The Casual Hour

Episode #489 – Metroidvania Double Feature, Fire Emblem DLC Drops, and the Road to Game of the Year    Chase may still be chipping away at Fire Emblem, but at least Bobby’s got new games to talk about, like new Metroidvania titles Well Dweller and Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse. Plus, we run down what’s on our backlogs to get to before GOTY time. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour!...

Episode #488– Dynasty Warriors 3 Rides Again, Control Resonant Warps New York, and Your October Games Preview   The leaves are changing and the games are flowing. It must be October, and that means it’s time for our monthly preview breaking down all the new releases. Plus, Bobby’s flexing his powers in Control Resonant while Chase gets hit with a shot of nostalgia courtesy of Dynasty Warriors 3 Co...

Episode #487– Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Puts Chase Through the Calendar Grind, and Blood Dungeon Bones Us Up  Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is out, and as Chase’s most anticipated game of the year, he unsurprisingly has a lot to say. But Bobby has also dipped his toe into this entry of the series, so we get to have a full conversation about it…right after hearing about the new Messhof game,...

Episode #486 – The Blood of Dawnwalker Sinks Its Teeth In, Peace Walker Comes Home, and We Get Schooled on Classroom Gaming  Bobby and Chase go back to school, and talk about the games we played in the classrooms of our youth. From specific Oregon Trail editions to flash games in computer labs, we reminisce about the games that made school fun. All that and more on this edition of The Casual Hour!...

Episode #484 – Star Wars Zero Company, a Zelda-Stuffed Direct, and the Most Stacked September We've Ever Covered  We’re back from a break, and so much has happened that we decided to do a double episode! In the first half, we give our reactions to the new Star Wars Zero Company tactics game, and break down the Zelda and Nintendo Directs. Then we preview an absolutely stacked month of September...

Episode #484 – Twenty More Zelda Items, and the Master Sword Still Isn't Moving We’re back for round two of the Zelda 40th anniversary tier list, sorting twenty more items from the Biggoron's (or is it Big O’ Ron?) Sword to the Sheikah Slate, with Chase fighting Bobby on the Master Sword being the top tier S item. They also break down their predictions for theNintendo Direct before diving...

Episode #483 – Zelda turns 40, so Bobby made Chase rank 40 items with him (and only got through 23) Did you forget it’s Zelda’s 40th birthday this year? So did Nintendo! But Bobby didn’t, which is why we’re putting 40 classic Zelda items on a tier list. Bottles, bombs, boots and more. And this is just part 1 on this edition of The Casual Hour!  ⏱ TIMESTAMPS THE SETUP 00:00:28 – Intro & Welcome...

[Episode #482] — Little Debbie tournament brackets, Tears of Metal, and Bobby's Fire Emblem intervention for Chase After a little snack talk, the Causal Crew gets to the gaming in this whatcha been playin’ episode. Bobby’s fixing things up in ReStory, defending them in Omen and ripping them apart in Tears of Metal, all while Chase revisits an old friend in Fire Emblem: Awakening. It’s all here...

00:00:28 – Intro 00:04:26 – ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs  00:19:01 – Pokémon Gen1Recomp 00:33:48 – Big Walk 01:07:28 – Wrap-Up & Socials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… The Casual Crew’s got Big Walk fever, and we just gotta let it out. See why we think this game has real GOTY potential. Plus, Bobby’s tink...

00:00:28 – Intro: new retro handhelds & show outline 00:03:25 – Kicking off the July games recap 00:03:57 – Chase's July picks 00:07:10 – Bobby's July picks  00:14:08 – PlayStation Plus freebies  00:18:52 – August releases begin: Beast of Reincarnation (Aug 4) 00:23:47 – Big Walk (Aug 4) 00:29:47 – D-Hopper and Zero Racers hit Virtual Boy service (Aug 4) 00:32:28 – Super Robot Wars Y A...

00:00:28 – Intro 00:01:27 – Bobby's Android handheld obsession 00:04:41 – Show Rundown 00:06:11 – Decompiled and recompiled games explained 00:13:15 – Pokemon Red and Blue decompile plus the Dramatic Shapes voxel mod 00:18:10 – Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remastered impressions 00:19:17 – Palworld hits 1.0 00:21:37 – Super Mario RPG remake 00:30:24 – The Diofield Chronicle 00:38:02 – Splat...

00:00:28 – Intro & Welcome: 10 Years of The Casual Hour 00:03:11 – The 2016 Game of the Year Rewind Concept 00:06:33 – Lost Lists & Building the Show Archive 00:09:43 – Chase's Original 2016 Handheld Top Ten (Gamers on the Go) 00:11:53 – Bobby's Original 2016 Top Ten 00:14:46 – The Casual Hour's Combined 2016 Top Three 00:15:48 – Cicis Pizza Memories & Early Show History 00...

00:00:28 – Intro & Bobby's Handheld Shopping Spree  00:08:02 – Mina the Hollower: Credits Rolled on a Game of the Year Contender 00:10:50 – TerraTech Legion: Vampire Survivors With Wheels and Guns 00:20:38 – Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes Gets One Last Chance 00:26:03 – Everybody's Golf Hotshots: Controls, Cameras & No Don Pappas 00:55:27 – Microsoft Layoffs, id Software & t...

00:00:28 – Intro  00:05:27 – Starfox 00:23:13 – Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes 00:34:12 – June Recap 00:38:27 – The Free Stuff 00:42:29 – July Games Preview 00:43:51 – Doom: The Dark Ages DLC 00:47:16 – Moonlight Peaks, Backyard Baseball & Granblue Fantasy Relink DLC 00:52:08 – Assassin's Creed Black Flag 00:55:21 – Palworld 1.0 00:56:18 – Heave Ho! 2, The Mermaid Mask, Pupper Geist, Mo...

00:00:28 – Intro 00:02:16 – The Adventures of Elliot 00:17:31 – Fire Emblem Life of Saros 00:19:56 – Deep Dive: The AYN Thor & the Emulation Handheld Era 00:24:18 – Why Now? The Industry Is in Trouble 00:30:41 – A Brief History of Janky Emulation Devices 00:35:04 – Build Quality Levels Up: Analogue, OLED & the New Retroid 00:36:38 – Price Gouging, Tariffs & Insane Storage Costs 00:40:2...

00:00:28 – Intro 00:00:56 – StarFox (Switch 2 Demo) 00:10:44 – 007 First Light 00:11:20 – Mina the Hollower 00:11:51 – Voidling Bound 00:20:14 – Sangokushi BOND  00:29:23 – River City Saga, Jeanne d'Arc, and Three Kingdoms Deep Cuts 00:32:05 – Fire Emblem: Life of Seiros  00:41:45 – AYN Thor 00:42:16 – Xbox Trouble 00:48:28 – Bobby's Xbox Rant: Game Pass, Helix, and the Future of the Conso...

00:00:28 – Intro & Jeff Keighley's Crushed Velvet Era 00:04:05 – How We're Covering 1,000+ Games 00:08:21 – PlayStation State of Play Kickoff 00:08:47 – Dynasty Warriors 3 Remastered 00:10:34 – Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve 00:13:01 – Murray: Three-Player Co-op Yokai Action 00:14:31 – Marvel's Wolverine 00:17:41 – The New God of War: Playing as Faye 00:22:23 – Summer Game Fest: Cuph...

00:00:28 – Intro 00:05:47 – Mina the Hollower 00:21:56 – Fire Emblem: Life of Sorrows rom hack 00:34:25 – May Recap 00:37:42 – May PlayStation Plus Titles 00:40:17 – June Releases: Dear and Boy 00:41:27 – Fate Keeper 00:42:55 – Donkey Kong 64  00:44:00 – River City Saga: Journey to the West 00:46:27 – NBA the Run 00:48:12 – Void Bound 00:50:39 – Destiny 2: The Final Update 00:51:18 – Star Seeker:...

00:00:28 – Intro 00:00:51 – Weekend Recap 00:02:51 – The Mandalorian and Grogu: Why Was This a Movie? 00:05:51 – Destiny Slides Into Maintenance Mode 00:16:11 – Steam Deck Price Hikes & the State of the Industry 00:18:34 – Forza Horizon 6 00:28:01 – Super Robot Wars Y 00:35:23 – 007 First Light First Impressions 00:48:10 – Snowboard Champion 00:55:46 – Dynasty Warriors 3  01:00:05 – Wrap-Up --...

00:00:28 – Intro & Welcome 00:04:00 – Deep Dive: Get to Know Me Grid 00:06:29 – Short Game 00:12:40 – Based on Something Else 00:19:10 – Art Style 00:23:56 – Sports Game (Non-Racing) 00:29:44 – Game You Spent the Most Time With 00:36:35 – Rental as a Kid 00:42:07 – Non-Sports Racing Game 00:47:19 – Most Overrated 00:53:43 – Best Multiplayer 00:58:01 – Lazy Weekend Game 01:01:59 – Not Usually M...

00:00:28 – Intro  00:01:03 – Steam Controller Impressions 00:03:29 – Pokemon Pokopia 00:05:21 – Pragmata 00:06:15 – Dusk: Native PC/Android Port of Twilight Princess 00:08:07 – Mixtape 00:21:21 – Chase Gets a Thor 00:25:55 – Burnout 3 Takedown 00:33:00 – Pokemon Yellow Cramorant Edition 00:42:33 – Outro and Next Week's Plans 00:56:15 – Sign-Off -------------------------------------------------...

00:00:28 – Intro & Star Fox Direct Breakdown 00:12:07 – Pokemon Luminescent Platinum ROM Hack 00:18:39 – 30 Flights of Loving 00:28:42 – April Monthly Picks Recap 00:31:50 – Chase's Backlog Roulette Spin: Grim Fandango 00:33:46 – May Monthly Preview Begins 00:34:08 – Motor Slice 00:36:11 – Waxhead 00:39:57 – Alabaster Dawn 00:43:00 – Mixtape 00:45:07 – Outbound 00:46:32 – Nitro Gen Omega 00:51...

00:00:28 – Intro & Welcome, Episode 467 00:02:16 – Far Far West (Early Access) 00:13:15 – Vampire Crawlers 00:32:27 – Monster Hunter Stories 3 00:36:32 – Pokemon TCG Generations ROM Hack 00:44:11 – Sony's PS4/PS5 Digital License Check-In Controversy 00:49:17 – Sony First Party Games Leaving PC and the Exclusivity Debate 00:55:55 – Xbox Under Asha: Brand Changes, Game Pass Pricing, and Project...

00:00:28 – Intro, Recap & Tornado Story 00:03:00 – Pragmata 00:13:19 – Quick Hits: Vampire Crawlers & Titanium Courts 00:14:35 – KOTOR Post-Mortem 00:27:34 – Deep Dive Part 2: Pokemon Pikachu Pedometer 00:44:38 – Nintendo's History of Making People Move 00:49:48 – Tamagotchi Revival? 00:52:12 – Outro ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ T...

00:00:28 – Intro & Welcome 00:01:50 – Replaced 00:13:20 – Monster Hunter Stories 3 00:23:44 – Deep Dive Intro 00:26:41 – Deep Dive: Pokemon Pikachu Tamagotchi & Pokéwalker 00:28:53 – Tamagotchi History & the Origins of Digimon 00:40:42 – A Tornado!? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Week on The Casual Hour… A little tornado decide...