The Pitch

The Morphic Trilogy draws to a close as all of our players converge on the lobby of VenTech Tower. This episode is mostly flashbacks and dream sequences, illuminating some of the most important secrets in the backstory of the Venture Bros. universe.

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.

The Curious Expedition isn't a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but it sits at a table set with a lot of outdated tropes that don't look so great nowadays. We're pretty sure this Patron just wanted us to make a bummer episode about colonialism. So we talk about that, along with how people just drown in pig shit and we, as a society, have decided to accept that.

Manny Perez joins us to talk about Elden Ring in general, and we read some written responses from Zullie the Witch. Then we dive into your responses to Elden Ring's early game, up through Stormveil. As a warning, we don't avoid spoilers for the first 61 minutes of the episode, so if you're sensitive to that please skip forward.

In this epsiode we cover: X-Men Messiah Complex #1, Uncanny X-Men #492, X-Factor #25, New X-Men #44 aka the beginning of the Messiah Complex!

Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be sure to check with your local library to see if they have them there! You can find one using this site

Music by Gary, podcast art by our friend Wayne

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Snowrunner, Diablo Immortal, Open Sorcery, and much more!

• Jala: Fire Emblem: Echoes. Open Sorcery: Jingle BEL/S. 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonald’s. Contradiction.
• Dennis: Roller Champions. Diablo Immortal. Snowrunner.
• Ben: Mudrunner. Elden Ring. Monster Train.
• Kole: None.

• What video game sidekick would you like to have?

• GoldenEye 007 remaster is possibly coming.
• GameStop employees in Nebraska walk out.
• Resident Evil 4 remake officially announced.
• Wholesome Direct 2022 is scheduled for 2022.

The world is waiting to be reborn, and it's waiting for you. Terranigma is probably Quintet's grandest statement on its pet themes... an action RPG that purports to be about the duality of creation and destruction. Over the course of a playthrough you raise the continents, restore the wildlife, bring humanity to its highest peak, and break the cycle of fate to stop its ultimate destruction.

Is the game perfect? Not hardly. But it's got a unique tone and it improves on its predecessors' combat enough to make it one of the best SNES games out there.

Big thanks to Hello for executive producing this episode, and happy birthday to Séan!

Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

You've never heard of this game show, and because it's on Peacock you'll probably never see it. But it's worth talking about because, wow, it's a very bad idea. Imagine sacrificing your bodily integrity to suffer concussions and broken bones on a more boring version of American Ninja Warrior, where every move is "gently jump to another surface and crawl on top of it". And imagine doing so while two hosts with the worst chemistry imaginable take potshots at you. It's a wild experience.

While the Ventures are trying to solve the curse of the haunted PROBLEM, the Monarch gets in way over his head with Wide Wale. Attempting to cinch the arching rights for Rusty gets the Monarch kidnapped, and it's up to 21 and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch to try and extract him from a delicate situation. Meanwhile, Enrico Matassa is back on the scene...

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.