The Pitch

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Super Auto Pets, Snowrunner, the Quarry, and much more!

• Dennis: God of War (2018). Snowrunner.
• David: Snowrunner. No Man’s Sky. Destiny II. Vampire Survivor.
• Ben: Super Auto Pets. The Looker.
• Kole: The Quarry.

• What’s your favorite black character in games?

• There’s no way to finish KOTOR II on Switch.
• Xbox PC app will tell you if you can run a game.
• Gloomhaven dev stops using Kickstarter because of blockchain move.
• Maniac mods a mosquito swatter to gamify it.

We knew right after its release that Vampyr would be a WOFF! game. An RPG that cites Bloodlines as an inspiration, made by a smaller studio, with a great premise and very high highs that are unfortunately compromised by some very low lows. This bore out on our playthrough for the show. Jonathan Reid, the only vampire doctor in fiction, sets out to try and stop a horrifying epidemic in 1918 London, and learns that the disease is intricately related to the vampiric underground in the city. We don't end up loving the game, but we admire it.

Thanks so much to Jack for executive producing this episode!

You can steer clear of a lot of problems by staying above ground. In fact, there are few reasons to go down there. Few reasons worth dealing with the CHUDS for, anyway. Someone should have told that to these thrill-seeking ladies, looking to do some spelunking after their friend suffers a tragic loss.

The Descent is one of the scariest movies out there, even before the monsters show up. But the monsters aren't entirely pointless... they're effective on their own and they drive the incident. This isn't a perfect movie, but it frequently had moments that flirt with perfection.

Just like every sitcom has the "learning the dangers of credit cards" episode, every cartoon must have the "rich person realizes they're broke" episode. Maybe that's just this and the Simpsons. Regardless, the Monarch learns that he's broke after completely renovating his parents' condemned mansion, and now he has to work the steps to get back on his feet. This involves finding his way back into Dean's life, even though the boy just escaped his father's clutches to live in the dorms at Stuyvesant University.

Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, Gwen May for our theme song, and Brayton Cameron for being our announcer.

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Nickelodeon's GUTS, later Global GUTS, was a mainstay of the network's "cheaply produced gameshows" that acted as ballast for some of the other, bigger shows. Each episode, a group of kids competed in physical challenges, culminating in a trip up the Aggro Crag, for a chance to win a "glowing piece of that radical rock". From this setup, we get a really anemic minigame collection that's mostly repeats... so Gary talks about a juggler he saw recently.

Having killed Godrick and taken his Great Rune, it's time to venture into the sunken basin of Liurnia of the Lakes. First we make a quick stop back to Roundtable Hold to get a glimpse at the Fingers, and then we hit the NPCs and dungeons of the southernmost ridges and reaches of the great swamp that acts as the cradle for the birthplace of Glintstone Sorcery.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about The Quarry, Citizen Sleeper, To the Moon, and more!

• David: Destiny 2. No Man’s Sky. Snowrunner.
• Ben: Citizen Sleeper. The Quarry.
• Kole: The Quarry.
• Jala: The Quarry. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. To the Moon.

• Free Play!

• The Diablo Immortal monetization scheme is ironically demonic.
• Capcom announces release date and details for Resident Evil Village DLC.
• Netflix is making a Squid Game reality show and I hate it here.
• Bethesda seems to be setting themselves up for failure with Starfield.

If you have even a mild interest in old games, your critical acumen will always be caught up in the tension between historical import and modern playability. Few games stress that dissonance more than Another World, which combines an unbeatable atmosphere and tremendous influence with some very outmoded game design. Is it worth taking the plunge? Listen in, buddy!

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Bratz dolls were so hideous that they started a moral panic, and they were also a transmedia property! Movies, TV shows, games, all dedicated to the dolls So Ugly They Made the News. This is one of the more robust mini-game collections we've covered, but we're more interested in the gossip to be found in the comments on the Bratz Wiki pagez.