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This time, we’re mercifully bringing you a shorter episode to follow our longest episode ever last week. We spend most of our time on a spoiler-filled discussion of Sucker for Love: Date to Die for, a horror/comedy/romance visual novel that has us both under its spell. Then we make a quick return to the land of sexist grifters to put a cap on the year’s dumbest gaming controversy surrounding Stellar Blade. Then Willa tells you about her favorite new way to play visual novels, and Robin tells you about some very good fish.
Timestamps
(1:00) Sucker for Love: Date to Die for makes monster fuckers of us all
(45:00) No one is coming to take your video game boobies away
(54:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?
Mentioned this week
Stellar Blade and the Male Gaze
Horror and Romance Make Surprisingly Good Partners In Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
This Horror Dating Sim Sets A Hot New Standard
Hades II Is The Kind Of Hot We Need Right Now
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This week, we’re starting an all new Girl Mode continuity as we dive into Grant Morrison’s apparently incredible run on X-Men. It’s unsurprisingly our longest episode ever, and Robin even gets so into the description of these comics she forgets to pester Willa for large portions of the show!
Follow along with what we’re looking at here!
Listen to parts one (Ep. 26), two (Ep. 38), and three (Ep. 56) of our X-Men series!
Timestamps
It’s all X-Men baby!
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This week, we’re rounding up a whole mess of news, from the good (female Hrothgar) to the bad (Willa has lost interest in Star Wars Outlaws) to the incredibly bizarre (Possibility Space closing in the strangest way possible). Plus, we decide who would be better at making Final Fantasy than Square Enix in a totally serious and well-informed segment.
Timestamps
(01:30) Get out of here, Han Solo
(08:50) Triple-i or, what if we made indie more like AAA?
(22:30) The Final Fantasy Garage Sale
(43:20) Hrothgirls!
(46:00) “Two tickets to Sifu, please” - No one ever
(49:40) Cataclysm Classic
(54:30) Possibility Space closes with a tantrum but we’re still not sure why
(58:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week?
Mentioned this week
Jeff Strain’s extremely bizarre statement on Possibility Space
Willa’s Harold Halibut review
Into the Aether
Robin tells you to play Between Horizons in more detail
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[CW: mentions of queerphobia, racism, and nazi imagery. We keep it as light as possible under the circumstances but please proceed with caution.]
Now that we’ve lured people in with Dragon’s Dogma 2 and sex stuff, we’re going back to what this podcast is really about — yelling about bigots! First, we talk about Rebekah Valentine’s recent reporting on Life is Strange developer Deck Nine, and how one shitty dude can make life miserable for a lot of people. Then we move on to Helldivers 2 and Signalis, two games that had a lot of fascists up in arms for very stupid reasons over the past week. I swear it’s not as much of a bummer as it sounds!
Timestamps
(00:15) Traditional episode 70 check-in
(08:00) Deck Nine’s very bad iceberg or, why we can’t have nice things
(28:20) Oh god, we have to talk about Mark Kern
(33:40) We get to talk about Signalis again, but at what cost?
(40:00) It’s hard to satirize fascism with fascists enjoying it because they’re too stupid to get that it’s satire
(58:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to (aside from tearing their hair out)?
Mentioned this week
How Many Clicks Does It Take To Get to the Center of Diablo?
How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine
Nick Calandra’s good thread about Mark Kern
For some Helldivers 2 players, the fascist role-play has gone too far
callie’s good thread about Signalis
See Zoe’s play!!!
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In our nice episode this week, we’re back to discussing Dragon’s Dogma 2 and other things that make us horny. Our Dragon’s Dogma talk is bookended by the new Ken Levine game that’s definitely not just the same thing as the other Ken Levine games and Robin talking about smut because we couldn't just act like adults and let it go unnoticed that this is episode 69.
Timestamps
(02:00) Why not give Ken Levine one more shot/player choice smoke and mirrors
(17:00) Play Nier Reincarnation while you still can
(19:15) Willa’s space lesbian harem update
(20:30) Dragon’s Dogma 2 is still a very good video game
(1:04:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to?
Mentioned this week
Judas First Details: How Ken Levine Is Building on BioShock With 'Narrative LEGOs'
The best quest in Dragons Dogma 2 turns my weird hobby of NPC stalking into an actual objective
I put nearly 100 hours into Dragon's Dogma 2 before I realised it was all just a tutorial for the Warfarer vocation
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Makes You Take Your Time, And That’s Great
Is outrage all that’s left?
Dragonsplague Is the Perfect Example of What Makes Dragon’s Dogma 2 Great
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Robin is finally alive again, and just in time to talk about the best game of the year. We start off with a little news blitz, from G/O Media still being a shitshow to a couple of devs saying things the industry absolutely needs to listen to at GDC. Then we settle in for about an hour of singing Dragon’s Dogma 2’s praises for what definitely won’t be the last time on this show.
Timestamps
(00:30) We’re alive!
(02:00) Jim Spanfeller is still a herb
(04:00) Planning our summer vacation in Eorzea
(7:15) Larian makes a good decision and Swen Vincke makes a good speech
(10:30) Xalavier Nelson Jr continues to be right in public
(11:45) Our vibes are not compatible with AI
(15:45) Simping for Dragon’s Dogma (and Miu)
(1:26:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to?
Mentioned this week
Read last week’s blog on Tumblr or Cohost!
Kotaku EIC Resigns Over New Editorial Edict
Eurogamer covers Swen Vincke’s GDC speech
Xalavier Nelson Jr’s Black in Gaming Indie Developer Award speech
Austin Walker’s Four Thoughts on Dragon’s Dogma
Players Aren’t Happy with Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Microtransactions
There Are Better Things to Be Mad At Than Dragon’s Dogma 2 Microtransactions
Blade Maidens
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