Daydreamcast

It's a soft reboot! Not really, we're just experimenting with intros. It's just the boys today, Murph and Bro. We shoot the breeze about Doom The Dark Ages, the new media outlet named Skybox, and Murph's Myst minute. Then, we talk about the crazy week of non-E3 shows (that have already happened but did not happen at the time of recording, so laugh at us for bad predictions).

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Two DDC episodes in one day! Joe joins Bro and Murph to discuss Sonic the Hedgehog!

Intro

0:33 - Welcome Joe Richards to the Pod!

Watcha Playin'

05:01 - Clair Obscura: Expedition 33 (2025)

13:48 - Haste: Broken Worlds (2025)

23:05 - Xenoblade Chronicles: X Remastered (2025)

31:34 - Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (2025)

43:01 - Monster Prom: Monster Con (2025)

53:10 - Lost Records: Bloom and Rage (2025)

1:02:30 - The Myst Minute: Myst III: Exile (2001)

The Variety Minute

1:13:50 - The Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise

Game of the Week

1:33:36 - Sonic Adventure (1998)

2:23:40 - Plugs and Farewells

HALOOOOO 3! Will and Abram join us to analyze this absolute banger of a first person shooter.

Watcha Playin'

02:19 - The Talos Principal: Reawakened (2025)

12:53 - Blue Prince (2025)

28:00 - Gnomes (2025)

25:24 - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Remake (2024)

47:58 - Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (2025)

1:03:10 - Look Outside (2025)

1:08:31 - The Myst Minute: Riven (1997); Myst Novels

Game of the Week

1:15:32 - Halo 3 (2007)

2:23:05 - Plugs and Farewells

Check out Will's new venture SKYBOX: https://skyboxcritics.com/2025/05/01/welcome-to-skybox/

Check out Abram's periodical: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/

It is time for a masochistic masterpiece. A game of controversy and friction, freelancer Jarrett Green has joined us to cover one of the most interesting RPGs of the PS2 era.

Murph talks his Myst minute, which mysteriously has no Myst games. Instead he talks about piss and drowned gods. Jarrett has played and reviewed the recent Assassin's Creed game, and Bro has been obsessed with a golden idol and some sicko itch.io dungeon crawler.

00:33 - Introducing Jarrett Green to the Pod!

Watcha Playin'

03:30 - Assassin's Creed: Shadows (2025)

13:31 - Rise of the Golden Idol (2024)

17:35 - Age of Mythology: The Immortal Pillars (2025)

25:24 - No-Skin (2025)

30:10 - The Myst Minute: Pyst (1996); Drowned God (1996)

The Variety Minute

49:00 - New Game+ and Replay Mechanics

Game of the Week

1:06:09 - Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (2002)

1:41:24 - Plugs and Farewells

Link to Jarrett's zine:

https://jarrettgreen.gumroad.com/l/gevpl

Episode 2 of season 5 takes a dark turn. We're in a parallel timeline where the nazis have conquered the globe. Charlie Walcholz is our only hope.

We talk about Pikmin, Bro talks about a visual novel he's been playing, and Murph talks about the Myst minute. The variety minute is platform fighters because Charlie is preeeeetttyyyyy good at them.

Then we talk about Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. An ambitious, complex beast.

00:32 - Introducing Charlie Wacholz to the Pod!

Watcha Playin'

06:03 - Pikmin 1 (2001)

09:18 - Techno Banter (2025)

15:27 - Stories from Sol: Gun Dog (2025)

19:00 - The Myst Minute: Myst (1993) Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel (1993), Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo (1993), The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition (1995)

The Variety Minute

33:00 - Platform Fighters

Game of the Week

58:39 - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017)

1:44:58 - Plugs and Farewells

SEASON 5!

Murph and Bro hang out with Timo to discuss one of the best modern horror games of the last ten years: Signalis.

Timo also talks Rust, Murph explores the Cyan catalog and Myst likes as his new retrospective series. Bro also covers Infinite Onslaught, an experimental new game that we will soon hear more about.

00:35 - Editor Brogan with a Message from the future

01:20 - Season 5 Premier with Timo Reinecke!

Watcha Playin'

02:26 - Rust (2018)

05:24 - Infinite Onslaught Pre-Release Impressions (Key Provided by Developer)

08:28 - Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2014)

12:45 - Webfishing (2024)

18:59 - Guilty Gear Strive (2021)

27:16 - Tyrants Realm (2025)

33:06 - The Myst Minute: The Manhole (1988), Cosmic Osmo (1989), Spelunx (1991), The Manhole: New & Enhanced (1990)

The Variety Minute

45:18- PS1 Graphics and Low-Poly Indie Games

Game of the Week

1:00:56 - Signalis (2022)

1:54:22 - Plugs and Farewells

ROCK THE DRAGON!

It's the last Daydreamcast of this year, and Bro & Murph have assembled the dragonballs to wish for a banger to end on. David Punch returns to talk about his year of reliving Dragonball across the manga and anime, and also to talk about Budokai 2. A title often overshadowed by it's sequel, and sequel series, Budokai 2 has a unique place in the annals of Dragonball history as the first game to do a campaign of Radditz to Buu, as well as unique What-If characters not seen anywhere else.

Also in dragon news, Murph gives a farewell to the Yakuza Minute as he gives thoughts on Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

0:31 - David's Back (to talk about Dragonball)!

9:31 - Dragonball Z: Sparking Zero! (2024)

22:52 - Mouthwashing (2024) (Spoiler-Free Discussion)

32:50 - Clocktower: Rewound (2024)

37:37 - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Remake (2024)

46:45 - Metal Slug Tactics (2024)

54:23 - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (2024)

Variety Minute

1:28:19 - Dragonball Games

Game of the Week

1:56:36 - Dragonball Z: Budokai 2

2:29:07 - Plugs and Farewells

Fulfilling a promise set in stone eons ago (it was last year in the Crimson Butterflies episode) Thomas Wilde and Will Borger return to talk about Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. This cult hit on the gamecube was the sophmore follow-up from the team that created Blood Omen (ignore that half the switched studios to make Soul Reaver), Eternal Darkness was the first M-Rated game published directly by Nintendo. It's a mind-bending, globe-trotting, time-bending tale of eldritch horror never since attempted. Is there a reason such horrors were left buried?

Also this episode might as well be considered a double-feature about Silent Hill 2.

00:32 - The Scream Team Reunites

Watcha Playin'

02:04 - Golden Wiiklies October League

08:03 - Fear the Spotlight (2024)

18:23 - Straftat (2024)

23:16 - The Bridge Curse 2: Extraction (2024)

30:18 - Signalis (2022)

Variety Minute

40:14 - The Great Silent Hill 2 Debate

Game of the Week

1:18:35 - Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002)

2:04:40 - Plugs and Farewells

On this prelude to All Hallow's Eve, Bro and Murph have a bad idea and decide to talk about FNAF on the internet. Specifically the trilogy of Five Nights at Freddy's 1,2, & 3.. To help them in this endeavor they recruit the Champion of Bad Ideas, Froo from This Podcast is a Bad Idea. Deep lore is shared (not about the games, but the guests) and a dissection of Freddy's appeal is attempted.

00:57 - Froo is Here!

05:20 - What kind of Gamer is Froo?

Watcha Playin

07:39 - Cookie Clicker (2013)

09:14 - Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom (2024)

15:05 - Crow Country (2024)

20:40 - Dead Rising: Deluxe Remake (2024)

25:00 - Townscaper (2021)

29:00 - Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (2024)

32:16 - Astro Bot (2024)

34:57 - Roblox: Dress to Impress (2024)

42:34 - Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (2023)

Variety Minute

51:35 - Video Game Merchandise

Game of the Week

1:15:58 - Five Nights At Freddy's (2014)

1:30:10 - Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2014)

1:40:20 - Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015)

1:52:24 - FNAF Bonus Talk

2:10:00 - Plugs and Farewells

Normally we have a Castlevania episode for October, but this year Bro and Murph wanted to give host to a very different kind of vampire, one that wavers much further from already thin line between living and dead that his kind walk. Legacy of Kain expert Brendan Hesse is summoned to talk about Soul Reaver, the immediate sequel to Blood Omen (there's also a Blood Omen 2, but don't worry about that). This cult classic of the Dreamcast is known for it's gothic mood and superb writing, but can all that sustain the number of sliding block puzzles you must do?

This episode the typical variety minute has been eschewed for extended discussion of current fighting games and how our hosts have progressed with them.

0:33 - Brendan is Back!

Watcha Playin'

2:55 - Warhammer 40K BattleSector (2021)

20:45 - UFO 50 (2024)

28:24 - The Plucky Squire (2024)

36:56 - Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (2024)

1:06:33 - Like a Dragon: Ishin! (2023)

Variety Minute: Fighting Game Shop Talk

1:30:00 - Marvel vs Capcom Collection (2024)

1:46:02 - Terry in Street Fighter 6

1:52:35 - Guilty Gear Strive (2021)

2:12:00 - Tekken 8 (2024)

Game of the Week

2:16:00 - Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (1999)

3:14:22 - Plugs and Farewells