Daydreamcast

NOW WE ARE MOTIVATED! Bro misses Murph as Murph has disappeared. Bro finds a Laugh/Timo Reinecke, wandering the wastes as a Ronin.

We talk about Star Wars Dark Forces, Metal Gear Solid Collection, Mario vs Donkey Kong, Slave Zero X, Akira Toriyama's contribution to culture and primarily gaming, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (again).

The game of the week is Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. It's a sick experience full of stylish combos and deep delicious analysis.

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro with Laugh (and some visual novel recommendations)

4:00 Metal Gear Solid Collection (2023)

9:30 Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2024 remake)

16:45 Star Wars: Dark Forces (2024 rerelease)

22:00 Slave Zero X (2024)

25:30 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)

Variety Minute

33:00 A small look at Akira Toriyama's contribution to gaming and his work

Game of the Week

47:45 Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (2005)

WHAT AN EPISODE! Brendan Hesse from the Crawl, a series regular, returns to talk a whole bunch of stuff with Murph and Bro.

We talk about Shiren 6, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Arzette, Void Stranger, and Lysfanga! Then we ask ourselves the essential question: what was the first sin of gaming? The answer may surprise you!

After that we talk about a game Bro always loves to yap on about, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. The real question is, does Murph like the game?

Time stamps

0:30 Brendan is back!!!!

1:50 Shiren 6 (2024)

15:00 Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore (2024)

20:30 Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them! (2023)

26:30 Ed in Street Fighter 6

31:00 Lysfanga (2024)

36:00 Void Stranger (2023)

42:10 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)

Variety Minute

1:13:40 The Original Sin of Gaming

Game of the Week

1:35:30 Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin (2015)

You are already read,

just kidding this is the new season of the Daydreamcast. Bro and Murph catch up with a LOT of games. It's completely action packed!

Timestamps:

Whatcha Playin

2:20 - Astalon Tears of the Earth

6:30 - Desperados 3

14:00 - The Finals

19:45 - Sephonie

26:30 - Persona 3 Reload

36:00 - Tekken 8

Variety Minute

47:00 - Steam Next Fest Demos

Game of the Week

1:31:30 - Fist of the North Star Lost Paradise (2018)

Pavlos is back! Murph and Bro team up with the OG Daydreamcast host to cover all things DUCK. We talk about Pavlos's reformation, and a bunch of other games such as Rainworld and Lies of P

Timestamps:

Whatcha Playin'

8:00 Octopath Traveller (2021)

15:00 Rainworld (2017)

27:35 Dead By Daylight (2015) Chucky's DLC

33:00 Great Ace Attorney 2 (2018)

49:30 Lies of P (2023)

Variety Minute

1:14:00 Disney Games (Mostly Donald Games)

Game of the Week

1:31:00 Quackshot (1991Z)

Thomas Wilde and Will Borger join Murph and Bro for a spooktacular adventure! Thomas talks spidey, Will talks Tekken, Murph talks Mario Wonder, and Bro talks about everything in between! The variety minute is PS2 generation horror games, and the game of the week is one of the scariest games ever made!

A link to Will Borger's current Tekken 8 work:

https://www.ign.com/articles/tekken-8s-built-in-teaching-tools-are-legitimately-awesome-ign-first

A link to Thomas's Fatal Frame content and sources within:

https://articles.retroware.com/2021/10/27/butterfly-effects-the-history-of-fatal-frame/

Time stamps

Whatcha Playin

4:30 Spider-Man 2 (2023)

18:30 Tekken 8 Preview (2024)

32:10 Super Mario Brothers Wonder (2023)

Variety Minute

44:30 PS2 era horror games

Game of the Week

1:17:30 Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly (2003)

It's October, and that's Castlevania month now! We join writer Lucas White to analyze a whole bunch of games. We're talking cyberpunk (again), Jackbox, Dragon Quest 2, and a whole bunch of others. Then we do something different for the variety minute and cover the Castlevania timeline. We top it all off with an analysis of Rondo of Blood. Join us for the wild ride.

Time Stamps:

0:00 Introduction

4:30 Dragon Quest 2 (1987)

11:00 Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)

19:00 Alan Wake (2010)

26:45 Jackbox Party Pack 10 (2023)

37:15 Omega Quintet (2015)

Variety Minute

49:30 The Castlevania timeline

Game of the Week

1:14:30 Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

We have returned, with a sequel to the banger episode of Myst from last season. Will we have the same affection and praise for Riven, or is this a more complex entry than we've bargained for?

Bro talks about Ghost at Dawn, Guilty Gear Strive, and Armored Core. Murph talks Yakuzas (plural!) and En Garde!

Timestamps:

Whatcha Playin'

1:30 Ghost at Dawn (2023)

8:00 Guilty Gear Strive (2021)

15:15 En Garde! (2023)

21:00 Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (2023)

28:00 Yakuza Minute (6 and Black Panther)

Variety Minute

46:00 Dream remakes and remasters

Game of the Week

1:16:00 Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Murph returns from the lands to the north (Seattle) with tales of a wonderous gallery of games and developers (PAX West 2023). There he ran into some other like-minded friends. Brendan from The Crawl and Tucker & Abram from THE Backlog Banter. Together these 4 gamers with opinions share tales from the showfloor and impressions on the various demos they were exposed to.

(If you want additional PAX coverage from Murph, you can read his article here)

The unthinkable has happened: Bro has been able to make a dark souls episode. Largely in part to Cal just having played the game, we get a fresh perspective on the Fromsoft classic. We also go through other kinds of dungeons in the meantime, we talk about Quake 2 and Doom's 2016 rebootquel. Bro also finds the time to talk about Bombrush Cyberfunk, which is a jammin' good time.

Timestamps:

Whatcha Playin

1:00 Doom (2016)

9:30 Bramble (2023)

13:45 Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes (2019) (2020)

20:30 Bombrush Cyberfunk (2023)

26:30 Quake 2 (1997)

Variety Minute

33:00 Fromsoftware Games

Game of the Week

45:10 Dark Souls (2011)

We got a craaaazy episode for you today. Murph and Bro team up to cover all sorts of smaller titles and company buyouts. Murph complains about Zelda, Bro talks about System Shock, everything is aligned for engaging systems and fun titles.

Oh and Murph goes Pikmin CRAZY.

Time Stamps

Whatcha Playin'

1:10 - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

19:00 - System Shock Remake (2023)

26:30 - Pokemon: Infinite Fusions (2023)

35:20 - Slipstream: Blue Hour Update (2023 for the update)

39:45 - Pikmin 4 (2023)

Variety Minute

54:25 Video Game Company Buyouts and Acquisitions

Game of the Week

1:21:00 Dark Messiah: Might and Magic