We’re easing into the new year, first by pretty much just reprising an article we already wrote about our most anticipated games of 2024. Then, we discuss how our “gamer resolutions” for 2023 went and talk about what we want to change in the coming year. Finally, we revisit Willa and Zoe’s predictions for 2023 in gaming and see how they both did!

Timestamps

(01:40) Our most anticipated games of 2024

(14:45) Punctuation Corner

(27:15) Gamer resolutions check-in

(51:30) Willa v. Zoe, Judge Robin presiding

(01:02:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?

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Willa and Robin's most anticipated games

Willa talks to Yoko Taro and Doug Bowser

Robin really, really likes Sayonara Wild Hearts

The episode of Press Start we talk about

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The moment you’ve been waiting for all year is here: it’s the second annual Girl Mode Awards! Tune in to gaming’s most illustrious awards show as we crown the winner of this year’s Most Exhausting Discourse, the Best Game That’s Just Mid, the coveted Most Realistic Trees, and more incredibly important honors.

This episode also caps off 2023 for Girl Mode, so we just want to say thank you to everyone for spending the year with us! We appreciate you very much. Yes, even you.

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(00:20) The Girlies!

(01:34:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this year?

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We’ve spent the past few weeks playing some of the year’s most fascinating games, and now we’re making it your problem! Our annual game exchange is now officially annual because we’ve done it twice. This year, we played Slay the Princess and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, two games about choice, fate, and women with the power to destroy the universe. 

Heads up: We spoil the hell out of both games, and while we don’t talk in detail about their heavier themes, both games get pretty fucking dark. Please check out the content warnings for Slay the Princess and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood before playing them!

Timestamps

(00:20) The 2nd Annual Girl Mode Game Exchange

(07:20) Why don’t we dive into Slay the Princess

(01:07:00) Let’s talk about The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

(2:06:30) What else have Willa and Robin been up to?

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Alas, The Game Awards returned this week, and this time it was worse than ever. Tune in to hear the world record for how many times a human has said the word “frustrating” in an hour, plus some suggestions for shows you can watch that won’t fill you with fury. 

Timestamps

(00:30) Boy howdy The Game Awards was a nightmare

(45:30) What else have Willa and Robin been up to?

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Willa’s Winter Spectacular piece

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We're back from our week off with a giant-size return to the world of the X-Men. This time we tackle the dark ages known as the 1990s, when the X-Men took a detour from political allegory to the more business-friendly world of utter schlock. Join us as we catch up on what’s new in the lives of our old friends, our old friends’ clones, alternate dimension versions of our old friends, our old friends from the future, and our old friends as babies.

Listen to part one and part two of this series.

Follow along with the images in this episode here.

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(00:30) Professor Willa returns to this timeline

(01:40:20) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?

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In the spirit of the games industry itself, today's episode is a completely unnecessary remaster. We took a break from recording this week, so we're filling the gap with a re-release of our very first episode, but this time run through some fancy filters to make it actually listenable!

We'll be back with a regular episode next time! Until then, we hope you enjoy this proof that we are actually getting better at this.

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Listen this week as we have a normal, friendly conversation and never once shout at each other or cause trouble. We're following up last week's Game Awards predictions with the Official Girl Mode ballot in yet another installment of why Willa and Robin should be in charge of all games media.

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The day before the Game Awards nominees were announced, the Girl Mode council convened to make our own predictions about what would be on the ballot. Tune in to witness our amazing powers of prophecy and/or deductive reasoning.

But first, we tackle our complicated feelings on the state of games media, as a new Defector of video games sprung up in the middle of another week of layoffs and shutdowns. It's inside baseball as hell this week, hope you're into that!

Timestamps

(00:30) Our thoughts on games media, part ten million

(24:00) We predict the future (which is now the past)

(1:05:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?

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It's Girl Mode's first anniversary! We're celebrating by making our listeners come up with this week's topic, aka, answering listener questions. Tune in as we discuss our dream game mechanics, video games as short films, why we refuse to git gud, and our growing obsession with Final Fantasy XI.

Thanks so much to everyone who sent us questions and everyone who's listened to us! It means a lot and we hope you'll stick around for Girl Mode Year 2: The Dark Phoenix Saga.

Timestamps

(00:20) Happy birthday to us

(04:30) Question time

(1:11:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?

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Esther Rosenfield on Alita: Battle Angel

Dia Lacina on Final Fantasy XI

Notes of a Crocodile

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We spent the week catching up on some of the best games of the year in the lead-up to the Game Awards. Tune in to hear about some of the best games you might have overlooked of 2023, plus our thoughts on why graphics don't actually need to get any better.

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Harper Jay on Star Wars: The Old Republic

Robin on Saltsea Chronicles

Willa on the folly of photorealism

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