Original Soundchat

THIS WEEK: Peter becomes the director of a government agency to find a sibling and root out the Hiss in Control and Joe befriends departed souls to complete their final tasks before saying goodbye with Max LL's work in Spiritfarer.

THIS WEEK: Joe navigates a princess through MC Escher-inspired impossible geometry in Monument Valley and Peter frees Ptolemaic Egypt from the grasp of the Order of the Ancients with Sarah Schachner's work in Assassin's Creed Origins.

THIS WEEK: Peter teaches students at Garreg Mach Monastery as Fódlan is on the brink of war in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Joe flees to Ishgard to clear his name and discover the truth of The Dragonsong War with Susan Calloway's work in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward.

THIS WEEK: Joe leads a little robot on a journey to save a grungy city and his friends inside of it in Machinarium and Peter wields an energy sword on a 16-bit quest to find the cure to an illness with Akash Thakkar's work in Hyper Light Drifter.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter take a Thanksgiving break from dissecting game soundtracks and the critical five songs within them, in order to answer some questions that have been asked by listeners

THIS WEEK: Joe steps into the Galar region to find a controversy that got Dynamaxed out of proportion in Pokémon Sword & Shield and Peter discovers how much water is too much in a remade Hoenn with Hitomi Sato's work in Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire.

THIS WEEK: Peter attempts daring heists with two other protagonists in the exciting city of Los Santos with Edgar Froese's work in Grand Theft Auto V and Joe becomes the Demi-Fiend to appeal to the Vortex World's Kagutsuchi in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne.

THIS WEEK: Joe rotates a planet to control happy solid-colored orbs that can split and merge in LocoRoco and Peter remembers "No Russian" and the first-person shooter that took a franchise to stratospheric heights with Hans Zimmer's work in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

THIS WEEK: Joe dives into what remains of humanity at the derelict undersea facility known as PATHOS-II with Mikko Tarmia's work in SOMA.

THIS WEEK: Joe grabs his camera to snag the latest ghoulish scoop at Willamette Parkview Mall in Dead Rising and Peter swerves with a motion-controlled plastic wheel alongside 12 racing bikes with Asuka Ohta's work in Mario Kart Wii.