On this week's Diversion: Matt's finally, truly, maybe(?) out of things to say about the Paper Mario series...for now. And then we spend like 40 minutes going line by line down the Xbox Summer Game Fest Showcase before declaring Visions of Mana the best looking game trailer from this past week anyway. Let's get to it.

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Our break music this week was Wonderful World of Wool 2, composed by Tomoya Tomita and Misaki Asada for the Yoshi's Woolly World soundtrack.