Hyper-Bolic Game Chamber

This episode, the boys venture into the uncharted regions of deep space with the 1995 FMV adventure The Daedalus Encounter!

After a tragic wartime accident leaves our hero, Casey, is left as a mute brain in a box, connected only to a lone space probe. Luckily(?) for them, they have their loyal friends Captain Ari and Zack to put them to work salvaging space trash. But when the trio crash on a strange and massive alien ship, the trio must solve the mysteries of an unknown culture before the vessel drifts into a burning star! Sounds exciting, right? Weeeeeeell...

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This episode, the boys venture into the pantheon of Greek Myth with the 2005 smash hit God of War!

The first of the franchise, God of War is the story of Kratos, a Spartan warrior in service to the gods of Olympus as he seeks redemption for his past sins. At the end of his 10 year journey, Kratos is faced with one final daunting task: to kill the mad God of War himself, Ares. So Kratos will hack and slash his way across the land in pursuit of the only thing that can kill a god: Pandora's Box.

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This episode, the boys trust in their force and head for the Garden of Madness with Suda 51's cult hit No More Heroes!

No More Heroes is the story of Travis Touchdown, a listless otaku who lives out of a motel room and spends all his time watching anime and old wrestling matches on VHS. Well, most of his time. The rest of his time he spends slicing up dudes with a laser sword as he battles to be the top ranked Assassin in a city-wide tournament of death! But the anime and wrestling are still top priorities.

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In this unexpected emergency episode, the boys face down the worst writing they have ever seen on the show courtesy of Ubisoft's latest, Far Cry 5.

Far Cry 5 is the story of a mute, disembodied arm holding a gun as you float across Hope County, Montana on a mission to save the county from a dangerous doomsday cult. The cult, which seems to have no ideology beyond "Killin' folks is cool", is lead by the supposedly charismatic madman Joseph Seed and his deranged family. Can you stop Old Joe's diabolical machinations? Should you even bother?

In this episode, the boys return to an old friend and talk about Visceral Games' magnum opus, Dead Space 2.

Dead Space 2 takes place 3 years after the first game. Our hero, Isaac Clarke, survived the horrors aboard the starship Ishimura, but finds himself trapped on the space station The Sprawl as yet another invasion of deadly Necromorphs breaks out. Even worse, the psychological trauma of the Ishimura is manifesting as deadly reality, and Isaac struggles against foes both real and imagined.

Also, lots of zombie babies.

It's December, and that means it's time to shop till you drop with Dead Rising!

There's not much to do in the sleepy burg of Willamette, Colorado besides kill time at the shopping mall. But now that mall has become the last safe place in the city as the streets are flooded with shambling undead. It's up to Frank West, freelance reporter, to brave the zombie hordes and get to the bottom of the deadly conspiracy behind the outbreak. There's also a clown who breathes fire.

Note: we recorded this before the Patreon situation was resolved, so we do briefly talk about it, but we've since seen the announcement.

In this bonus ep, we take a look at the games released this year and which ones made an impact on us, good or bad. We talk about our both our favorites and our biggest disappointments. Since we talk spoilers, here's a list of the games we talk about:

Resident Evil 7

Nioh

Tekken 7

Injustice 2

Star Wars Battlefront 2

Pyre

Night in the Woods

Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy

Telltale's Batman

Persona 5

Assassin's Creed Origins

Wolfenstein 2

Agents of Mayhem

In 2002, thousands of fan fictions suddenly became validated when Final Fantasy and Disney Films got all mashed together in a big soupy bowl called Kingdom Hearts.

Sora is a kid with big dreams. When an invasion of shadowy monsters destroys his home, he finds himself wielding the legendary Keyblade as he is cast adrift in the universe. Meanwhile, Donald Duck and Goofy set out on a journey from Disney Castle to find the missing King Mickey Mouse. Sora, Donald, and Goofy team up and set out on a journey to find lost friends and maybe even save the universe. Also, Tarzan is there.

As per Spookchamber tradition, we return to the legendary Resident Evil franchise with the third entry in the series, Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis.

Jill Valentine survived the terrors of the Spencer Mansion, but now the zombie apocalypse has followed her home. Jill tries to make a desperate escape from a city overrun with undead mutants, but finds that one specific and very angry monster is gunning specifically for her. And he does actually have a gun, by the way. Nemesis does not mess around.

Also, we get distracted and talk about Resident Evil 7 for a while, but don't worry; we stick to joke spoilers.

In the third entry in this year's Spookchamber, the boys delve into the terrors of the mind with Shinji Mikami's The Evil Within.

Detective Sebastian Castellanos works a tough beat in Krimson City. But things are about to get far worse for him and his partner Joseph as they find themselves welcomed into a madman's twisted mind. Trapped in a nightmare world, Sebastian contends with a legion of monstrous apparitions and deadly traps as he desperately seeks an escape from the diabolical Ruvik.