The Pitch

Thus begins a strange new fascination.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Richard Pilbeam talk about the second portion of Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, up through Aldrich Saint of the Deep.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Richard's Youtube Channel

• Backyard Wrestling

• Super Metroid First Level

• Bad Endings of Myst 5

• DCL Video

• Tetsuooooooo

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Humble's streaming partner deal, Duskers, and we ask you how you name things in multiplayer games.

• Upsilon Circuit Update.

• Harold Halibut is a stop motion adventure game.

• Suda 51's The Silver Case gets an English demo.

• Humble announces streamer partner deal.

• Rocket League getting Rocket League Rumble.

• What's your naming scheme for online games? What would you name your No Man's Sky planets?

• Kole: Ain't Played Shit.

• Jala: Capcom vs. SNK 2.

• Ben: Klocki. Hook. Duskers.

• Dennis: Pokemon Go. Destiny. Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin.

Somehow the Monstrous Manual made dinosaurs boring. Bra-fucking-vo.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross soar through Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium.

We're guilty of focusing on Final Fantasy games when we talk about JRPGs because that's mostly what we grew up with. However, concurrently, there was a whole big, important series living and thriving on Sega systems, doing amazing forward looking things before it died an unceremonious death. Phantasy Star IV is considered to be the best, most friendly iteration of the main series, and you should join us to hear about how prescient it was in terms of design.

• [Vancian Magic](theevilgm.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/a-…ancian-magic/)
• [Sparkly the Crow](demonssouls.wikidot.com/crow)
• [Man-Thing](marvel.com/universe/Man-Thing)
• [Wild Arms Credits](www.youtube.com/watch?v=muDfmLwBvjM)

Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

It's a beholder, it's a shoggoth, it's redundant!

Links:

• Deepspawn (Monstrous Manual) — Deepspawn look like large, rubbery spheres of mottled grey and brown. Six arms project from their bodies; three are tentacle-arms, and three are jaw-arms, ending in mouths of many teeth. A Deepspawn also has over 40 long, retractable, flexible eye stalks it extends only three or four at a time, well away from harm.

Do you miss Uncle Charles? I do. Sometimes. It's time for the Summer of Glum! Let's get real sad!

It's your favorite Dragonlance character, Lord Soth, singing his sorrowful song about his demise.

Links:

• Death Knight (Monstrous Manual) — A death knight is the horrifying corruption of a paladin or lawful good warrior cursed by the gods to its terrible form as punishment for betraying the code of honor it held in life.

Of all the games to break the top 10% of things we've covered for the show, how in the world is "Boogerman" one of them?

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Irithyll of the Boreal Valley.

• Reveal Trailer

• Naked Gun