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Ep. 204 - Hoodie Bones, with Mathew Kumar and Ash Parrish

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Leading game industry professionals and Insert Credit Show regulars Mathew Kumar and Ash Parrish rejoin the panel for Mario voice cast announcements, Bayon3tta, and esports.

Questions this week:

  1. From Brandon Sheffield: What games have been helped or hindered by having a tertiary gameplay system? (3:00)
  2. Was the Mario movie voice cast announcement really that bad? (09:17)
  3. In a side scrolling game, how large should the player character be? (15:13)
  4. Where does Bayonetta go from here? (20:22)
  5. What is the greatest unsolvable problem in game design? (24:45)
  6. Dirtbag Tiger Tiger asks three questions and for some reason Jaffe allows it (29:45)
  7. How do you report on mods and fan projects, knowing that more attention might get them shut down? (35:02)
  8. What’s going on in the Overwatch League lately? (39:10)
  9. How concerned should we be about video game censorship in China? (48:34)
  10. For real though, what is the Mamma Mia! of video games? (54:49)

    11. LIGHTNING ROUND: Mash-up Merch (59:25)

    Wait a minute, were you really not gonna discuss this episode in the forums?!

    A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

    • Hey, Bayonetta, what is the main ingredient of guacamole??
    • Dungeon Explorer
    • Save Ribbons
    • Amnesia series
    • Fable
    • Mario casting news
    • Chris Pratt
    • Charles Martinet reading paragraphs as Mario
    • Nolan North
    • Dana Carvey
    • Martin Short
    • Only Murderers in the Building
    • Giancarlo Esposito
    • Bob Hoskins
    • John Leguizamo
    • The Lego Movie (2014)
    • Paulie Walnuts
    • Final Fight series
    • God Hand
    • Super Mario 3D World
    • Hollow Knight
    • Bayonetta
    • Fly Me To The Moon cover
    • Moon River cover
    • That’s Amore
    • Blue Moon
    • Hideki Kamiya
    • Bizarro
    • New World
    • Ultima Online
    • Emotion Engine
    • Dynasty Warriors series
    • Hyrule Warriors
    • Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
    • Persona 5 Strikers
    • Final Fantasy XV ramen ad
    • Ronald Reagan
    • SAGE
    • i’m not gonna link you to Zone animations, sorry
    • The Shanghai Dragons
    • Geguri
    • Ted Lasso
    • China limits online gaming for children to 3 hours per week
    • Chinese Overwatch teams boycott South Korean player
    • Genshin Impact censorship
    • John Cena apologizes for calling Taiwan a country
    • Devotion
    • Mamma Mia! (2008)
    • ABBA
    • ABBA Virtual London concert
    • Sonic CD
    • Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
    • Sonic Mania
    • Street Fighter The Movie The Video Game
    • Kylie Minogue

      Recommendations:

      Mathew: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Commission Reports, Native-Land.ca

      Brandon: Shuumi Land Tax, Mntu by Ushangvagush

      Ash: Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 11th, Sable

      Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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