The Best Games Period

A game that has been hailed as genius, revolutionary, and utter garbage all at the same time, Deadly Premonition achieved cult classic status the day it launched back in 2010. The Xbox 360 title borrows themes from Twin Peaks, constantly references famous films, and introduces the world to a delightfully twisted community hidden away in rural America where the trail of a serial killer has led FBI agent Francis York Morgan.   Joining Jack this week is Jordan Black from Just Add Monsters! Jordan does some phenomenal work leading the JAM outlet and we encourage you to check out their thought-provoking video essays!   Follow Jordan and their work on Twitter: @Bad_Durandal   Follow Just Add Monsters to keep tabs on the great content coming out: @AddMonsters   Outro music: Super Mario Galaxy 'Galaxy Drifter' by LongBoxOfChocolate (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04100)  

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Kept you waitin', huh?

We are back with this episode recorded roughly a day before the protests broke out in Minneapolis and everything became very overwhelming for a while. It has taken a bit to get back on my feet, but we're back with another podcast!

This week's episode features Justin Carter (@GigawattConduit), a writer who has bounced around the game industry for quite a while now. This week we talk about one of the tightest first-person shooters to come out in the past decade: Titanfall 2. A phenomenal multiplayer game mixed with a fast and imaginative single-player campaign set in a world torn by war waged with the help of giant robots, Titanfall 2 captured the hearts and minds of many - and birthed the now ubiquitous APEX Legends. Does it hold up? Listen along as Justin and Jack chat to find out!  

Follow Justin Carter and his work on Twitter: @GigawattConduit 

Outro music: Terranigma 'Brave New World' by jnWake, ilp0, Ivan Hakštok, Trev Wignall, zykO, and Jorito (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04084)

Thanks for waiting and I hope we can keep this podcast going for a while longer yet. It's a tough one to put together every week, but I'll do my best for you all. <3

You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod
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Friend of the show Marcus Stewart arrives to talk about his favorite party game of all-time: Towerfall. The first 100% Ouya exclusive to be featured on this program, Towerfall was developed by the same team behind the recent incredible platformer Celeste. It was created by Matt Thorson making this the first game headed by a non-binary developer to be featured on this show (at least to our knowledge).  

Follow Marcus Stewart and his work on Twitter: @MarcusStewart7

Outro music: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 'A Toadstool Mix...' by Reuben6 and Gamer of the Winds (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04064)

You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod
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This week Jack is back with another solo episode about the Obsidian Entertainment RPG Tyranny! We delve into what makes Tyranny such a risk in the RPG space and how it embraced allowing players to be evil by denying players an optimal  "good" path.

Outro music: Star Fox 2 'The Lost Legend of Lylat' by DS (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04061)

You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod
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In 2014, a small band of misfit developers who had previously worked on the game Bulletstorm released an indie game like nothing anyone had seen before. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter takes players on a journey through mystery, murder, and death with a startling amount of nuance and imagination. Join Daniel (@indiejones84) and Jack as they delve into this treat of a game!

Outro music: Zombies Ate My Neighbors 'Eighties Ate My Zombies' by Mike Norvak and Fernito (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04051)

You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod
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Joseph Yaden joins the show this week to talk about Dead Rising, one of the weird, generation defining games that appeared on Xbox 360 courtesy of the creator of Mega Man. It's a great episode and you should follow Joseph on Twitter (@JosephYaden) and try his podcast Active Quest!

Outro music: Kyatto Ninden Teyandee "TEYANDEE!" by Black Ace (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04055)

You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod
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This messy and short episode is an adequate tribute to the messy and short experiment that was Lost Planet: Extreme Condition on the Xbox 360. The game follows Wayne, a man frozen solid for 30 years as he wakes up and becomes an ice pirate and fights giant robots and monsters. The gameplay is amazing and the story is terrible. A classic Capcom game for the ages! 

Outro music: Puggsy 'The Last Lucky Planet' by CJthemusicdude (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02473) 

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This week Jack is joined by the wonderful Amanda Farough to talk about the incredibly unique systems and stories of The World Ends with You. This weird JRPG was created by a dream team composed of Kingdom Hearts II alums from Square Enix and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories veterans from handheld developer Jupiter! Let's dive into what makes it one of the best and strangest of all-time.  

Be sure to follow Amanda Farough on Twitter: @AmandaFarough

Outro music: The World Ends with You 'Calling -GUARDIAN MIX-' by GuardianSoul (https://youtu.be/ySSzUimjKpM)  

This week we tackle Horizon Zero Dawn from Guerrilla Games! We recorded the episode prior to the announcement that the former PlayStation 4 exclusive would be releasing on PC. The illustrious Kyle Gaddo came on the show to talk about how its story about man, machine, and the planet they both live on really reflects a unique outlook on our collective responsibility to the world. 

Here is a link to the Medium article by Dia Lacina discussed in the episode.

Be sure to follow Kyle Gaddo on Twitter: @kylegaddo

Outro music: Skies of Arcadia 'To the Horizon' by Jorito, BardicKnowledge, Bassoonify, Damian Nguyen, DrumUltimA, Earth Kid, Gamer of the Winds, JohnStacy, Keadrin Cain, Lauren the Flute, and Ronin Op F (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03855)   

Remember how a few years ago a pop culture critic decided to do a series of videos about tropes in video games as viewed through a feminist lens? Well, that conversation got really toxic for a long time, and five years later things seem to have cooled off. So, we're taking another look at the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series by Anita Sarkeesian!
 
Each episode of this series will zero in on one episode from the TvWiVG videos and try to break down the trope and discuss the specific points Ms. Sarkeesian made in her video essays. The series was always intended to be a starting point for a larger discussion - hopefully you learn some things or find the conversations interesting!

Y'all are fantastic and thank you so much for bearing with us as we continue on our podcasting adventure together.

You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod
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