With Snatcher under our belts, it's time to play Kojima's other major pre-MGS game, Policenauts! It's a lot like Snatcher, but with a lot of improvements. However, one thing that was not improved is our new main character Jonathan Ingram, who unfortunately shares one too many traits with Gillian Seed.

Episode 80: Hideo, It's a Restaurant

We finished Snatcher! It's time to find out the secrets of Gillian's past and save Neo-Kobe City. But mostly we're just here to appreciate our boys Metal Gear Mk II and Random Hajile. They both have a guaranteed place in the blunt rotation.Episode 79: The Secret of the Skin

Now that we've watched Blade Runner it's time to play Kojima's rip-of—— uh, I mean homage to Blade Runner: Snatcher! For a 30+ year old game, it holds up, or at least if you can overlook some of the writing around its women... but if you can do that, it's a good time! Join us as we play through the first half of this surprisingly charming adventure game from the earlier days of Kojima.Episode 78: The Skeuomorphism Hole

Last time we took a diversion to talk about Blade Runner after Kojima talked it up in the Creative Gene, so of course it'd be foolish of us to not talk about it's surprisingly great, years later sequel: Blade Runner 2049. And we have so much to say about it, from it's many great performances (and one notable bad one), it's amazing production, our various feelings about the ending, and the one universal truth: Dave Bautista is the man.Episode 77: If Only He Tried Acting

Inspired by Kojima's essay on it in The Creative Gene, we're talking about Blade Runner! Ridley Scott's massively influential science fiction classic. When were not gushing over how good the film is and how much Rutger Hauer's performance makes us want to cry, we try to dissect the film for its most "Metal Gear" like elements.Episode 76: You Ever See a Man and Want to Cry?

We did it. We survived Metal Gear Survive. We talk about the story (what little there is), the repetitiveness of the gameplay, and the overall sauceless-ness of it all. Oh, and we also talk extensively about the cast of Zoolander for reasons.Episode 75: World of Tanks Creature Design

It's finally time for us to play the infamously poorly received Metal Gear Survive, so you know what that means: we spend some time reminiscing about Metal Gear AC!D 2, looking up Digimon on the villains fandom wiki, and also talking about the ups and (mostly) downs of our first few hours with this middling survival game.Episode 74: Pre-Wegmans Venus

Now that we've wrapped up DS2, it's time return to the world of books as we dig into The Creative Gene: A collection of essays by Kojima about his favorite books, movies, and various other things. We gain a lot of insight into his thematic inspirations, where many of the ideas for Death Stranding came from, some biographical info about the man, and his thoughts about life and the connections we make. Join us as we pour through this collection, and come to a startling conclusion about Kojima's gaming habits.Episode 73: Kojima, Get Your Library Card

It's not the journey, it's the strands we made along the way... We finished Death Stranding 2! Time to bask in it's final moments as we face off against a giant crab, enter the tokusatsu zone, and guitar battle our gay rival. We also confirm some long standing theories of ours. All I'll say is Tomorrow is in your hands... Episode 72: Bigger Lou Theory

We're coming up real close to the end of DS2 which means we've got lots to talk about in this episode. We've got more Higgs and more Neil, the return of two old friends, the Patriots, and... Tomie? All this and more as we wrap our heads around this penultimate section of DS2.

Episode 71: These Three Girls Can Kill God