The Pitch

Animated, disembodied hands aren't as cool as you'd think!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross groove to Elite Beat Agents and Rhythm Heaven.

This summer, we decided to let our listeners decide which rhythm games we should play. The resounding winners were to non-peripheral Nintendo DS rhythm games that couldn't be any more different. Elite Beat Agents is soaking in charm, but we find a lot of problems with it mechanically and musically. Meanwhile, Rhythm Heaven is drenched in charm, and manages to be in the upper echelon of games we've played for the show.

• [Teenage Dirtbags Lit](duckfeed.tv/tdb/my-own-worst-enemy-by-lit)
• [Mega64 EBA](www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZGzhsS-5I)
• [Nick Fury Enemies](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_(comics))
• [Joey Chestnut](www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0E8ImL4aXY)
• [Diarrhea Planet](www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLsZzeLlXTQ)
• [EBA all 4 difficulties at once](www.youtube.com/watch?v=1POsLGnIr…L0008802F0A1600FD)
• [Don Hertzfeldt](www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l7sxPLhOQk)

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What's more Summery than a nice bike ride? But you gotta ride safe, we're begging you please.

The Monstrous Manual takes a left turn... Instead of making the Crabmen another orc stand-in, they've created a morally nuanced ethical test. A very tasty ethical test.

Links:

• Crabman (Monstrous Manual) — Crabmen live as simple hunter-gatherers, subsisting primarily on carrion and algae.

Up Next: The Christian spinoff, Sonic Sinball.

This entry on the Couatl was written by a Couatl.

Links:

• Couatl (Monstrous Manual) — The couatl are feathered serpents of myth and lore. It is believed that they are distant relatives of dragons, although this remains unproven.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the Catacombs of Carthus.

Remember, all bets are off re: spoilers next week. You are forewarned.

Oh, it's just one of the best games we've done on the show. Oh, and Ichi. Ichi is also here.

It's a shittier, birdier basilisk. Next.

Links:

• Cockatrice (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia — The cockatrice is based on medieval alchemical folklore, which believed they came from a snake or a toad hatching a rooster's egg. The cockatrice is sometimes called a basilisk in ancient mythos.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Deus Ex: Invisible War.

• [Asshole Physics](www.somethingawful.com/news/max-payne-asshole/)
• [Sunglasses at Night](www.it-he.org/deus.htm)
• [Moraff's World](www.myabandonware.com/game/moraff-s-world-2ho)
• [Servile Wars](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servile_Wars)

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