In this episode Gino, Billy, and Pete discuss Always Sometimes Monsters and things take a dark turn. After some initial expository discussion Pete and Gino take turns venting about different issues they had with the game. Billy tries to inject some light, but there was no saving Always Sometimes Monsters from the critique. We go in-depth with every mechanic in the game: from the stamina system to the mundane mini-games to the game's cardiac tone. At least Super Mario Sunshine is up next...

In this episode Gino and Chris "Zombiepie" -REDACTED- answer some listener questions, discuss the events from Macalania to the Calm Lands, and Chris harms himself with sausages.

In this episode Billy, Gino, Pete, and Chris "Zombiepie" -REDACTED- take a bunch of listener mail. This includes a definitive list of all of the terrible games Chris has made Gino play and a lengthy role-playing exercise to get inside the mind of a die-hard Nets fan after a dismal NBA draft for the Nets. We then say goodbye to Chris and dive into The Stanley Parable. Pete and Gino take turns criticizing some of the game's shortcomings before Billy brings some more appreciation to the table.

In this episode Gino and Chris "Zombiepie" -REDACTED- answer some audience questions and concerns about their self-destructive endurance runs and their self-destructive Nekopara talk. They then transition to breakdowns of their FFV and FFVIII playthroughs. This leads to a re-evaluation of FFVIII's place on their scientific FF rankings list. They finish up by sending FFVIII out the only way they know how... with song.

In this episode Pete, Billy, and Gino discuss Dust: An Elysian Tale and burn some calories. While Gino rides a stationary bike, the crew discusses Dust's development history, it's many of close-but-not-quite-perfect systems, and it's semi-disappointing story. We also discuss the Brooklyn Nets again because how could we not.

In this episode Gino and Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED- discuss their plans for the seventh Giantbomb Community Endurance Run, field an amazing question about the New Jersey Nets, and discuss everything from the blitzball tournament at Luca to Djose temple. This is your number one podcast for carefully examining dads who are also whales and the futility of Brooklyn basketball.

This might be one of the most surreal episodes of Deep Listens we've ever put together. One of the people Gino has been playing Magic: The Gathering with for years managed to make the Top 8 of Grand Prix New Jersey this year on a Cinderella run for the ages. Luckily, he was nice enough to jump on the show and recount how he found himself sitting across from MTG Hall of Famer Ben Stark. After discussing Kyle's tournament experience, he and Gino talk about Amonkhet and all of the cards and mechanics that stand out to them. Both of them articulate the decks they're looking to play and the cards they're expecting big things from. Hope you enjoy listening to this show as much as we enjoyed making it.

In this episode Billy, Gino, and Pete are joined by Oni speedrunner and all-around delightful person Alex Zandra Van Chestein to discuss Oni. You may know Oni as the game Bungie made before Halo, but it turns out that it has a bunch of alternatingly fascinating and frustrating design decisions that make for a very odd experience. Zandra walks the crew through how she speeds through the game and a bunch of the nitty-gritty details of Oni's mechanics. The gang also discuss Oni's bare-bones and improbable story. Spoilers: it's not great!

In this episode Chris "Zombiepie" -REDACTED- and Gino begin their discussion of Final Fantasy X! We discuss the voice acting, the sphere grid, and everything up to Luca. And somehow ZP manages to die in one of the first battles in the game.

In this episode Chris "Zombiepie" -REDACTED- draws Gino into a terrible, terrible free-to-play Final Fantasy game. We discuss how bad it is and how insidious it's gameplay is. We then rate it amongst all of the FF games we've played. Do we have a new number one FF game!?