The Pitch

Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.

To celebrate episode 400 of Abject Suffering, we dip into some Steam crapware, based entirely on its funny name. Last of Ass has nothing to do with The Last of Us, instead being a low-effort take on Slender: The Pages meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre. You're trapped on the land of some goddamn cannibals, and you need to sneak around to get the parts you need to fix your car. That's it.

(Uncanny X-Men #161)

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Music by Gary, podcast art by our friend Wayne

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about It Takes Two, Saviorless, and we ask you to pitch games for villains.

• Jala: Moons of Madness. Hitman. Saviorless.
• Ben: qomp. It Takes Two.
• Kole: It Takes Two. Mother 3.
• Dennis: Slay the Spire. Hades.

• Make a game for a villain!

• EndeavorRx is a video game that might help with COVID brain fog.
• Sony reverses course, won’t shut down the PS Vita or PS3 online stores.
• There’s going to be a game about power washing.
• Valve fixes bug that affects Steam libraries over 25,000 games.

What do you do when you've told the story of the cabin twice? You tell it a third time! Ash goes back to the cabin for basically no reason, and gets into bad Resident Evil clone hijinks that are pretty much devoid of the humor from the movies.

Generation X #1

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

Diplomacy is the heart of one of the best episodes of this season. The Monarch has fallen into a slump, and it's up to Dr. Henry Killinger and his Magic Murder Bag to consult the archvillain back to the top of his game. Meanwhile, the boys are kidnapped by Myra, an obsessive former bodyguard who believes that she is their mother.

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

This week, Everything To Guppy takes a break from its usual item-by-item conversation to do a deep dive into all the new ideas, strategies, and content in the brand-new The Binding Of Isaac: Repentance expansion.*

*A rental copy of the 1991 Dan Aykroyd comedy Nothing But Trouble is not required to tease out the more advanced nuances.

We believe that Guilty Gear is a good series that just isn't for us. We don't really go in for hyper-stylized, chaotic fighting games like this. What everyone can agree on, we think, is that Guilty Gear Isuka is a very bad entry in that series. In an attempt to add some gimmicks to the series, the developers break the design conventions that make 2D fighters work, making for a uniquely unpleasant experience.

At long last, it's here! Our discussion of the 2020 remake of Demon's Souls, the game that started our beloved SoulsBorne series. It's been four years since we did our revisit of Demon's Souls, so we're taking this opportunity to not only talk about the changes that BluePoint made, but also reacting to these sacred spaces with modern Souls-enthusiast eyes.

This episode is pretty freeform. It begins with us discussing the remake in general, before talking about the tutorial, the Gates of Boletaria, and the Lord's Path.