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THIS WEEK: Peter uses a legendary sword to unseal eight seeds and change the world in Secret of Mana and Joe performs The Rites through strategic wizard basketball with Ashley Barrett's work in Pyre.

Joe travels across the Great Depression United States as a skeleton to find stories in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine and Peter didn't ask for the cyberpunk ethics of mechanical human augmentation with Michael McCann's work in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

THIS WEEK: Peter climbs large behemoths to bring a girl back to life with Kow Otani's work in Shadow of the Colossus and Joe sets the bar high for Japanese role-playing games by becoming an eco-terrorist in Final Fantasy VII.

THIS WEEK: Joe drives the Eight-Six as fast as he possibly can in Initial D, Peter takes bounties across the solar system for the almighty Woolong in Cowboy Bebop, and Matt battles in the Holy Grail War alongside his Servant with Yuki Kajiura's work in Fate/Zero.

THIS WEEK: Peter becomes a Phantom Thief to change the hearts of corrupt adults in Persona 5 and Joe explores corridors and makes maps with an Etrian Odyssey flair with Toshiki Konishi's work in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth.

THIS WEEK: Joe takes a bus into town to live out his simulated anthropomorphized life in Animal Crossing: City Folk and Peter delivers an Ultra Combo to the Xbox One's launch-exclusive fighting game with Robin Beanland's work in Killer Instinct (2013).

THIS WEEK: Peter becomes a light spirit to use the power of elements to bring the forest back to life in Ori and the Blind Forest and Joe uses his nail sword to dive into Hallownest and deal with its bug denizens with Christopher Larkin's work in Hollow Knight.

THIS WEEK: Joe goes bananas by platforming with 3D models that are compressed into 2D sprites in Donkey Kong Country and Peter comes back from the dead to build a spaceship crew and save humanity with Sam Hulick's work in Mass Effect 2.

THIS WEEK: Peter runs and guns his way to hunt down Mavericks in Mega Man X and Joe explores the planet Zebes to reclaim a baby with Kenji Yamamoto's work in Super Metroid.

THIS WEEK: Joe whips monsters during a difficult quest to defeat Dracula in Castlevania and Peter channels the powers of the Umbra Witch to defeat the angels of Paradiso with Hiroshi Yamaguchi's work in Bayonetta.