie and game both look dope. Shazam! is a great movie that's all I want to say. And Titans seems to be going the direction a lot of DC properties go: it's becoming Batman.

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It's the tenth episode special and to celebrate we're going to talk about the same things we always do. With all the recent information that has been leaking about PS5 and Xbox Series X we're going to have a good enough conversation about which console is really getting it right this generation. Halo Infinite got delayed so what can Xbox do to boost their launch lineup? It wouldn't be Bean Stock if the conversation didn't derail this time to talking about what companies like WB Games, Square Enix, and Blizzard are doing with their IPs. We talk about what Xbox can do about performance and its push for 120 FPS gaming. We also come back to the conversation about backwards compatibility with more information on Xbox and Playstation's previous efforts. We can't leave Nintendo out of the conversation though can we? Or maybe they want to be left out of this feud. Then at the end, we start talking about whatever, like RockBand, Code Lyoko, and French films. But we finish with a battle between UPS and FedEx.

This week the beans watched the PlayStation State of Play from August 6th. Crash Bandicoot 4 is coming out and Chris can't get the boys to even look at him. Hitman 3 in PSVR is exactly the experience Ismat needs in his life. Vader Immortal is giving us Star Wars Kinect flashbacks. Braid Anniversary is good, but why 13 years later? Ismat really likes The Pathless but doesn't feel like buying it--a running theme for this episode. Spelunky 2 takes us back to the days of the Xbox Live Arcade. Genshin Impact may be anime Breath of the Wild, but is that a bad thing? Godfall looks dope, but also very meh. Anno Mutationem is a game I think? Bugsnax is eww, Auto Chess is boring, The Pedestrian was there, Hood looks good, and TemTem blew our brains out.

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This week the beans couldn't really find much to talk about so Kevin started looking through his photo album and we talk about some current events. Konami is making gaming PCs apparently. We like pretzels, particularly from Auntie Anne's. Kevin has been watching Umbrella Academy which is getting a second season. Rick and Morty season 5 is getting closer every day. We talk about our favorite Con experience where Kevin met Brian Baumgartner. We try to think of what the best PS4 game was. We talk a lot about Pokemon again, we still love those spin-offs like Mystery Dungeon DX and Pokemon Ranger. We talk about food for a while, so if you're into good eats we got something for you. We educate Kevin about introverts vs. extroverts. And we talk about the TikTok ban and Ismat educates us on some gruesome things China has done to Muslims, but not in so much detail that it would warrant a trigger warning. Sorry if the last few minutes get a little serious.

This week the beans resurrected Ismat from the grave to watch the Xbox Games Showcase from July 23rd. Halo Infinite looks like it could be really good, but Kevin and Chris aren't that impressed by what's been shown. We also talk about our favorite Halo game, Halo Reach, and we talk about how confused we are by the current state of Halo following Halo 5. Fable was announced at the end of the show, but Kevin and Chris couldn't help jumping ahead to gush over the great times. Forza gets a hard skip from us. Everwild is very beautiful. If Tell Me Why is anything like Life is Strange then it'll be on our lists yesterday, even if games of that style remind us of the sad fall of Telltale Games. We're glad to see Obsidian come in strong with Outer Worlds and Grounded. And we've got a whole lot more to say about the whole show and plenty more.

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Instead of having a casual conversation the way the beans do, this week we roleplay our own stories using the app AI Dungeon. We start with a mystery surrounding our hero, Skoogle, as he awakes in a spooky hospital where he discovers an M. Night Shyamalan-esque twist. Of course, when we utter his name we can't help but go back into discussion about Avatar and The Last Airbender. The second story is a fantasy epic about Skoogle's ancestor, with another interesting twist right at the beginning. We try to do an apocalyptic adventure, but the app crashed and we had to move to the online version. While we wait for the online page to get running we talk about our critiques and reviews of The Legend of Korra. Once we get back into it we start a cyberpunk tale of future Skoogle and his struggles. We wrap up the last few minutes with conversation about the upcoming Avatar live-action show that will be coming to Netflix and our hopes for it.

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This week the beans finally got to play through SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated. Ismat and Kevin are hype for Re:Zero and Dr. Stone both getting second seasons this year and they discuss (with SPOILERS) their thoughts on season 1 for both shows. And the beans got their first request for a topic to discuss, Scary Games from a friend. Resident Evil Village has been announced and Resident Evil is one of the only "scary" game series that Chris is familiar with. As promised the beans start discussing many scary games: Outlast, Alien: Isolation, Predator: Hunting Grounds, Friday the 13th: The Game, Dead by Daylight, Until Dawn, Man of Medan, Blair Witch, The Evil Within 2. Talking about scary games based on movies leads us to talk about good scary movies: Triangle, The Circle, The Cabin in the Woods, Halloween. But of course, we couldn't forget our favorite horror game, Doki Doki Literature Club, and hopefully, Kevin will have played it by the next episode.

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The Beans haven't gotten much time to play Last of Us Part II, but we're still shocked all the same about the state of it. Since the PS5 Digital Edition is fresh on our minds we can't help but think about the commercial and conceptual failures of Google's Stadia, the OUYA, and the Steam Machine. As much as we love GameStop we know it's on its last legs, Kevin reminisces on some great times and Ismat gives so insight from the STONKS. Min Min is in Smash... anyways. After the past few expansions for Mortal Kombat 11 have dropped Kevin just gets angrier with it and goes off for a while. We also talk shop on PC gaming, Ismat throws numbers around while Kevin and Chris space out. And of course, some nostalgic PS2 boys gotta gush over SpongeBob Rehydrated and the original Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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This week the beans are gonna talk about everything we love (and strongly criticize about Pokemon). Last Monday was the internet-breaking reveal of Pokemon Smile and I guess New Pokemon Snap. This leads us into a conversation about our favorite Pokemon spin-off titles, but most importantly Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Colosseum. Of course, we didn't forget that the Isle of Armor expansion for Pokemon Sword and Shield released this week, but we're a little more critical of the 8th gen because of the business decisions made by Nintendo for Pokemon. Being so critical of current Pokemon brings us back to talking about our favorite Pokemon games, Emerald and the DS titles. We love Pokemon even if some may think that doesn't shine through in our commentary on the series, we simply remember the days of Pokemon being a titan of gaming instead of the cash cow it's become.

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