On our first episode recorded since 2017, we gather to discuss Snowrunner and its predecessors, off-roading games about driving trucks through miserably gorgeous terrain.

• Check out the Story Break episode proposing a movie based on Snowrunner! Naturally, it's a Tarkovsky flick.

It's a trash heap of a game of things to collect today as we examine Fallout 4 and inevitably compare it to 3.

Join Craig and Nate live and raw around an iPhone as they lavish Virginia with criticism and praise both immediately after finishing it. There will be fun times and sad times as they each respond with their most visceral, unprocessed responses to a fresh playthrough of Variable State's indie darling Virginia. (Editor's note: My (Nate's) opinions are very dumb in this episode. Oh, to be 5 years younger...)

Conclude Nathan Drake's (and one arc of Emotive Pixels') journeys here with a long, rambley discussion of the best in the series, deserving a lower score than Uncharted 2.

We travel to Indigenous Alaska with the traditional Iñupiaq tale "Kunuuksaayuka", a co-op platformer juxtaposed against micro-documentaries.

This episode of Emotive Pixels sees us, like so many others in the doldrums of 2020+, return to things left unfinished in our past. In this fine week from years past, we discuss Pauly favorite game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, from 2010. Many things are said, it's unclear why Nate was here, and Craig loves God of War.

Pauly leads the show this week with some discussions into the mechanics of this game, how it relates to other Castlevanias, and a very impressive award he bestows upon the game. Will brings interesting questions like the inspirations bordering on homages peppered throughout this game from design doc to architecture.

Relevant links!

• From "Irritable Heart" to "Shellshock": How Post-traumatic Stress Became a Disease (via Gizmodo)

The theme this week is Linker, by our very own Pauly!