Look, we didn’t mean to turn this into the Super Weeb Power Hour in Susan’s absence this week, but that’s just how things turned out. On this episode, we talk about finishing Dragon Quest XI and the art of the post-credits epilogue, wishing games reused assets and design more often like Team Yakuza does with Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise and Project Judge, and diving into spoiler territory and figuring out why Spider-Man 2018 has one of the best comic-book stories in a long, long time.

Speaking of spoilers, Dragon Quest XI spoilers are very light and largely about its narrative structure than actual story (but we do spoil the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4, in case you were worried about that) and that discussion happens around the seven minute mark. We do spoil the crap out of Spider-Man though, and that discussion happens around the 53 minute mark.

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Hosts:

Susan Arendt (@susanarendt)

Produced by Bill Segroves (@billsegroves) for Pod Studio 1.

Intro music by Andy P. Scott: https://soundcloud.com/epic1beatz