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THIS WEEK: Peter descends into a volcano to witness the ultimate showdown between Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima with Rio Hamamoto's work in Tekken 7 and Joe braves the terrifying natural elements to stop a potential nuclear terrorist attack in Disaster: Day of Crisis.

THIS WEEK: Joe puts up his boxing gloves to reboot Nintendo's original fighting franchise on Wii in Punch-Out!! (2009) and Peter perceives lies in the courtroom with a magical bracelet to discover why a famous lawyer got disbarred with Toshihiko Horiyama's work in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

THIS WEEK: Joe jumps between dimensions to stop a cyborg invasion using roguelike elements with Steve London's work in Star Renegades.

THIS WEEK: Joe retrieves the logs of a derelict spaceship while hearing suspicious stories from two AI companions with Isaac Schankler's work in Analogue: A Hate Story and Peter races into the Blue Falcon to show off power of Mode 7 on Super Nintendo in F-Zero.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter present their combined list of the top 10 best game soundtracks of 2023

THIS WEEK: Peter prepares for the twilight of the gods across each of the nine realms all throughout a continuous camera shot with Hozier's work in God of War Ragnarök.

THIS WEEK: Joe works as a physically augmented UNATCO agent to recover stolen shipments of a vaccine to a pandemic known as the Gray Death with Alexander Brandon's work in Deus Ex.

THIS WEEK: Peter collects S-K-A-T-E letters while pulling off sick skateboard combos with Brian Bright's work in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Joe flexes his inner bodybuilder with the sidescrolling shooter featuring fighting game inputs in Ai Cho Aniki.

THIS WEEK: Peter returns home to Possum Springs to hang out with friends and uncover the town's darkest secret with Scott Benson's work in Night in the Woods.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter take a Thanksgiving break from dissecting game soundtracks and the critical five songs within them, in order to answer some questions that have been asked by listeners

THIS WEEK: Joe faces the forces of the Masked Circle as rumors in Sumaru are coming true with Masaki Kurokawa's work in Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Peter battles the sentient weapons of the Smithy Gang with their takeover of Star Road and the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

THIS WEEK: Joe vanquishes the Vile Four as a knight while watering down the popular JRPG formula to appeal to a new audience with Ryuji Sasai's work in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.