The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, we are taking an adventure through Hyrule. After a month of focus on the latest game in The Legend of Zelda franchise we conclude with a broader conversation around the series as a whole. We find out which character we most resemble, select the best mask in its darkest game, and cast our vote for the most important live action role to come. Matt prepares another thril...

This week on The Free Cheese, we conquer with power. Our discussion on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom concludes with a look at the game's story and the direction it sets for the future of the franchise. We reflect on six months with the game and rank it on The List.

This week on The Free Cheese, discovery grants us wisdom. Our discussion on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom continues with a look at the game's crafting system, the return of temples to the franchise, and how combat has changed since Breath of the Wild. We dive deep into the underground and discussion of the game's sense of exploration.

This week on The Free Cheese, courage guides us forward. We take our first steps into The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom by reflecting on its predecessor, Breath of the Wild. Then, we discuss the opening hours of our time with Tears of the Kingdom.

This week on The Free Cheese, congratulations on your mansion! Luigi finds his vacuum in this GameCube launch title as he seeks the whereabouts of his older brother Mario. We suck up ghosts one by one until we find the true horror behind the mansion.

This week on The Free Cheese, trick or treat! We're stacking up the sequel to Costume Quest against The List in this broken age of double Fine references in a single sentence. We'll dress up as werewolves, candy corn, wizards, and dead presidents to bring Halloween back to life.

This week on The Free Cheese, the game where HE comes home! In celebration of its 40th anniversary, we're adding the killer video game Halloween, based on the film of the same name, to The List. We'll see how it stacks against the film it's influenced by and find out why the ESRB turned out to be a necessity. 

This week in The Free Cheese, do you like thrill rides? We reveal the true reason behind our recording of Episode 498 earlier this year and add its remake to The List . We discuss what's changed in Capcom's remake of the game that defined third-person action and look at where the Resident Evil series is going. 

This week on The Free Cheese, bats don't like their picture taken. It's 1989 and Capcom just released the first survival horror video game, paralleling the film of the same name, Sweet Home. The game would later go on to inspire Resident Evil and remains an entertaining first step into the genre. We discuss the game, the film, and rank it on The List .

This week on The Free Cheese, what did you learn? We chronicle the rough timeline of educational software and share key lessons we've learned in video games. 

This week on The Free Cheese, pata pata pata pon.  After a decade of successful games and growing imitations, FromSoftware took some departures with its formula while holding onto key aspects of the games it had been making. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice introduces the player to a new world, one with a story and cutscenes to back it, putting them in control of Wolf on his journey for redemption. 

This week on The Free Cheese, we're preinstalled with every CompUSA purchase! We're here to guide the great frog king on his journey to match the colors of three or more balls at a time. Chasing combo chains and gap bonuses, we find out where Zuma Deluxe ranks on The List.

This week on The Free Cheese, summer is over. Are you afraid of the dentist? Have you been helping the local newspaper find headlines? You might just be Shinnosuke Nohara on summer vacation. We play and rank Millennium Kitchen's spiritual successor to Boku no Natsuyasumi, finding the secret to summer along the way.

This week on The Free Cheese, trophy unlocked. We pluck from our past and revive a few of our favorite segments from last year. First, we run through a series of This or That themed around the games we played in August. Then, we use random name generation to help us find sequels to games on our list without one. Finally, we try to guess a game on The List based on a series of brand new trophies cr...

This week on The Free Cheese, eighteen inch nails? id Software makes another appearance on The List with its sequel to Quake. Quake II takes the series in a new direction and we discuss how the different landscape influences the gameplay and our overall impression of the first id Software game without John Romero.

This week on The Free Cheese, so is he still waiting? We're going back to high school, or going back to someone's high school this week to find out why the children are disappearing. We learn the secrets that await us within Leafmore High and figure out which one of the five of us knows how to run.

This week on The Free Cheese, Cryptid Kombat - Coming this Fall. After sharing some local horror icons, we wander through the woods to find ourselves in Simogo's Year Walk. Released on multiple platforms since 2013, we discuss the game and how it takes advantage of the unique properties of each platform it called home. We talk about its lasting impact and of course, rank it on The List.

This week on The Free Cheese, congratulations Gunpei Yokoi! Our second Console Ranking episode adds ten additional consoles to the list, many of which we've never held before. How do they stack up against our favorites? Tune in and find out.

This week on The Free Cheese, here comes a new challenger. Street Fighter 6 returns with a new entry, ready to reinvigorate longtime fans and create a new generation along the way. We talk about our Street Fighter history, fighting games, and break down the new modes and features before ranking it against the rest of the games on The List.

This week on The Free Cheese, The Empire Strikes Back. Long before you could play your favorite characters in free-to-play video games, developers created movie and television show tie-in games that often strayed far enough from the source to become their own thing entirely. We take a look at one of the attempts at recapturing the magic of  The Empire Strikes Back for the home console and see how...

This week on The Free Cheese, anyone who says the subway is dangerous... We watch a comic book come to life in 2007's The Darkness and see how it holds up sixteen years later. Playing as Jackie Estacado, we wield The Darkness to enact revenge in New York City.

This week on The Free Cheese, Marc is a WeiNeR. Following up on our episode covering Rogue earlier this year, we watch the genre evolve on the Sega Genesis with—sorry, taking a break to hula dance—ToeJam & Earl. We run away from chickens with mortars, evil ice cream trucks, and herds of nerds as we search for ten ship parts that will help us to escape doom on Earth.

This week on The Free Cheese, how many eggs? As we close out the month of June, we discuss our Game of the Year so far and share updates on what we're looking most forward to playing in the remaining months. We return to some segments from Season 10 with a theme that keeps everything tied to our games for this month.

This week on The Free Cheese, where ballers come to play. We play basketball outside of the arena in this episode, revisiting one of the best basketball games ever made. We discuss what makes this game so unique and how NBA 2K has changed the sport entirely.

This week on The Free Cheese, is this a boat? Dotemu revives a classic with new characters and a new look for a new generation. We learn the art of windjamming and spend some time this week reminiscing on air hockey as we rank another game on The List.