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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross join up to talk about the first half of Suikoden II.

It's Summer RPG time, and this year we turn our attention toward Suikoden II. It's probably known best nowadays for being incredibly rare and expensive, but there's so much more that makes this game remarkable. The tense struggle between the Kingdom of Highland and the City State of Jowston is memorable, and so are its key players. On the play side, several different genres are represented here, and greatly simplified.

For this episode, we play up through Two River. Next episode, we'll finish the game out.

Before you listen to the episode, please watch this trailer to get in the proper mindset (thanks, [@AllisonByProxy](twitter.com/allisonbyproxy)!).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNgjIoakzUk

• [Starman](www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3WtvzmKCQQ)

• [Johnny Five Aces](knowyourmeme.com/memes/zybourne-clock)

• [Stonewall Jackson](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson)

• [Beyond the Beyond](www.gamespite.net/toastywiki/index…-BeyondTheBeyond)

• [House Atreides](www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPNfgXBlzm0)

• [Beforeiplay](beforeiplay.com/index.php?title=Main_Page)

• [Forest Maze Music](www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkailb3xcTI)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.

• [Lowtax LP](www.youtube.com/watch?v=qISSdqMJF…-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ)

• [American Science and Surplus](www.sciplus.com/)

• [Disappointed](www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gC1GiSDDA)

• [Covered Bridge Video](youtu.be/WyO18one8fU)

• [Carmageddon](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross wheez Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.

It’s Solid Snake’s tiniest adventure yet! Returning to an old place to fight an old enemy, this unjustly forgotten entry in the series returns to Metal Gear’s roots on the MSX. 2D stealth is great. This game defies what you’d expect from the Gameboy Color.

• Timequake: en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Timequake

• Beastie Boys doing Echolalia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE

• Echolalia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echolalia

• Hitman iOs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwYjM8lMSuU

• Weasing Juice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1hEKqZz-OY

• 21 and 24: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfjj7Y9N27c

• Multiplicity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH2XDPI5664

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Cave Story.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross plumb the depths of Cave Story.

It’s a story that will make you feel like you’ve wasted your life. A while back, a single man dedicated five years to singlehandedly crafting one of the most beloved modern platformers. Oh, and he also fired the starting pistol on the indie game movement as we know it. But excuse us, we’re just talking into microphones forever.

• Speedrun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqCSJyFOaaw

• The Diving Bell and The Butterfly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G69Zh7YIg8c

• Super Meatboy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJsnXRb_Es

• Hotline Miami: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWnr3A2YNg

• 1,001 Spikes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0OWjhHTz-M

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within.

• Reunification Day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunification_Day

• Vacation Movies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rMcRJVY1-0

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Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Will Owens sniff around Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within.

FMV games are a bizarre evolutionary dead end, but we found the very best one to give the WOFF! treatment. Gabriel Knight is back on the case, in full living color, hunting down a Bavarian werewolf and learning a little bit about his own sexuality. We can take solace in one fact: We can’t mangle German any worse than Gabriel Knight himself.

Special thanks to our Kickstarter backer Will Owens for suggesting this awesome game AND joining us to talk about it.

• Lieber in Naked Gun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJhGfjW1-fA

• Backlog Killer: duckfeed.tv/backlogkiller/

• Deinterlace patch: www.gog.com/forum/gabriel_knigh…erlace_patch_on_gk2

• MiB: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOkNZK-m4A

• Bill’s Cousin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eyU7qAJ8zg

• The Cave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Gis_JqFRU

• Chapter 5 intro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4_aw1Vfjvo

• Never ending Opera Scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE0Gz_GNCQ8

• David Lynch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

• The Complete Under a Killing Moon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbpQxxtH0Bc

• Moebius: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jII-ivS_7N8

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your thoughts on Crackdown.

• Patton Oswalt on Brian Dennehy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=boTKLuI7nzM

• Infamous: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-NBsSfxH30

• Saint’s Row 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT03ezSnVL8

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross kick it, you know, just talkin’ ‘bout Crackdown.

With the announcement and release of the Xbox One, the Xbox 360 is now just retro enough for us to not feel bad covering it. What better place to start than the pack-in that came with the Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta? Crackdown is simple and great.

• Davy Jones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgVfAkIOTOo

• Stanley Parable Hall of Demos: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/13…parable-demo

• Crackdown 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeyBGbJRRe8

• Mercenaries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxRSD5aT4JU

• Twilight Zone Kid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZtNokI8wE

• Busey is Holly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgBMgQ28HJM

• Blue’s Clues Dude: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzCBxQEDz24

• Dance Hall Days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xpJRwIA-Q

• Kick! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyk9PPBMTQ

• Pumped Up Kicks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ

• Here it is, what you’ve been waiting for: www.youtube.com/user/ulillillia

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your thoughts on X-Men Legends II.

• The most insane thing ever. Watch this: shakefire.com/video/spider-man-t…e-show-performance

• U Talkin’ U2 To Me? www.earwolf.com/show/u-talkin-u2-to-me/

• Ecks Vs Sever: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8InYkHIP54w

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