Original Soundchat

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 faces the forces of the Masked Circle as rumors in Sumaru are coming true with Masaki Kurokawa's work in Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Peter battles the sentient weapons of the Smithy Gang with their takeover of Star Road and the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

THIS WEEK: Joe vanquishes the Vile Four as a knight while watering down the popular JRPG formula to appeal to a new audience with Ryuji Sasai's work in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.

THIS WEEK: Joe teams up with three other survivors against a slew of slasher icons with Michel F. April's work in Dead by Daylight and Peter chooses between three narrative paths across the open world of the Paldea region in Pokémon Scarlet/Violet.

THIS WEEK: Peter struggles with accelerated aging from FOXDIE as Liquid Ocelot launches his insurrection in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Joe tries to save his neighbor from certain death while being trapped in his cursed apartment with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn's work in Silent Hill 4: The Room.

THIS WEEK: Joe finds himself trapped on an airship with the worst group of children and a faithful dog named Brown with Yutaka Minobe's work in Rule of Rose and Peter takes the 2D platformer to the next level with Nintendo's 16-bit debut on SNES in Super Mario World.

THIS WEEK: Peter watches clips in an interactive movie trilogy to discover the fate of Marissa Marcel with Nainita Desai's work in Immortality and Joe solves the mystery of Jeremy Hartwood's death with the first survival horror adventure with 3D graphics in Alone in the Dark.

THIS WEEK: Joe solves mysteries in Shiokawa that are inspired by Junji Ito to appease an Old God with Qwesta's work in World of Horror and Peter plays both sides of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta as The Eagle Bearer in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

THIS WEEK: Peter needs to get Johnny Silverhand out of his mind while surviving in Night City with P.T. Adamczyk's work in Cyberpunk 2077 and Joe must rescue his father from Monomind as Bright Town deals with the fallout from an event called The Dark in Jack Move.

THIS WEEK: Joe begins his pilgrimage as The Penitent One in a world filled with Spanish religious imagery with Carlos Viola's work in Blasphemous and Peter tests his might in the visceral fighting game defined by its fatalities in Mortal Kombat.