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Stranded, Jeff-less, and lost in the dungeons of Fear and Hunger, Braden, ZP and Borgmaster venture downward to discuss the controversial indie RPG, including thoughts about marriage, violence, and [CONTENT WARNING]. I apologize in advance for this one; it's been like 10 years since I've used audio editing software. Hopefully nothing is broken becuase I'm in charge of editing this thing from now on.

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In this episode Gino, Pete, Em, and Braden "ArbitraryWater" -REDACTED- discuss Shadow The Hedgehog! We cover the game's unworkable pace, bizzare plot structure, and poor level design. We also spend a lot of time talking about this game's sheer 2005 energy. There is so much edge here. Nothing but edge as far as the eye can see 

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In this episode Gino, Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED-, and Jeff discuss Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. We discuss the game's good accessibility options, great music, and terrible story. If you make a game incredibly accessible but don't bother to write a compelling story or design compelling combat, does the accessibility matter? We wrap up by wranking Mystic Quest on our Ranking of Fantasies!

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In this episode Gino, Pete, and Em discuss Moon hunters! We cover the game's easy difficulty, unfortunate storytelling, and misused rogue-like design. This is a game that could have been good, but a number of poor design decisions dragged it down.

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In this episode Gino, Pete, Em, Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED-, Jeff Rud, and Braden "ArbitraryWater" -REDACTED- debate the games we played this year for our annual Trenchies! The categories this year are: Game of the Year 2023, Best Comedy, Best Horror, Best Drama, Best Action, Best Adventure, Best Puzzler, Best Character, Worst Character, Best Soundtrack, Prettiest Game, Best Performance/Voice Acting, Best Mechanic, Biggest Disrespect of the Player's Time, Best Twist, Worst Game of Our Year 2021, Worst Story or Written Dialog, Biggest Indictment of Capitalism, Most Replayable Classic, Best Non-Game, John Paul Sartre Memorial Award for Game That Best Expresses the Ultimate Futility of the Human Condition, Gino's Platypus Award for Game That Should Not Be, ZP's "Help I'm Trapped in Sysiphean Torment" Award, Em's Sheeple Award: Most Wildly Overstated/Overrated,

In this episode Gino, Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED-, and Braden "ArbitraryWater" -REDACTED- discuss the games they streamed throughout the year! We each give out some awards to the roguelike deckbuilders, adventure games, and horror games that made up the bulk of our online presense this year!

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In this episode Gino, Pete, and Em discuss Sea of Stars from the 5th party member to the end of the game! We talk about the game's several twists, true ending, and game juice.

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Those who Dwell in the Deep End are joined by Bad Game Hall of Fame proprietor Cassidy to discuss Hoshi wo Miru Hito, one of the most infamous Famicom titles. Perhaps we have dug too deeply.

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No, not that one.

Jeff, Braden, and Chris ride out to meet D.W. Bradley's polygon-based riff on his previous  Wizardry work. Is this an approachable dungeon crawler, or is this the sort of thing that  would wind up getting stealth released on GOG years later for $6? And just where does this  rank on the OTDE Big List? 

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In this episode Gino, Pete, and Em discuss Sea of Stars from the beginning of the game to the introduction of the 5th party member! We talk about the game's awesome music, twist on classic JRPG combat, and interesting/uninteresting party members.

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