Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) have a very casual conversation about the merits of comfort food with regards to video games and anime as pieces of media you utilize when you’re feeling down or things aren’t going great. A lot of them are things we’ve discussed previously, but we give thoughts on why these work in this specific context as comfort food.

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Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) revisit a game Jared talked about 177 episodes ago! AL finally played through the game so we discuss our various experiences with it, the interesting aspects the game brings to various characters and their arcs, how this game is as a sequel, and what the anime adaptation provides for the story.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) have decided to have a nice civil conversation about the best Final Fantasy games that they’ve both played. We figure out what is the best, what’s the worst, and what’s in between. And of course, it’s very civil, until we reached the middle of the list.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at an old game that’s been reborn as new. AL played through a portion of the story in Trials of Mana before learning that maybe it was a game that was better off left in the past and could’ve done without it’s bizarre voice acting. We also do some trivia to kick off the episode.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) decide for a more chill episode and attempt to figure out what was the best year in video games. That chill podcast ended up being one of the longer episodes we’ve done some how, but we go from 1978 to 2019 and determine once and for all, the best year in games.

If you don’t want to listen to all three hours of the pod, which we get, that’s a long time, you can go to around 2:48:00 where we begin our final deliberations.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Resident Evil as they discuss the game that could’ve been Resident Evil 3 at one point in time, Code: Veronica. We discuss the game’s strange development history, how it should get a remake before RE4, the bizarre nature of where the series goes after this game, and what we would’ve liked to have seen from RE4 and beyond taking into account what happens at the end of this game.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) go through a wild variety of things to talk about. First, Jared discusses the PC Engine CD version of Sailor Moon that recently got an English translation and where the story lines up with the original anime. We both discuss Totally Reliable Delivery Service and the ridiculous hijinx that we got into. Finally, Jared breaks down the novelization of Metal Gear Solid 2 and how bizarre it is.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the late 90s and the world of Hi Score Girl to see how the series wraps up. With the latest episodes finally hitting Netflix, we breakdown the rest of the series and how we feel with the way the show ends.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) go on a time travelling adventure after AL played through Steins;Gate for the first time. We discuss the various endings, the wild ins and outs of the story as a whole, and how the series has a bonkers ending that does some fun stuff with player manipulation.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) talk about one of their more hotly anticipated releases of the year thus far in Doom Eternal. We talk about the gameplay, how it compares to its predecessor, and why we came out of this game feeling disappointed rather than excited to continue ripping and tearing.