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Listen to this week's episode to hear Robin and Willa learn about Patrick Stewart's death in real time. Also, we talk about the latest Indie World Showcase, Castlevania, and some Next Fest demos.

Timestamps:

(00:25) Welcome to AO4

(01:35) Nintendo Indie World Showcase roundup

(05:08) Shoutout to Maddy Makes Games removing Celeste and TowerFall from Xbox

(8:36) Impromptu Patrick Stewart memorial podcast

(11:21) Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

(18:49) Robin's Next Fest corner (Beyond the Plastic Wall, I Shall Name the Dead, Remote Control)

(28:17) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Avatar: Seven Havens, The Legend of Korra, Unspooled)

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This week, we played a game so good we had to release our episode about it early. After pouring one out for BioWare, we devote the rest of our time to Virtue and a Sledgehammer, a game about love and hate.

Timestamps:

(00:45) Bad news corner: BioWare edition

(09:00) The Mass Effect 4 trailer and also the hit television show Once Upon a Time

(16:10) Virtue and a Sledgehammer, god damn

(41:15) Spoilers for an important early moment until (45:46)

(50:20) Ending spoilers

(1:01:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. You Can See Everything, The Devils)

Mentioned this week:

Mass Effect Universe trailer

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This week it's all about Penguin Colony, a game that Willa and Robin like in concept and purpose more than execution. Also, Final Fantasy Resonance sure is Final Fantasy.

Timestamps:

(00:18) Robin's love of Soviet cartoons, House House being awesome

(04:41) Penguin Colony talk (spoilers dispersed throughout, it's a short game, go play it)

(39:40) Final Fantasy Resonance is fine I guess

(45:33) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Princess Jellyfish, Witchblade, InSEXts)

Mentioned this week:

Willa's Final Fantasy Resonance Review

Wildlife Photography Awards

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After a plaintive plea to support our good friend Tom Cruise, we once again dive into some great reporting by Rebekah Valentine. Then for this week’s games, Robin takes a look at two extremely idiosyncratic Early Access releases, and we briefly look forward to a couple of games about hot pixelated women by veteran indie studios.

Timestamps:

(00:30) Go see Digger or Willa WILL scream

(08:05) People need to stop making

(09:55) Things are not going double fine over there

(22:50) Nivalis Nights

(37:55) Willa’s NYCC minute

(39:00) Devil Peach Soda (Editor’s note: When I say Bubble Bobble I mean Bust-A-Move. Apologies to those gay little dinosaurs.)

(44:30) Let Rose Belmont kiss Joan of Arc or else

(47:10) Record of Dorathia seems neat

(49:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Diplomat, The Queer Film Festival)

Mentioned this week:

Inside The Failed Fight To Unionize One Of Gaming’s Most Idealized Studios

Robin's Nivalis Nights stream

Record of Dorathia

NIÑXS

Bearcave

The thing we’re laughing at in the tag

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Robin doesn't know who The Savannah Bananas are. Anyway, Willa doesn't find Scotland scary in Silent Hill and thinks Ace Combat 8 needs to be gayer. Meanwhile, Robin gets sewing in Dressmaker.

Timestamps:

(00:44) Talking recent bad news (CW: sexual violence)

(08:06) Zoe goes to the Metaverse

(10:29) Willa calming vacation simulator; or, Silent Hill: Townfall

(15:00) Dressmaker

(28:20) More like Ace Combat Great

(36:19) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Dancing with the Stars, Friends at the Table: Perpetua, crocheting)

Things Mentioned:

Go support Ashley Bardhan

Reb Valentine rounding up cool Dressmaker creations

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After a short news segment on layoffs we could have had basically any week this year, Willa continues to explain why Control Resonant failed to resonate. Then Robin relives the worst parts of her barista days in Roman Sands RE:BUILD, and Willa contends with vampires and the even more monstrous generative AI use in Blood of a Dawnwalker.

Timestamps:

(01:00) More Xbox layoffs pt. 10,000

(05:11) Returning to Control Resonant corner (spoilers for Control Resonant and, somehow, Final Fantasy IV)

(27:05) Customer Service Hell Simulator 2026 (Roman Sands RE:BUILD)

(40:00) The Blood of the Dawnwalker

(49:45) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Have you heard of Elden Ring?, Aack Cast!, The Love Hypothesis)

Mentioned this week:

Willa's Control Resonant review

The Blood of Dawnwalker Studio Uses AI

Annie and Robin’s walking tour of Leyndell Royal Capital

Aack Cast!

An Elven Alliance Is Protecting Iceland’s Natural Wonders

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This week, Willa and Robin talk about two big releases: Wolverine and Control Resonant. You will be shocked to hear which one they have more nice things to say about. Then it is on to vampires in Nighthawks, collected criticism, and Cold Stone Creamery.

Timestamps:

(00:45) Wolverine first impressions

(19:10) Control Resonant corner

(33:57) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Nighthawks, A Control Resonant anecdote, Seasons of Discontent by Robert Brustein )

Things Mentioned:

Willa's Control Resonant review

The article Robin mentioned about the consultant being weird about female protagonists

Germinate blog

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This week, Nintendo tests our patience with two Directs that should have been one email. 

Timestamps:

(01:00) At least the music was good

(12:46) Another fucking Direct 

(34:15) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Furious, Isle of Reveries, the idea of Drakengard 3)

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This week Robin and Willa play catch up with the many showcases that happened when we took a week off. That means GTA VI, Gamescom (but mostly the Witcher), and State of Play. Also, some Control talk and our usual antics.

Timestamps:

(00:30) And now, the weather

(01:16) GTA VI lets you hold hands 10/10 

(05:58) Gamescom Opening Night Live was pretty boring but the Witcher is awesome 

(15:55) State of Play 

(34:39) Somehow Lollipop Chainsaw returned

(36:01) Zoe takes Control (2019)

(39:14) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Entropy, Grey's Anatomy,  Being married)

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Tune in to hear two hot women with problems talk about two games with hot women and problems.

Timestamps:

(02:50) Plague Tale 3: Resonance: A Plague Tale Game: Legacy

(28:10) Fields of Mistria

(45:47) South of Midnight and making combat optional

(48:55) A little more Fields of Mistria

(51:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Ghost in the Shell check-in, Spider-Man comma The Amazing)

Mentioned this week: 

Jay Castello’s Fields of Mistria review

Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox

Boycott Microsoft's Xbox

just one guy, just one spider-man. or woMn, we dunno. fOR suRE

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