Daydreamcast

A new season means new challenges! Murph is off to a remote corner of the world researching new forms of podcasting and astral projection, Shacknews's TJ Denzer has joined the fray to talk to Bro about a variety of topics. Mostly? Mega Man.

Time stamps to come.

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It's time to portal and chortle with the Daydreamcast as we look at the iconic duology of Portals 1 and 2. Both games set the internet on fire with their space-bending puzzles and lolrandom humor that formed the bedrock of 2010s meme culture and indie game design, eventually entering the hallowed halls of those "Greatest Games of All Time" lists.

But which Portal portals superior? Is there something Murph would like us to know about Portal 2? Tune in an drop out with this double-caked up episode of the Daydreamcast!

1:15 - Murph caught COVID at PAX

Watcha Playin'

03:50 - Silksong (2025)

12:25 - Firmament (2023)

24:00 -Riven Remake (2024)

Variety Minute

42:50 - Narrative Puzzle Games

Games of the Week

57:20 - Portal (2007)

1:16:00 - Portal 2 (2011)

1:48:30 - Plugs & Farewells

Brogan has been splattered into red paste on the wall and Murph doesn't know what to do about that so he calls in the Scream Team of Will and Thomas for the annual Halloween episode. This year we're leaving behind the tank controls and fixed cameras for visceral gunplay and bullet time as we look at F.E.A.R. A meticulous FPS left behind in the seventh generation that treads the line between John Woo action and Japanese-style horror.

0:33 - The Scream Team Returns! (Minus Brogan)

Watcha Playin

2:20 - Ninja Gaiden 4 (2025)

14:30 - Painkiller (2025)

26:16 - Voices of the Void 0.8 Update (2025)

35:45 - Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection (2025)

Variety Minute

50:15 - What Will Next Year's Halloween Game Be?

Game of the Week

1:08:00 - F.E.A.R (2005)

2:01:58 - Plugs and Farewells

Halloween season on the Daydreamcast kicks off with a late night double feature of occult action titles.The Crawling Man Brendan Hesse returns to talk about Diablo 1 and Symphony of the Night. Two games about battling the forces of hell with a arsenal of magic weapons are integral to the history of Video Games. While SotN went on to name an entire genre, Diablo 1 became largely overshadowed by it's successor. Do either of these titles deserve these legacies? Or are the nomenclatures and colloquialisms of gamer culture the scariest things of all??

0:21 - Brendan's back and he's never read Goosebumps

Watcha Playin'

01:42 - Final Fantasy Tactics - Ivalice Chronicles

27:30 - Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac (2025)

39:30 - OFF (2025)

45:30 - Baby Steps (2025)

55:45 - House of Necrosis (2025)

Games of the Week

1:10:55 - Diablo (1997)

1:45:30 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

2:42:15 - Plugs and Farewells

Watcha Playin'

01:48 - Everdeep Aurora (2025)

06:33 - Many Night a Whisper (2025)

15:33 - Castle Crashers: Painter Boss Paradise (2025)

19:41 - The Myst Minute: Myst (2020)

Variety Minute

31:00 - Detective Games

Games of the Week

55:15 - Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)

1:24:24 - Plugs and Farewells

Today we're gonna get *weird*. Murph and Bro cover an obscure punk rock RPG Maker game called Hylics. This sonic tale of gibberish captures the mind with it's riffs on JRPG mechanics, stop-motion animation, and ethereal soundtrack. Bro and Murph survey it's wastelands to decode a method in it's madness, perhaps even losing themselves to it's zonked-out vibes.

Watcha Playin'

01:56 - Hyper Chess (2025)

06:45 - The Eternal Cylinder (2022)

13:44 - TMNT: Shredder's Revenge-Radical Reptiles DLC (2024)

21:00 - Project Silverfish (2025)

30:36 - Metal Garden (2025)

35:42 - The Myst Minute: realMyst: Masterpiece Edition (2014) & Obduction (2016)

Variety Minute

54:10 - "Weird" Games

Games of the Week

1:12:21 - Hylics (2015)

1:42:45 - Plugs and Farewells

It's time to feel like podcasters talking about Arkham Asylum.

Bro and Murph suit up to talk about one of the landmark games for licensed titles. The game that gave us years of Batman glazing. The game that invented the shorthands "Arkham Combat" and "Detective Vision." The game that makes you something something Batman. Does this comic book caper hold up, or do we need to memory-hole it like Three Jokers?

Watcha Playin'

01:55 - Sulfur (2024)

11:08 - Decade (2025)

20:02 - Two Point Museum (2025)

30:39 - Sagat in SF6 (2025)

Variety Minute

44:23 - Modern Metroidvanias

Games of the Week

1:01:35 - Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009)

1:44:33 - Plugs and Farewells

WHOOOO It's time for the GAUNTLET! DDC episodes are about to lay it on you thick! David joins us to discuss games (or lack thereof), Murph lays out the final numerical Myst Minute, and Brogan reminds Murph of his terrible Paper Mario takes.

Intro

1:00 - David is back on the Pod and wants recommendations

Watcha Playin'

04:50 - UFO 50 (2024)

14:01 - Hole (2024)

21:3.8 - Dead By Daylight: FNAF DLC (2025)

33:00 - Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (2025)

41:29 - The Myst Minute: Myst V: End of Ages (2005)

Variety Minute

1:03:20 - Intentional Frustration in Games

Games of the Week

1:22:50 - Super Paper Mario (2007)

1:58:54 - Plugs and Farewells

It's dangerous to go alone, so Murph and Brogan call in Brendan and HPRshredder for a retro head-to-head! 1986 introduced the world to a green tunic boy named Link and his quest for Princess Zelda, and 1987 introduced us to that exact same duo but this time from a side-scrolling perspective! Which reigns supreme: The Original Article, or the Radical Reinvention?

Intro

1:01 - Welcome HPRshredder to the Pod!

Watcha Playin'

04:57 - The Switch 2

8:30 - Mario Kart World (2025)

15:25 - Wind Waker on Switch Online (2002)

24:15 - Street Fighter II: Super Turbo (1994)

29:31 - Ao Oni: Horror of the Blueberry Onsen (2025)

40:54 - The Binding of Isaac: Repentance (2021)

49:20 - Dark Souls Remastered (2018)

58:16 - Metro Gravity (2025)

1:02:18 - The Myst Minute: Myst IV: Revelations (2004)

Games of the Week

1:25:50 - The Legend of Zelda (1986)

1:50:00 - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987)

2:28:10 - Plugs and Farewells