The Pitch

This week's episodes: Worm Friend, Bone Spurs, Hungry Soul, and Your Soul.

Tootinis is a game that feels like a student project that ended up getting a little money behind it. Very little money, mind you. So we're fully in "Please Be Cool" mode because all these people did was make a weird kids' game with baffling characters and a very funny intro. Additionally we talk about what Totino's Pizzas become when they enter your mouth, the new garage that Kole saw, and Gary's glimpse at our cold metallic future.

This week we venture a little further into Altus, getting our first glimps of the Capital walls and the ghostly banners that still fly over it. We head through the Lux Ruins and some features of the southern roads, fighting Godefroy and talking with Millicent, Rya, and Corhyn. Not all is well in this once-golden land.

Hello! This week we're continuing our discussing about Uncanny X-Men with issues #15-18, the conclusion of the Dark Angel Saga. It's good y'all!

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Music by Gary, podcast art by our friend Wayne

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Life is Strange: True Colors, Just Dance 2023, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and much more!

The Grind:

• Jala: Pokémon Scarlet. Capcom 2nd Arcade Stadium. Just Dance 2023. Samurai Shodown.
• Ben: Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Marvel Snap. Returnal.
• Dennis: Elden Ring. Warzone 2.0. Trackmania. Dr. Seuss Pinball.
• Kole: Life is Strange: True Colors.

The Multiplayer:

• Free Play!

The End Boss:

• Square Enix fails to read the room on NFTs.
• Super Nintendo World is almost here.
• Lies of P is Pinnochio Bloodborne.
• Zenimax QA votes unanimously to approve their union.

We spend a lot of time talking about the need for the video game equivalent of short story collections, and What remains of Edith Finch is about as close to that as we've gotten so far. Edith is returning to her long-abandoned home to learn about her family's curse... which has resulted in the tragic, unfortunate, and sometimes hilarious deaths of everyone related to her. Each of the stories is its own interactive vignette, casting us into a magically realistic tale to see what exactly happened, and what may be in store for Edith herself.

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It's time to talk about a kids' show that we were too old for, but somehow are too innocent to fully understand. Totally Spies! Totally Party is a very boring party game, like only the early 2000s could produce. But its subject matter is a show that was entirely colonized by people who were Too Horny, and it's now considered to be an entry point for every fetish under the sun.

This week's episodes: Lil Abaddon, Montezuma's Revenge, Lil Portal, and Tainted Azazel

Magician Lord is an okay arcade game about a transforming wizard. That's not what's important, however. What's important is that we know that 2023 will be the year of the Buff Wizard, Who May or May Not Be a Frog Man. It's imperative that we embrace and hype this early so we can make it happen.

Extremely ripped wizard. Possibly a humanoid frog. Strong as hell. Lots of lightning. Lovingly rendered buttocks and genitalia. Let's make it happen, people.

With Ranni's quest behind us, we venture into the next chapter of the game as we head up the Coward's Path to reach the Altus Plateau. Whatever one might have expected of the land at the foot of the Erdtree, it's unlikely they were imagining a war-torn, fallow, eternal autumn. We talk about the paths up to Altus, and the little sub-plateau where the perfumers and a certain familiar Sage perform their rites.