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An episode of Abject Suffering that's about suffering.

This is it folks! Time to wrap up the Avengers with a three part episode that was scaled back to two parts and instead of rewriting the story they just ended on the second episode! Hurrah! Plz enjoy.

Kole, Ben, and Dennis talk about some followup to that Spider-Man proposal, Ratchet and Clank, and we ask you about your favorite times that games have honored your unexpected choices.

• Followup: The Spider-Man Proposal.
• Lots of board game adaptations are coming to the Switch.
• Horizon Zero Dawn board game Kickstarter succeeds wildly.

• What’s your favorite way a game has honored your unexpected choices?

• Ben: Spider-Man. Magic: The Gathering.
• Dennis: Ratchet and Clank. Impossible Road.
• Kole: Human Resource Machine.

We love the Gabriel Knight series, but Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is the kind of game only a parent could love. It follows Knight's adventures in France as he tries to solve a kidnapping case that involves the Holy Grail and a set of vampires called "The Night Visitors".

What makes Gabriel Knight 3 such a dicey proposition to play is its questionable presentation. Sierra forced Jane Jensen and her team to make the game fully 3D, which they were neither equipped to accomplish, nor comfortable doing. So it's a technical nightmare that plays very awkwardly, and it gets in its own way. The highs remain quite high, since this series uniquely captures the feeling of being a detective investigating a case. It's just... very difficult to recommend.

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• How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s - Waypoint

Johnny Cage is not afraid to die, but we weren't prepared for this album.

We aim for variety on this show. We don't want to fall into a rut of just covering bad video game movies. Sometimes we want to cover bad video game music, too. Mortal Kombat mania produced a lot of cultural output, but nothing matches the sheer idiocy of Mortal Kombat: The Album, by The Immortals, a side project of Lords of Acid. You need to experience it for yourself to understand just how execrable a novelty techno dance album can be. I don't think we've dunked on anything harder in the whole run of our shows.

Two is one and one is none. That's what we learn in this week's episode, as Autumn Greer joins me to talk about the beginning of the end of Wolves of the Calla. We learn why the older Slightman is cooperating with the Wolves, and we also get closer to figuring out how to protect the Rose. However, it involves Eddie taking a brief jaunt into is old, strange home of Manhattan.