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If you say "Altered Beast" backward, the curse will activate. Your head will get bigger as your body gets smaller, until you roll down a hill and disappear.

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Hello everyone! Welcome to the Season 03 feedback episode, where we answer your questions about the X-Men. Thanks to everyone that wrote in! If you missed the cut off, don't worry: you can send your question in at ANY time. It'll be saved to be read on the next feedback episode. In this episode, Gary and Jeremy talk about their favorite and least favorite superpowers, Twiztd, licking various X-Men, and they publicly shame Bryan Wade. It's a good one folks.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about PlayerUnknown’s Battleground sales, X-COM 2: War of the Chosen, and we ask you how much you indulge in game hype.

• PUBG hit 10 million units sold.
• Resident Evil 7’s final DLC coming in December.
• Walking Dead AR game coming to phones.
• Zork minutia.

• What’s your relationship with game coverage and hype?

• Dennis: Dreadnought. X-COM 2: War of the Chosen.
• Ben: Stick Shift.
• Kole: Pocket Arcade Story.
• David: Fortnite.

Links:

• Zarf Updates: Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading
• Stick Shift by Robert Yang

Plant week concludes with a classic: the Shambling Mound.

The title seems redundant, but it's better than saying "Batman, the NES game. The one made by SunSoft. For the first movie, kinda."

This might be the hardest game we've done for the show, but we might also have lost track. This is a compact little platformer that is certainly of its era, but it's also a rare great licensed game. Borrowing elements from several other platformers, Ninja Gaiden most noticeably, SunSoft created a challenging and technical Batman game when mediocrity would have sold.

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Links:

• Ninja Baseball Bat Man - Wikipedia
• AGDQ 2016 - The Legend of Zelda Any% (NES, 1986) by Lackattack24 - YouTube
• The Moth | Podcast
• Winchester Cathedral - YouTube

We love Resident Evil, and are willing to extend it a lot of leeway. However, this entry is a bridge too far. At the height of their powers, the Resident Evil team decided to make a hybrid FPS/light gun/survival horror game on the PSX of all systems. The result is bland and muddled, even if it adds a little to Umbrella lore.

Summer Jam season continues, late into the summer, with this undeniable ear worm from the golden age of west coast gangsta rap. Dig it.

Plant week continues with some smart, smart plants.

Gary Buttefield joins the show to talk about Stephen King's novella (and the associated movie) that's all about what we become when the fear sets in. An otherworldly fog containing hideous monsters has descended on a small town, and perhaps the only survivors are locked away in a grocery store. The pressure is on.