South Figaro Podcast

Is the newest Pokemon Let's Go for babies, or the perfect streamlining of the long-running series? Resident Pokemon fanatic-er, master Beeb weighs in on the game, while I talk about my first Distant Worlds concert and how it renewed my love and faith for the Final Fantasy series....for the brief moment until the bad news kicked in. Also, my iron-clad 100% accurate predictions for the Playstation 5!

I just finished Castlevania Season 2 and couldn't gush about it fast enough to Blue Map, while Beeb joins in partway to talk Red Dead Redemption 2....and not entirely in a positive way. After engaging in the latest Smash Bros shenanigans, we do spend some time to dive into Deltarune with a spoilercast at the end of this episode.

Blue and Shadow are here to talk up all sorts of stuff this week. Netflix has a staggering amount of quality stuff, including House on Haunted Hill and Castlevania, Red Dead Redemption 2 looms in the horizon, and what's this? A live reading of the proposed leaked character list from Super Smash Bros Ultimate? Listen in on my real-time reactions. That's bullshit, but I believe it. (?)

Bowsette? That's old and tired, I'm all about Bullet Jill. Once we get that nonsense out of the way, Beeb and I hunker down to talk about heroes in this (mostly) spoilercast for My Hero Academia season 3 and the latest movie, Two Heroes.

September still isn't over, and the insanity just keeps coming. It's a four man party today as we talk Telltale Games closing down, the latest Devil May Cry 5 footage, Kingdom Hearts III, Final Fantasy XIV, Dishonored, Nintendo Direct and the newest Nintendo lore of Peachette (note that this was recorded before the Bowsette storm washed across social media). Oh yeah, Spider-Man came out, didn't it? Let's talk about that too.

It feels like forever ago when Simon Belmont was announced for Smash, but Blue Map and I are big Castlevania nerds who will still gush about it weeks later. I also gush lots about my return into Final Fantasy XIV, and gush some more (albeit reservedly) about the new Madoka Magica TV series announcement. There are also puddles of gush here and there about other series, and speaking about puddles....seriously, what is wrong with you people?

It's a four-man recording this week...well, three and a half, Shadowfire isn't feeling too hot. But he did have just enough stamina to sing the priases of Octopath Traveler with me, while Blue Map and Beeb give me a startling revelation of just how big the game is. Also on topic is No Man's Sky (is it good yet?), Mega Man X Legacy Collection, EVO 2018, and the most patroitic hero of the United States...from Japan.

Anime never dies, it only grows more powerful by the day! Stickguy is back, and we're here to talk about our favorite shows this year (spoilers: it's the same shows from last year). Also on topic is Western shows like Steven Universe and the upcoming She-Ra, and the horrible, horrible people who buzz around these properties like disease-ridden moths. From tonal dissonance to inspiring heroes, edgelords and criminal dads, it's a full-featured discussion this time around!

Beeb and I loved the Octo Expansion so much that we just had to dedicate a special episode discussing one of the best DLCs ever made, and my personal favorite singleplayer campaign of the year so far. We dive deep into the twisted lore of Splatoon's world as well as the shockingly (and often uncomfortable) timing of its topics about racism, immigration and the like. Who knew Nintendo would be the ones to knock out a story about such a hot-button issue with less than a third of the budget of David Cage's latest game (and about a thousand percent more subtlety)?

Soul crushing disappointment aside over yet another FFVII no-show, this year's E3 was....alright. Blue Map and Beeb concur, which is why we go through the guantlet with our personal picks (RE2!), our low points (EA. All of EA), and everything else inbetween. Sony, seriously, don't get cocky.