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A new season means new challenges! Murph is off to a remote corner of the world researching new forms of podcasting and astral projection, Shacknews's TJ Denzer has joined the fray to talk to Bro about a variety of topics. Mostly? Mega Man. Time stamps to come.

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It's time to portal and chortle with the Daydreamcast as we look at the iconic duology of Portals 1 and 2. Both games set the internet on fire with their space-bending puzzles and lolrandom humor that formed the bedrock of 2010s meme culture and indie game design, eventually entering the hallowed halls of those "Greatest Games of All Time" lists. But which Portal portals superior? Is there something Murph would like us to know about Portal 2? Tune in an drop out with this double-caked up episode of the Daydreamcast! 1:15 - Murph caught COVID at PAX Watcha Playin' 03:50 - Silksong (2025) 12:25 - Firmament (2023) 24:00 -Riven Remake (2024) Variety Minute 42:50 - Narrative Puzzle Games Games of the Week 57:20 - Portal (2007) 1:16:00 - Portal 2 (2011) 1:48:30 - Plugs & Farewells

Brogan has been splattered into red paste on the wall and Murph doesn't know what to do about that so he calls in the Scream Team of Will and Thomas for the annual Halloween episode. This year we're leaving behind the tank controls and fixed cameras for visceral gunplay and bullet time as we look at F.E.A.R. A meticulous FPS left behind in the seventh generation that treads the line between John Woo action and Japanese-style horror. 0:33 - The Scream Team Returns! (Minus Brogan) Watcha Playin 2:20 - Ninja Gaiden 4 (2025) 14:30 - Painkiller (2025) 26:16 - Voices of the Void 0.8 Update (2025) 35:45 - Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection (2025) Variety Minute 50:15 - What Will Next Year's Halloween Game Be? Game of the Week 1:08:00 - F.E.A.R (2005) 2:01:58 - Plugs and Farewells

Halloween season on the Daydreamcast kicks off with a late night double feature of occult action titles.The Crawling Man Brendan Hesse returns to talk about Diablo 1 and Symphony of the Night. Two games about battling the forces of hell with a arsenal of magic weapons are integral to the history of Video Games. While SotN went on to name an entire genre, Diablo 1 became largely overshadowed by it's successor. Do either of these titles deserve these legacies? Or are the nomenclatures and colloquialisms of gamer culture the scariest things of all?? 0:21 - Brendan's back and he's never read Goosebumps Watcha Playin' 01:42 - Final Fantasy Tactics - Ivalice Chronicles 27:30 - Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac (2025) 39:30 - OFF (2025) 45:30 - Baby Steps (2025) 55:45 - House of Necrosis (2025) Games of the Week 1:10:55 - Diablo (1997) 1:45:30 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997) 2:42:15 - Plugs and Farewells

Watcha Playin' 01:48 - Everdeep Aurora (2025) 06:33 - Many Night a Whisper (2025) 15:33 - Castle Crashers: Painter Boss Paradise (2025) 19:41 - The Myst Minute: Myst (2020) Variety Minute 31:00 - Detective Games Games of the Week 55:15 - Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) 1:24:24 - Plugs and Farewells

Today we're gonna get *weird*. Murph and Bro cover an obscure punk rock RPG Maker game called Hylics. This sonic tale of gibberish captures the mind with it's riffs on JRPG mechanics, stop-motion animation, and ethereal soundtrack. Bro and Murph survey it's wastelands to decode a method in it's madness, perhaps even losing themselves to it's zonked-out vibes. Watcha Playin' 01:56 - Hyper Chess (2025) 06:45 - The Eternal Cylinder (2022) 13:44 - TMNT: Shredder's Revenge-Radical Reptiles DLC (2024) 21:00 - Project Silverfish (2025) 30:36 - Metal Garden (2025) 35:42 - The Myst Minute: realMyst: Masterpiece Edition (2014) & Obduction (2016) Variety Minute 54:10 - "Weird" Games Games of the Week 1:12:21 - Hylics (2015) 1:42:45 - Plugs and Farewells

It's time to feel like podcasters talking about Arkham Asylum. Bro and Murph suit up to talk about one of the landmark games for licensed titles. The game that gave us years of Batman glazing. The game that invented the shorthands "Arkham Combat" and "Detective Vision." The game that makes you something something Batman. Does this comic book caper hold up, or do we need to memory-hole it like Three Jokers? Watcha Playin' 01:55 - Sulfur (2024) 11:08 - Decade (2025) 20:02 - Two Point Museum (2025) 30:39 - Sagat in SF6 (2025) Variety Minute 44:23 - Modern Metroidvanias Games of the Week 1:01:35 - Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) 1:44:33 - Plugs and Farewells

WHOOOO It's time for the GAUNTLET! DDC episodes are about to lay it on you thick! David joins us to discuss games (or lack thereof), Murph lays out the final numerical Myst Minute, and Brogan reminds Murph of his terrible Paper Mario takes. Intro 1:00 - David is back on the Pod and wants recommendations Watcha Playin' 04:50 - UFO 50 (2024) 14:01 - Hole (2024) 21:3.8 - Dead By Daylight: FNAF DLC (2025) 33:00 - Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (2025) 41:29 - The Myst Minute: Myst V: End of Ages (2005) Variety Minute 1:03:20 - Intentional Frustration in Games Games of the Week 1:22:50 - Super Paper Mario (2007) 1:58:54 - Plugs and Farewells

It's dangerous to go alone, so Murph and Brogan call in Brendan and HPRshredder for a retro head-to-head! 1986 introduced the world to a green tunic boy named Link and his quest for Princess Zelda, and 1987 introduced us to that exact same duo but this time from a side-scrolling perspective! Which reigns supreme: The Original Article, or the Radical Reinvention? Intro 1:01 - Welcome HPRshredder to the Pod! Watcha Playin' 04:57 - The Switch 2 8:30 - Mario Kart World (2025) 15:25 - Wind Waker on Switch Online (2002) 24:15 - Street Fighter II: Super Turbo (1994) 29:31 - Ao Oni: Horror of the Blueberry Onsen (2025) 40:54 - The Binding of Isaac: Repentance (2021) 49:20 - Dark Souls Remastered (2018) 58:16 - Metro Gravity (2025) 1:02:18 - The Myst Minute: Myst IV: Revelations (2004) Games of the Week 1:25:50 - The Legend of Zelda (1986) 1:50:00 - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987) 2:28:10 - Plugs and Farewells

It's a soft reboot! Not really, we're just experimenting with intros. It's just the boys today, Murph and Bro. We shoot the breeze about Doom The Dark Ages, the new media outlet named Skybox, and Murph's Myst minute. Then, we talk about the crazy week of non-E3 shows (that have already happened but did not happen at the time of recording, so laugh at us for bad predictions). timestamps to come.

Two DDC episodes in one day! Joe joins Bro and Murph to discuss Sonic the Hedgehog! Intro 0:33 - Welcome Joe Richards to the Pod! Watcha Playin' 05:01 - Clair Obscura: Expedition 33 (2025) 13:48 - Haste: Broken Worlds (2025) 23:05 - Xenoblade Chronicles: X Remastered (2025) 31:34 - Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (2025) 43:01 - Monster Prom: Monster Con (2025) 53:10 - Lost Records: Bloom and Rage (2025) 1:02:30 - The Myst Minute: Myst III: Exile (2001) The Variety Minute 1:13:50 - The Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise Game of the Week 1:33:36 - Sonic Adventure (1998) 2:23:40 - Plugs and Farewells

HALOOOOO 3! Will and Abram join us to analyze this absolute banger of a first person shooter. Watcha Playin' 02:19 - The Talos Principal: Reawakened (2025) 12:53 - Blue Prince (2025) 28:00 - Gnomes (2025) 25:24 - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Remake (2024) 47:58 - Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (2025) 1:03:10 - Look Outside (2025) 1:08:31 - The Myst Minute: Riven (1997); Myst Novels Game of the Week 1:15:32 - Halo 3 (2007) 2:23:05 - Plugs and Farewells Check out Will's new venture SKYBOX: https://skyboxcritics.com/2025/05/01/welcome-to-skybox/ Check out Abram's periodical: https://www.lostincult.co.uk/

It is time for a masochistic masterpiece. A game of controversy and friction, freelancer Jarrett Green has joined us to cover one of the most interesting RPGs of the PS2 era. Murph talks his Myst minute, which mysteriously has no Myst games. Instead he talks about piss and drowned gods. Jarrett has played and reviewed the recent Assassin's Creed game, and Bro has been obsessed with a golden idol and some sicko itch.io dungeon crawler. 00:33 - Introducing Jarrett Green to the Pod! Watcha Playin' 03:30 - Assassin's Creed: Shadows (2025) 13:31 - Rise of the Golden Idol (2024) 17:35 - Age of Mythology: The Immortal Pillars (2025) 25:24 - No-Skin (2025) 30:10 - The Myst Minute: Pyst (1996); Drowned God (1996) The Variety Minute 49:00 - New Game+ and Replay Mechanics Game of the Week 1:06:09 - Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (2002) 1:41:24 - Plugs and Farewells Link to Jarrett's zine: https://jarrettgreen.gumroad.com/l/gevpl