Chamberlain and Chance

Welcome to the Zatoichi podcast! Chance is now at least half way through his quest of watching every single Zatoichi movie and he still loves them. Chamberlain is still on his quest to play nothing but games no one has heard of, this time uncovering an absolute gem in Crypt Custodian. And Alex has completed the impossible quest of finishing a co-op run of Baldur's Gate 3 with his wife AND remaining married at the end.

Spoilers: no one bought a Switch 2, because why bother, and no one played Elden Ring Nighteign for similar reasons. Stands must be taken. Sometimes.

Chamberlain and Chance have finished Doom The Dark Age. Chance's opinion has softened. Yes, it is too easy but it was fun for the entire time. Chamberlain wants to work for his demon kills and was generally nonplussed, but hey, it was on Game Pass. Also this week, Alex revisits Red Dead Redemption 2 on his new PC and has a much better time with it that he did seven years ago.

Id has once again attempted to reinvent the wheel with Doom The Dark Age instead of just making a sequel to Doom 2016. Neither Chamberlain nor Chance are thrilled with it, but at least Chance is happy with the Star Wars Outlaws DLC and Chamberlain got a nice artsy 2D platformer in Neva. And Alex has done the impossible and kept his marriage whole through most of a co-op playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3.

Chamberlain and Alex both love and have pretty much finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Yes, it can be a bit on the difficult side at times, but turn based RPGs are so scarce that an excellent one coming out of nowhere is to be celebrated. Celebrated with lots and lots of spoilers! Chance did not like it, because he does not like turn based RPGs, and instead watched a whole bunch of movies while screwing up his Overwatch placement matches.

Truly, our cups runneth over. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 has come out to universal critical acclaim. Alex agrees, and contrary to his usual MO, Chamberlain also has qualified nice things to say, qualified because his heart still belongs to South of Midnight. Alex has also unlocked the 'wife plays games with me' achievement in multi-player Baldur's Gate 3. And Chance has finally taken a break from Assassin's Creed Shadows for the one cause that is possibly more noble than running around feudal Japan, stabbing dudes: killing nazis!

Chance has tried to leave feudal Japan, unsuccessfully. He is on playthrough two of Assassin's Creed Shadows after revisiting Ghost of Tsushima just long enough to see that it doesn't look as good. Chamberlain cannot believe that the same people who made We Happy Few just release South of Midnight, a game he loves in spite of its flaws. And Alex sticks by his strange statement that Blue Prince is an excellent puzzle game and not just something that put Chamberlain to sleep.

The Switch 2 has a release date and a price, sooner and more expensive than most people expected. There is probably an "Alex was right" moment in here somewhere. Also this week, Chance continues to make Chamberlain feel bad for giving up on Assassin's Creed Shadows so quickly. Alex tries and fails to just play a little bit of Elden Ring. And Chamberlain has experience the joys and tragedies of a fine British apocalypse in Atomfall.

Opinions on Assassin's Creed Shadows differ wildly this week. One of us declares it the best game in the series and the other dropped it after five hours. The third person was Alex, who dodged the entire argument by continuing on with Kingdom Come Deliverance II. Also this week: Iron Meat, helicoptering and figuring out who gets the dog after the breakup, Chamberlain or Ubisoft.

Chance continues on his Kingdom Come Deliverance II missionary venture, finally drawing Alex into its web. Now he too is brewing potions, forging weapons, failing speech checks, and he swears that he is having a good time doing it. Assassin's Creed Shadows has briefly stolen Chance's attention, but who knows for how long. And Chamberlain continues to play game that no one else has even heard of. This week: Valfaris Mecha Therion. That is not a typo.

Chance continues to live in Kingdom Come Deliverance II, molding his Henry into the sneakiest, sexiest, deadliest, most well spoken bloke that world has every seen. If he isn't king by the time he is done something is wrong. Chamberlain and Alex have slid into indies and AA titles. Chamberlain finds reasons to overlook Unknown 9's obvious flaws while Alex types his time way to success in Cryptmaster and fills the rest of his days with Brotato.