This week Willa and Robin run through all the announcements at The Game Awards, including: Tomb Raider for the straights, DILF Leon, and Control with a man. Boooooo. Also, more Old Skies talk because it's just that good!

Timestamps:

(00:12) Zoe probably wants to stab Willa (medically)

(02:05)  A lot of time spent on Game Awards reveals  

(45:00) Less time on Day of the Devs and Wholesome Snack

(51:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Cheese Ball, Octopath Traveler 0, Old Skies)

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Everything announced at The Game Awards

Everything announced at Day of the Devs

Everything announced at Wholesome Snack

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For what ended up being a shorter episode this week, Willa has returned to the land of chocobos and Robin has returned to the land of evil chocobos. Plus, skateboards, mechs, catgirl card games, and famous dead men.

Timestamps:

(00:15) Shoutout to Finland

(01:45) Why are we not playing Final Fantasy 11 right now?

(08:20) Skate Story

(12:30) Outward 2: A game that hates you

(18:40) Detective Instinct colon Farewell comma My Beloved

(22:20) Mirage Miracle Quest and Queen’s Domain demos

(25:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Tom Stoppard, Phantom Brigade)

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Sharon Begley on James Watson

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This week we are talking gays in space (Metroid Prime 4) and gays in time (more Old Skies) and then Willa and Robin pick what games to exchange for the end of year season because the Girlies will be here before you know it!

Timestamps:

(02:00) Too much talk about Willa's Thanksgiving movie watching

(07:10) Metroid Prime 4

(31:04) HORSES not "Horses"

(38:16) More Old Skies (also briefly Birdcage and Possessors)

(49:14) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Matrix, Letters From Liselotte, Wicked and other Oz related media)

(55:00) End of year housekeeping

Mentioned this week:

Robin's Metroid Prime 4 review

Robin on HORSES

Letters From Liselotte

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This week, we start with hypothetically cool new hardware and Metroid Prime’s hot new feature: mansplaining. Then we move onto games we’ve played, focusing on anticipated talking-to-hot-women simulator Demonschool (unless it gets delayed again in the six hours before this episode posts).

Timestamps:

(01:45) The Girl Mode News Desk: Steam Machines

(15:50) Note: Myles MacKenzie died on the way back to his home planet 

(30:00) Where are the Metroid Prime-likes?

(36:20) Videoverse

(47:00) Demonschool

(1:09:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Old Skies, more Atelier Ryza)

Mentioned this week:

VGC’s Andy Robinson on Metroid Prime 4

Maddy Myers on Super Metroid

Alexa Ray Corriea’s “nag line discourse” post

Robin on Videoverse and Demonschool 

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Episode 148 - It's terrible, I could not recommend it more

This one's got everything you love: Dunkalatte talk, Willa's neighbors doing construction in the middle of a recording, Robin playing a game where you are a little mouse, but the main event is – of course – Willa going on an extended rant about a game she hates that most people love.

Timestamps:

(00:14) Robin joins the Dunkalatte cult  

(06:03) Blake Manor update and your reminder Lorelei and the Laser Eyes rocks

(09:53) Winter Burrow 

(15:32 ) 20+ minutes of Willa ranting about Dispatch

(23:12) Dispatch spoilers start

(24:23) Dispatch spoilers end

(38:18) Ambrosia Sky

(48:55) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Blue Moon, stealing umbrellas, A Pizza Delivery, Verho, Atelier Ryza  )

Mentioned this week:

Alyssa Mercante on The Game A wards Future Class

Every 10/10 Game Informer has given

Willa's Dispatch thread on Bluesky

Gio on Dispatch at Polygon  

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It’s the week after Halloween and we’re finally talking about horror games. After an extended bullshit session to start, we work our way around to mousegirl soulslikes, talking to ghosts with your crush, trick or treating, finding yourself on Bajor, and being the nosiest bitches at the seance.

Timestamps:

(00:15) A bunch of nonsense

(04:10) Anti-recommendation for Hinako Note

(07:30) Gamer news: Simogo

(09:30) Mouseward: A game for Robin

(12:05) Fear the Spotlight

(18:10) The Seance of Blake Manor

(48:45) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival, The O.C.)

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Robin on The Seance of Blake Manor

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This week it’s a lot of slop talk. Remakes are slop. Cozy games are slop. Law & Order Executive Producer Dick Wolf is slop. Everything is slop. We also check in on Hades 2 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.

Timestamps:

(00:25) It’s all downhill from here

(02:27) More Hades 2

(06:35) Halo on PlayStation and why remakes suck

(18:52) Dick Wolf presents AI cop slop

(21:20) Cozy games discourse

(32:23) Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

(46:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Dinner parties, the bad Earthsea TV show, weird shit in your neighborhood, the library, Six Seasons cookbook)

Mentioned this week:

Moises Taveras on game remakes

Jason Schreier on Xbox Layoffs

Polygon interviews Wolf Games

A wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower

You Should Play Bad Games

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Jesus, it’s Next Fest again? Guess it’s time to talk about some demos.

Timestamps:

(00:20) Disrespecting Baja Blast

(2:20) Next Fest

(3:40) Opus Prism Peak

(8:15) Skate Story

(12:00) Sleep Awake

(16:15) Reanimal

(22:00) Constance

(25:00) Winter Burrow

(28:20) Ambrosia Sky

(32:40) Verho: Curse of Faces

(35:20) The Legend of Khiimori

(40:45) Mosaic of the Strange

(42:50) Dungeon Bodega Simulator

(46:30) Moonsigil Atlas

(49:20) Birdcage

(53:45) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Orient Express, and Neuromancer)

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Ashley Bardhan on Sleep Awake

Ashley Bardhan (again) on Fatal Frame 2

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Episode 144 - The Soon To Be Mrs. Robin (Your Name Here)

Bad news, there is barely any beverage talk in this one. Good news, Robin is open to her hand in marriage being bought. Oh, we also spend a lot of time talking about the importance in having conviction in critical thinking and why Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is great

Timestamps:

(01:06) Learning about our audience

(3:36) Critic corner

(22:00) Robin’s spooky games (Vampire’s Best Friend, Sender)

(28:38) Play Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

(35:50) Carimara

(43:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. A Star Brighter Than The Sun, Fabula Ultima)

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Pauline Kael’s Raiders of the Lost Ark review

Robin on Carimara

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This week, we’re still talking a bit about Hades II, sandwiched between slime farms, psychic babies, Tetris-likes, and Willa’s beverage-based spinoff podcast.

Timestamps:

(00:40) More coffee talk

(5:40) Slime Rancher 2

(09:35) Hades 2 (mid-to-endgame spoilers start at 15:20)

(18:30) Goodnight Universe 

(26:40) Falling Block Jam 

(31:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Bed and Breakfast for Spirits, Baquiné, Dreams in Nightmares)

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