On the Level Podcast

We're back,baby!

We've got a black light and a whole box of latex gloves so let's start prodding... it's the E3 2019 autopsy party and you're all invited!

(There is liberal use of the, perhaps, dirtiest of swear-words; so fair warning. We also say EA a fair bit.)

Yup, it's a video game. It'll be nonsense; good looking, mechanically sound nonsense. You know this already.

Aside from the 8 mins that Kojima splooged onto the internet earlier this week we go through the most recent batch of pre-E3 leaks and rumours. Sorry, "leaks."

Absolute filth this week - so many new couplings it's like the cover of some grotty gossip rag! Microsoft and Sony, Sony and Hollywood, Fromsoft and George RR Martin, Epic and everyone (or Epic and nobody), but all Simon wants to talk about is teeth...

Two big games out this week with one deserving success far more than the other; is that fair?

Also Randy puts his foot in it, a whole load of Ubisoft bods put their foot in it, Harry gets animated about DOTA and Simon gets an awkward boner over animated foxes.

Days Gone is incredible! Days Gone is awful! Days Gone is average!

(delete as applicable).

Seriously though; what the Hell is going on with the reviews for this one? We dig in and try to figure it out. Plus our thoughts on Endgame, the Saint's Row movie and that Sonic trailer.

Come back Bob Hoskins, all is forgiven.

Gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk and a few words about PS5s, discless Xboxes, ropey Capcom arcade sticks, Wuggles, laughable Game of Thrones and bland, white protagonists. Gonk.

Following on from our (unfortunately truncated) conversation on Sekiro, we take another look at it from the perspective of accessibility and what we think about cheating.

And ahead of the reveal of the Jedi Fallen Order, at the time of recording at least, we have brief discussion on some of the Star Wars things coming our galaxy in the not too distant future.

In a sort of delicious twist of irony we even found recording our discussion of Sekiro a little too hard - a technical Gremlin caused us to lose a good chunk of the back half of our discussion!

We manage to get through the news with nary a hiccup and we do have a solid chinwag regarding From Soft's latest, so it's not a complete disaster (unlike whatever the fuck that Apple Arcade arse was all about).

It's here and it might well be the future but the big question is WHY Google decided to get in on the whole game streaming business.

Did the next-gen arrive already or will Stadia be consigned to the room with all those Google glasses?

For a franchise that almost started my accident, Dante and the boys haven't done half bad for themselves...

With the launch of the exceptionally well received 5th entry (in the original continuity) Harry attempts to explain the story line(s) to Simon.

It's weird. But not as weird as "real doll" foot monsters.