Game in Hand

By Dan DaSilva

The Podcast for listeners who enjoy gaming news, reviews, handhelds, and flavor of the month topics. Hosted by a Canadian gamer named Dan.

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August 30, 2024 Once Human - Survivalcraft meets Serverstabilitycraft
Rejoyce, summer release slump is over!

I am having a fairly decent time with this game. It probably is worth more than the zero dollars I've spent on it, but it's cosmetics are also next to nothing in terms of appeal. Novice mode is the definitive casual way to play. Anyone else who is seeking even half a challenge should avoid novice servers.

Wukong is out and I am definitely not a day 1 reviewer. I think it does a lot right and definitely will get to it when time permits. Judging from the other souls like games, it's going to be a steam sale target for sure.

Starwars outlaws is out and as much as I am a fan of Massive Entertainment's games, they always seem to be above generic garbage that gets pumped out, initial reviews and performance results leave a bit to be desired. Hopefully it's not a "OH WE DEFINITELY ARE WORKING ON THIS, HERE IS A 5 YEAR ROADMAP FOR A GAME WE'RE GOING TO NOW STOP TALKING ABOUT AND ABANDON IN 9 MONTHS". Looking at you EA and WB.

But at least we're ramping into the period known as back to school depression. New games to be had, many still coming down the pipeline.
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August 17, 2024 Summer of Slowdown 2024 - Games Roulette
Serves us right for having such a strong new game library last year. Now we are stuck with a lack of (positive) new game news. Nothing worse than lackluster news either. I guess we can just sit around and wait for announcements to save the dates to hear about game release date announcements.... Boourns Dragon Age. Boourns.
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26min
August 11, 2024 Cryptmaster - Hangman RPG
A change of pace from a summer of mind numbing shooters, F2P mediocrity, metroidvania like mazes, and card swiping waifu phone games. While I do think parts of the game do get a bit repetitive in terms of combat, it would be hard to say I didn't have to go into every interaction with something clever up my sleeve. The game isn't a chore to finish as the characters are lively, the comedic dialogue and crass responses fit the game well, and the puzzles you solve offer a decent breadth and depth to what could have been a very narrow focused game.
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22min
July 14, 2024 Hades 2 - Must Buy More Hades
Supergiant is back again with early access to a solid game. It does lose a bit of its originality from the original Hades but there is multiple modes and challenges to keep you satisfied with the price tag.
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43min
July 08, 2024 Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
Definitely a premium remaster of the beloved original but I am praying for a 60fps mode with the Switch 2 or something. The highly touted partner wheel time saving vs hitting a button on the dpad is lessened by inputs that are just ignored when the game isn't quite ready yet to let you dismiss text boxes, menus, tactics, etc.
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21min
June 10, 2024 Xbox Showcase Recap and More
Only a lack of sleep and children not sleeping can interrupt game time, so let's take advantage of the moment to recap some of the most anticipated xbox and PC games, including hints by Phil Spencer regarding an xbox handheld.
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24min
May 27, 2024 Top 10 Favorite Game Boy games (GB, GBC, GBA)
I started history/fact checking myself to see the power difference between the NES and the nintendo handhelds, and it's crazy how everything progressed. Hand held episode with a smile. I was considering putting FFTA on my GBA miss games the more I remember those stupid rules, but FFT gets a pass.
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27min
May 06, 2024 Top 10 Favorite NES and SNES games
Hard to not go off the deep end sometimes where nostalgia probably interferes with games ranking, objectively. Still, this wasn't just me playing it safe, it's what drives my brain towards playing these titles on retro handhelds on a regular basis. Or at least when I need a dose of childhood. Right next to metamucil and big bowl of bran. I know exactly why people go to extreme ends to fulfill childhood gaming nostalgia once I had 4 game cube controllers when they brought smash to the Wii U and again when I bought a snes classic. A 1st party retro nintendo controllers was like a brain rub after not holding them for a while.
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36min
April 27, 2024 Unicorn Overlord Review
Vanillaware has put out another stellar title. Gone are the grid lines and take turns mechanics that held units and boredom in place. While the story is nothing spectacular it certainly wasn't sitting on my nerves or poorly written at any point. Tactical difficulty was an okay challenge right under gear cataloging. Easy to say by the end of the game you need to become really familiar with what items do otherwise, you're in for a scroll.

Double excited to see more about Metaphor: Refantazio when it launches in October.
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34min
April 09, 2024 South Park Snow Day - Regression of Quality
It seems South Park might be best experienced in the paper on 3D world. I know they likely didn't want a blockbuster budget game and in interviews Matt Stone mentioned Trey Parker likes RPGs and D&D, and Stone likes... mindless button mashers. I won't say that's the reason the game sucks but it's a complete deviation from previous quality. It's clunky, it's slow, it's repetitive, and I felt a real lack of compulsion to try anything new when I was face rolling through the game with the first thing I tried. It goes beyond being a "casual" game and all I can call it is lacking. Lacking in content, lacking in fulfilling end game. But obviously not lacking in Day 0 announced 6 DLC packs. It's tough not to just blatantly say I miss Obsidian's Stick of Truth and even Ubisoft Osaka, Montreal, uh Kathmandu? Greece? South Pole? Fractured But Whole. And division games actually. I hope Ubisoft gets well soon if this was South Park's break up game. But it feels like THQ is a bad influence ever since they went bankrupt while making the 1st game.

I messed up on the sound settings on this one so apologies that I dropped XXXL bass on this one. I marginally adjusted for last episode in my recording settings and I lack the talent to fix it in post edits without it sounding like calling from a phone booth.
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43min

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The podcast currently has 66 episodes available.