AKA “Rat Cat Monkey Griffin Cryptid”, “Elevated Mind Peers,” “The Land-Crushing Robot Whose Heart Broke That Day,” “The Metaphors Come Tumbling Down,” “The Narcissism of Small Differences,” “A Democratic Unified Nation of Racists”

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:25) — Lawrence plays The Last Guardian

• (02:45) — Is this good? / Animal Lovers Delight In Trico

• (10:05) — Really, the boy is the problem

• (12:30) — Spoiler-Free Story Time / The Death by Newbery Medal problem (and a brief diatribe in how Ghost of Tsushima got around it)

• (23:37) — The Last Guardian’s Technical / Length issues

• (30:57) — It’s called what in Japanese??

• (33:54) — Lawrence’s obligatory platinum trophy-unlocking braggardry cubbyhole

• (38:36) — It’s a little too easy to sound negative about games like this, so to be clear, The Last Guardian is cool

(41:59) — Lee plays Metaphor ReFantazio

• (48:27) — Expectations vs Reality

• (53:18) — “Metaphor is the Earthboundification of Persona”

• (01:01:36) — Metaphor’s story (spoiler-free) in a nutshell (and a brief aside about Neil Druckmann)

• (01:10:11) — A long way of saying that it's harder to get attached to fantasy characters

• (01:30:21) — Final Thoughts: Lee stands with the racists of Metaphor ReFantazio

(01:35:20) — Don’t be beta men; BE VECTORMEN

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AKA “[Derogatory]”, “Nihilism All The Way Down,” “Not Even Worth The Bullet”

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:00) — Lee explores virtual reality with Meta’s Horizon Worlds

(08:05) — Follow-Up (Improved Mic; Team Bondi; Yakuza 2’s plot relevance; X-Men’s all Too Human Destiny)

(14:07) — Lawrence does some Spring Cleaning 2025

• (15:04) — Spring Cleaning Game #1: Shovel Knight Treasure Trove

• (27:21) — Spring Cleaning Game #2: Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition

• (29:23) — Spring Cleaning Game #3: 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim

(36:37) — Lee and Lawrence both play the original Armored Core

• (37:23) — Super Robot vs Real Robot

• (39:13) — Conceptual Origin Point of Hidetaka Miyazaki?

• (41:09) — Going into AC blind

• (57:38) — Does it hold up? Lee says yes, Lawrence says sort of

• (1:01:35) — Customization and a terrible final gauntlet

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Links

• GamesIndustry.biz / Digital Foundry article confirming that LA Noire was actually filmed in LA, not Australia

• BusinessWire: Rockstar Australia formed out of Video Games Deluxe, Brendan McNamara’s follow-up studio to Team Bondi

• Lee’s Vectormen-Themed Armored Core mech

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AKA “All Kinds of Threatening and Uncomfortable”; “Korean Nonsense Aside”, “Second-Hand Embarrassment Simulator”,  “It’s Great If You Like It”, “A Hard Sell”, “Magic Words, Funny Man”, “Find Work in the Gutter, Swine”

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:00) — An exercise in dating your episode without the news

(00:53) — Lawrence plays “Christmas” game Yakuza 2

• (07:10) — Let’s Talk About Kaoru
• (10:51) — Koreans Nonsense
• (14:24) — Jumping the Tiger-Infested Golden Osaka Castle
• (20:57) — Yakuza’s Dilemma: Learn Mahjong or Stab a Guy
• (28:00) — Lawrence experiences GAME TOURISM
• (36:18) — The Final Sequence / Preparing for a Summer Game

(48:11) — Lee Plays Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1 & 2

• (57:49) — The genius of Soul Reaver 1’s design
• (01:07:54) — …and some problems
• (01:11:19) — Raziel, video game’s greatest ponce / What a world
• (01:19:05) — Soul Reaver 2 is an exercise in refinement (for better and worse)
• (01:23:22) — Too busy enjoying this movie to hate this combat
• (01:28:37) — Endings and Hennigs

(01:28:37) — Balatro Suckers from the EA Mines

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Links

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AKA “Millennial Coded”; “The Transgender Speedrunning Microgenre”; “Permit a Blemish”; “We Must Imagine Sisyphus is Happy”; “Hang Out with the Ghost of PlayStation”; “A Lick of Racism”, “Whip out a Hemingway”

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

• (00:00) — 2025 and why
• (00:53) — The best kind of news
• (02:53) — Lawrence plays Celeste, progenitor of the Transgender Speedrunning Microgenre (other examples to follow)
• (18:48) — “Do I like Precision Platformers?”
• (30:21) — Lee’s 2024 GOTY runner-ups and dismissals
• (36.50) — GOTY #3: Sonic x Shadow Generations
• (52.00) — GOTY #2: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• (01:11.55) — GOTY #1: LA Noire
• (01:20.10) — The Roy Earle Dickensian Canon

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Links

Lee’s Astro Bot review 

Lee’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth review

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AKA Artistic Nudity

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:00) — Sorry, we’re cutting news; this is all you get

(00:40) — Lawrence plays Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

(29:42) — Vectora Tomorrow

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Links

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AKA “Do It Again, But Better,” “How He Seethes,” “Into The Nexus,” Rock and Stone, Etc, Etc…” “A Real Pride Month Humble Bundle Vibe,” “Load Up Your Spikes”

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

Sonic CD Japanese soundtrack excerpt by Naofumi Hataya and Masafumi Ogata // SEGA

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Segments:

(00:00) — Guess That Metacritic Score!

(02:25) — Game #1: SteamWorld Build

(06:53) — Game #2: The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

(10:16) — Game #3: Calico

(15:25) — Game #4: Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion

(18:29) — Game #5: Bluey The Videogame

(21:55) — Game #6: Persona 5 Tactica

(25:16) — Game #7: The Walking Dead Destinies

(28:15) — Game #8: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

(31:00) — Game #9: Call of Duty Modern Warfare III

(33:50) — Game #10: Teardown

(37:00) — Palmtree Panic / Zelda CD-i

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Links

Bluey the Videogame review by Dave Ozzy

https://www.thexboxhub.com/bluey-the-videogame-review/

SteamWorld Build

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUGgYbxycko 

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDehcsJNyl0 

Calico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJJAcrcOcRs 

Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUv7BGUJ5gE 

Persona 5 Tactica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqAZqsAQ_UY 

The Walking Dead Destinies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TIsWc9f140 

Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zmiw3Qxmg0 

Call of Duty Modern Warfare III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHDEDDrGYvo 

Teardown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdqJEvia4mQ 

Link: Faces of Evil ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imlyVV0yYKo 

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AKA “Some People Just Like Volume,” “The Apocalypse Now 4-Hour Cut of Games,” “Utterly Deranged,” “An Anger High,” “Say Goodbye, Toes!” 

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Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:00) — Lee reviews Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

(01:42) — What is Danganronpa/What is Danganronpa V3 Killing Harmony?

(08:47) — Danganronpa V3 is the Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots of Visual Novels

(10:08) — MGS4 is Lee’s favorite Metal Gear Solid game(15:15) — Why Danganronpa V3 isn’t Lee’s favorite one

(20:19) — Is Danganronpa V3 Good?(22:26) — Is Danganronpa V3 Bad?

(24:14) — Do you need to watch the anime Danganronpa 3? / Is Danganronpa V3 Great?

(25:44) — A Brief Trip through Pretentious games

(31:44) — Danganronpa V3 as “Pretentious”

(34:48) — Will Lee crave Danganronpa ever again?

(37:57) — One more for the road

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Links

https://danganronpa.fandom.com/wiki/Danganronpa_V3:_Killing_Harmony

^ Danganronpa V3 Fandom page (it comes up in the show)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqnz-7iQbY

^ Jonathan Blow crying in a dark room about Soulja Boy misunderstanding Braid

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AKA “Strange Amorphous Masses,” “Crunchy Military Hi-Tech Thrillers,” “Fussy Stealth,” “Tidy Away Your Bodies,” 

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Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:00) — Lawrence plays Rock, Paper, Scissors with CGP Grey

(06:05) — Lawrence plays Splinter Cell

(11:18) — The “Metal Gear Solid 2” killer

(14:03) — “The most post-9/11 game to ever have been made”

(15:53) — Gameplay: “Fussy Stealth”

(21:50) — Splinter Cell is “Bizarrely Dark”

(26.34) — How HD is this HD re-release

(29:40) — Sam Fisher: What’s his deal?

(34:31) — Is Splinter Cell important?

(36:30) — What’s the political message? Is there one?

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Links

Can You Win This One-In-A-Million Game? by CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWQmZXYd74

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AKA “Strange Amorphous Masses,” “Crunchy Military Hi-Tech Thrillers,” “Fussy Stealth,” “Tidy Away Your Bodies,” 

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Hosted by Lee Brady (leebrady.bsky.social // truetrophies.com) and Lawrence (vm-lawrence.bsky.social)

Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:00) — Lawrence plays Rock, Paper, Scissors with CGP Grey

(06:05) — Lawrence plays Splinter Cell

(11:18) — The “Metal Gear Solid 2” killer

(14:03) — “The most post-9/11 game to ever have been made”

(15:53) — Gameplay: “Fussy Stealth”

(21:50) — Splinter Cell is “Bizarrely Dark”

(26.34) — How HD is this HD re-release

(29:40) — Sam Fisher: What’s his deal?

(34:31) — Is Splinter Cell important?

(36:30) — What’s the political message? Is there one?

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Links

Can You Win This One-In-A-Million Game? by CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWQmZXYd74

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AKA “Half of Nobody,” “The Worm Turns,” “Braying of the Farm Animals”

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Music by Lee Brady

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Segments:

(00:00) — Total Carnage

(01:45) — Follow-Up (Memories of Windows 95 Games Sampler 2; Things Lawrence never warmed up to)

(14:00) — The News

(15:37) — Corporate Consolidation Cubbyhole

(17:08) — The Game Awards Nominations; a timely conversation

(24:54) — PlayStation incentivizes Piracy

(25:25) — The Legend of Zelda Movie: What It Might Be About, Who It’s For, And Why You Shouldn’t Care

(35:02) — Sega’s Big Rovio Plans Finally Unveiled!!! // Yakuza should take a shot at GTA

(38:08) — The Assassin’s Creed Black Friday advertisement

(43:53) — How to ruin TellTale Games’ day

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Links

Windows 95 Game Sampler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyi7hGqQ48

TGA Q&A with Geoff Keighley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00EUUMeGVyU

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