Everything that was bad last week is even worse this week. Itch has followed Steam in delisting a ton of games for either including offensive sexual content or just gay people. Who can even tell the difference? We follow that exasperating conversation with what we’ve been playing this week, mostly consisting of games about a whole bunch of toxic lesbians.

Timestamps:

(01:00) Everything got worse

(18:35) Toxic Yuri VN Jam

(29:10) The Great Villainess

(33:15) Metal Garden

(36:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Young Justice, The Raven Tower)

Mentioned this week:

Two articles from Ana Valens on game censorship

Fans need to understand Link and Zelda aren’t a couple

Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny

Developers Are Protesting As Adult Game Bans Come To Indie Storefront Itch.io

Steam Banning Some Adult Games Is A Big Deal Even If You Don’t Play Them

Stop Payment Processors from censorship!

Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers

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Episode 133 - The Cultural Vandalism Corner

This week Robin and Willa talk about the horrors of horse girl racing, the horrors of pulp point-and-click adventure The Drifter, the horrors of regulating games, and the beauty of the New York Mets baby, let's go Mets, it's all about the Mets!

Timestamps:

(00:13) Sponsored by TK water brand 

(04:24) Umamusume: and they were roomates

(12:44) The Drifter: John Carpenter does point-and-click

(23:14) Wheels of Aurelia and Apple sucking as usual

(28:19) Valve cracks down on porn for stupid reasons. TRIGGER WARNING: sexault assault and rape mentioned

(34:04) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls, Leviathan)

Mentioned this week:

Robin on The Drifter

Maddy Myers on The Drifter

Game Developer on Wheels of Aurelia

RPS on Valve’s porn crackdown

No Escape on Valve’s porn crackdown

Ana Valens on Valve's porn crackdown

And finally Robin on Valve's porn crackdown

Women are reclaiming their place in baseball

The girl who struck out Babe Ruth

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We took last week off from recording and, what do you know, we ended up playing a lot of games in the meantime. This time, we’re talking about girls who are horses, cats who are girls, and card games that are magic. This week also marks Press Start joining The Worst Garbage network so go check them out!!

Timestamps:

(00:25) We’ve gone to the audience

(03:10) Peak - It’s still good

(10:00) P5X - A Persona game with bad politics? Who would have thought

(19:25) Occlude - What if solitaire was fun

(26:45) Umamusume - The highs and lows of high school horse girl racing

(41:35) Everdeep Aurora - She’s a cat who’s a girl, not a cat girl

(46:30) Mass Effect - The best Mass Effect

(57:50) Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream - What if Fagin was a hot lady and not antisemitic

(1:08:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Dan Da Dan, Wildermyth Lays Bare the False Promises of AI Storytelling, Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE)

Mentioned this week:

Not Every Co-Op Game is “Friendslop”

No Phone Summer: It’s The Summer of the Retro Handheld

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There has not been a lot of news for us to discourse about lately, so we are doing what every good content creator does for engagement: make a bad list. Come for Willa and Robin suffering through a task of their own making as they choose the best games of the 21st century, stay for updates on what Willa’s neighbor is doing with their backyard. 

Timestamps:

(00:13) Judging our neighbors

(04:09) The best games of the 21st century (objectively)

(35:27) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Loco Motive, Peak)

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We’re coming to you live from the heat dome this week, so assume anything wrong with this episode is due to our brains poaching in our skulls. In the meantime, we’ve been playing fishing games and porn games and old games and racing games and all kinds of other games and we’re here to talk about them in no particular order. 

Timestamps:

(00:20) Welcome to the heat dome

(02:50) Sinker Sound

(17:10) L8R SK8R

(22:34) Mario Kart 8

(25:30) Aeromachina

(31:00) Signum Malum

(34:35) PSP Corner

(41:20) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

(44:40) Ambrosia Sky

(46:25) Good Morning Drifter

(48:20) Squeakross: Home Squeak Home

(52:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Date Everything claims to be a dating sim, but it doesn't love or understand its own genre, good writers are perverts, leaving the party, F*ck it, Let's Make a Website!)

Mentioned this week:

Bloomed Wings

Mario Kart World Review: ALMOST the Best Mario Kart

Baseball Explained by an Anime Girl

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This week, we've played an unconscionable number of demos, so we run through a whole bunch of the ones we mostly liked at Steam Next Fest and the Tribeca Festival. Then, Willa interviews Tribeca Games vice president Casey Baltes with a tin can inside a submarine apparently and Robin tries her hardest to make it listenable.

Timestamps:

(00:20) Just a whole bunch of nothing

(04:35) Dice Gambit

(10:30) Cast and Chill

(14:00) Morse

(18:15) Prison of Husks

(28:30) MotionRec

(33:20) Coffee Talk Tokyo

(35:30) Project Arrow

(37:15) KuloNiku: Bowl Up!

(41:10) Dispatch

(47:15) MIO: Memories in Orbit

(55:45) Possessor(s)

(1:00:55) Absolum

(1:04:46) Death Howl

(1:09:00) Cairn

(1:13:10) Sleep Awake

(1:15:40) Take Us North

(1:22:35) Mixtape

(1:29:30) Casey Baltes Interview

(1:55:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a very good video about Dark Souls 2)

Mentioned this week:

Prison Of Husks Feels Like Playing A Dream About Dark Souls

I'm Bad at Video Games, So I Played Dark Souls 2

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The worst part of the year was even worse this year. We slogged through Summer Game Fest and a few showcases that didn’t suck and now we’re here to talk about what we saw there and why everyone’s so mad.

CW: Discussions of disordered eating in Consume Me from 52:30 to 57:05

Timestamps:

(00:20) Our mortal enemy, summer

(01:30) State of Play had a few good games

(13:15) Ciri Showcase and Unearthed Treasure Room

(17:30) SGF was even worse than it always is

(33:00) Mina the Hollower is good as hell

(38:55) Remembering that good video games exist at Day of the Devs

(52:30) CW: Eating disorders Consume Me is unbelievably good

(57:05) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters and another cinematic masterpiece)

(1:04:30) Some announcements!

Mentioned this week:

The Unearthed Treasure Room

Consume Me Turns Gaming’s Obsession With Stats Into A Trap For Players

You can now give us money if you really want to

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We have a handful of games to talk about this week, including an excellent new farming game, a so-so story from the creator of Katamari Damacy, and a turn-based RPG about death (no, not that one).

Timestamps:

(00:30) Corndog update

(04:10) Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is the second coming of Harvestella

(24:50) To a T is cute I guess

(40:55) Galactic Glitch is simple fun

(44:10) Danchi Days is delightful and weird

(50:25) The Time I Have Left now lives rent-free in Robin's brain

(57:15) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Hacks, You’re Wrong About - Coyotes! and Lesbian Seagulls)

Mentioned this week:

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma Review: A Bountiful Blend of Life Sim and RPG

To a T Feels Like A Saturday Morning Cartoon’s Rough First Season

Gio’s good post

The Quest To Revive A Summer Festival Is Off To A Strong Start In Danchi Days

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This week, Robin and Willa have a conversation no one will disagree with about a game everyone is being reasonable about. We talk through why Clair Obscur, the FRPG of the year, didn’t live up to the hype for either of us, and inevitably detour into why criticism is good and cool and doesn’t have to make you a killjoy.

Timestamps:

(00:30) Setting le tableau (or, don’t yell at us about Clair Obscur)

(03:40) Prologue: A Very Somber State Fair

(35:00) Act 1: Lost Syndrome

(45:45) Act 2: We Don’t Care That [REDACTED] [REDACTED]s

(53:00) Act 3: Every Frame A Painting

(1:04:50) Epilogue: Blaming Women

(1:18:18) Inspirations and comparisons

(1:29:40) Why everyone is being so weird about this game/why criticism isn’t a dirty word

(1:42:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Gundam GQuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuX, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown)

Mentioned this week:

The best part of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is it explains nothing

Close Reading Is For Everyone

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s style is its substance

I Want to Be Potboy! (with Robin and Tori!) - Into the Aether

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CW: Brief reference to suicide between (01:05:00) and (01:05:45)

This week, Robin and Willa dive into the work of Selkie Harbour, developer of the recent (and excellent) Many Nights a Whisper. We get into the interesting parallels and outliers among the studio’s catalog and come away more excited about ice skating than we ever thought possible. We also completely spoil all of these very short games, so consider taking a couple hours to play through all of them if you don’t want to hear about them first!

Also check out Robin's recent appearance on Into the Aether, where she talks indie deckbuilders and Expedition 33 with Stephen and Press Start's Tori!

Timestamps:

(01:20) X-Men belongs to the dolls

(02:45) A walking tour of Selkie Harbour’s itch page

(6:15) A Message for the Stone King

(12:15) The Well

(19:30) Everything You Didn’t Get To Do

(31:50) Sunset Shift

(40:20) I.C.A. Calendar Photoshoot 2023 (see Robin's calendar here)

(46:10) Rêverie

(51:30) The Anglerfish Project

(58:35) Wrapping up Selkie Harbour

(1:00:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Easy Delivery Co., Apocalypse Hotel, a great piece on Superhot VR, Blue Prince)

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