The Pitch

I hate to say, but sometimes you just have to respect somebody with that many muscles.

This week's episode takes us into the highest reaches of Belurat, to fight the Divine Beast Dancing Lion and learn the sad tale of Hornsent Grandam. She just wants to make you some awful soup, as long as you catfish her enough.

Please sing to the tune of "Scar Tissue" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

blows harmonica

The Gauntlet of Shar we're in act two yeah

The Gauntlet of Shar we're in act twooooOOOOOOOO

It's time to deal with a devil and put Shadowheart’s Faith to the Test.

Other Segments: 

• Sage Advice: Round up the best spells for area denial and zone control

• Fiend Folio: Cloak

• Legends and Lore: Balthazar

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Conscript, The Talos Principle 2, Shadow Warrior 3, and much more.

The Grind:

• Moxie: Shadow Warrior 3.
• Ben: The Talos Principle 2.
• Kole: Conscript.
• Dennis: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. Diablo IV. iRacing.

The Multiplayer:

• What media would you like to see get a video game adaptation?

The End Boss:

• New Indiana Jones game coming to PS5, weirdly.
• Video game anthology series announced at GamesCom.
• Black Myth: Wukong developers thought crazy streaming restrictions would fly.
• Maniac mods actual car to be racing game rig.

This week we talk about Illusion of Gaia, an action RPG that completes the Quintet Trilogy… or quadrilogy? Depends which games you include. How does it stack up against the others, and which world cultures will it mangle for RPG melodrama? The only way to find out is to listen in.

There's a doll who leads a life of danger
To everyone she meets she stays a stranger
With every move she makes another chance she takes
Odds are she won't live to see tomorrow

The monsters will continue until morale improves

Now to play a nice relaxing game where cops beat up... the incarcerated. Hmm.

It's time to tackle our first Legacy Dungeon of the DLC, the sieged settlement beneath that impossible, shadowy tower. Belurat's lower quarters are choked with the shades of its defenders, still attempting to hold the line. And there's at least one crusader still here, the annoyingly devout Messmer follower Fire Knight Queelign.

Once the Stones of Shar are placed into the Gauntlet of Shar, Thanos will be unstoppable.

Oh my god, we're about to meet a necromancer!

Other Segments: 

• Sage Advice: Talk about the best counters for Invisibility

• Up on a Soapbox: What the hell is a "prestige dungeon"?

• Legends and Lore: Recount the Ketheric Thorm tragedy