The Pitch

Heya folks! This week is we continue our dive into X-Men movies with First Class, a reboot of the X-Men universe that came out in 2011. We see the origin of all of least favorite X-Men and also some of our favorites. This is a long episode because a whole lot of stuff happens. So sit back, relax, pop your adamantium claws, and listen to us walk you through the coolest shit Magneto has ever done.

Kole, Ben, and Jala talk about, Corpse Party: Blood Drive, the 2018 NPD Game Gear Game Mystery, and we ask you what moment in your life most resembled a video game.

• Paratopic is what Back in 1995 should have been.
• Someone bought a Game Gear Game in 2018.
• Xbox One adds Discord integration.

• What moment in your life was the most like a video game?

• Jala: Abyss Odyssey. Fire Emblem: Awakening. Corpse Party: Blood Drive.
• Ben: Subnautica.
• Kole: Nintendo Labo. Deep Town.

The story is in the telling, and who cares if you stretch or fib a little bit? That's the conceit at the center of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger that raises it above its predecessors. It also raises it above its own gameplay, which is firmly in the "arcadey shooter" category. It's stylish as all hell, and it bends to fit the narration in exciting and entertaining ways.

A few times during the episode, we decry that Gunslinger was pulled from digital stores. In the time between when we recorded the episode and its release, it was recently re-listed after Techland bought the publishing rights. So go grab it and see what's up!

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Links:

• The Green Mile Trailer - YouTube
• Gun (video game) trailer - YouTube
• Answering the Call of Juarez (A Series Retrospective) - YouTube
• Mad Dog McCree - PlayStation 3 - Official Trailer - YouTube
• Dying Light - Launch Trailer - YouTube

God's only perfect creation, Tommy Lee Jones, once voiced an action figure who tried to torture a boy. That was the genesis of Small Soldiers, an attempted multimedia franchise with the craziest casting and the wildest soundtrack. This episode was originally supposed to be about the "Globotech Design Lab" game, but that wouldn't run, so we did a survey of the property instead. And Kole also talks about stop #1 on his Kastle Quest.

This dog just wants to be a real boy.

They did the Crash Bash, it was a mediocre smash.

Controversial provenance provokes the most pedantic of posting.