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Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn return after an amount of time Madelyn  does not wish to think about. Anastasia is back at the helm as the point of view character, but this route isn't done sidelining her yet! The route keeps gesturing at being about cooler things than what it is actually about, and reminding us how much better Zenn is while repeatedly being racist about him. There's...

Today on Evaludate:  Anastasia finally gets the point of view back, but her other love interests are still doing Lucien promo; we just don't have time to address the interpersonal ramifications of time loops in our time loop game; and if you're The Devil you have to tell me. Follow us: Tumblr Bluesky Content Warnings: Anti-black racism: 12:10 - 12:35 Suicide: 17:20 - 17:23, 19:04 - 19:18...

Today on Evaludate: Anastasia has left us alone at a party with her new boyfriend and his buddies, Lucien may only be alive because the witch is also fumbling through this, and Crius may be pushing for the throuple ending. Follow Us: Tumblr Bluesky

Today on Evaludate: The bad endings in this game are kind of Odd, huh; Zenn continues to be an impossible act to follow, sorry Lucien; Anastasia goes to Chicago - and: what if Batman was Princess Tutu? Follow Us: Tumblr Bluesky Content Warnings: Anti-Black Racism: 10:31 - 11:38 Suicide: 37:51 - 40:16 , 1:06:50 - 1:07:36

Today on Evaludate: Lucien is really bad at Among Us, Mael goes directly on our shit list, Anastasia and Zenn continue to be the world's biggest sweeties, and we successfully frame Crius for murder (Yay?). Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: Discussion of Anti-Black Racism: 11:39 - 14:45, 17:12 - 18:18

Today on Evaludate, we wish we could forget about all this murder-witch nonsense and play a game of HORSE with our best friend Zenn, Lucien can't be the cool one for two seconds, and Madelyn fails to frame Crius for murder. Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: The subject of capital punishment/the death penalty comes up in this episode. In light of recent tragic events, we feel it&apos...

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn start the indisputable Best Route In The Game (<- Objective Fact), very suddenly learn important info about Zenn from an unlikely source, and are probably too amped about homicide for a podcast that signs off with "don't date murderboys". Also: love is real. Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: Suicide: 37:46 -38:00, 40:15 - 44:19

Today on Evaludate: Madelyn's opinion on Tyril completes its 360-degree rotation, the game gets a little bit Hayes Code-y, and the religious world-building needs a little work. Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: We spend a lot of time in this episode discussing sexual assault and rape, please take care in listening or skip if you need to. Suicide: 13:44 - 14:11,  1:29:16 - 1:30:23 Ch...

Today on Evaludate: actually we have more to say about that weird CPR kiss last time, this game's theology is kind of wack, and oh yeah, remember how there's actual witch panic going around alongside the fun murder mystery stuff? Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: Cannibalism: 4:25 - 8:45

Today on Evaludate: hazardous weather conditions and wizard curses aren't going to stop us from recording our 100th episode, Madelyn drops the bit, witch trials continue to be a shameful blight on human history, and oh good lord there is always some shit happening to children in this game. Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: Discussion of islamophobia: 21:21 - 21:34 Suicide: 1:09:26 -...

On today's TWO HOUR EVALUDATE SPECIAL, we're getting into the real-world history of witch hunting and witch trials around Europe and North America, Madelyn insists that everyone else insisting that she would like Tyril is still wrong, and being a murder suspect is boring now--it's time to get deputized. Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: Discussion of antisemitism and islam...

Today on Evaludate: Both hosts wish the love interest of this route was swapped out, Madelyn is unfair to a videogame man, and Air vents their publishing grudges. Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: Suicide: 1:29 - 1:48, 9:30 - 9:52, 11:01 - 11:36, 26:34 - 27:00 CSA: 5:02 - 5:09, 8:04 - 11:01 Sexual Assault: 24:57 - 25:35

Today on Evaludate: Your "seemingly perfect" romantic lead needs more layers, boy howdy this route is all over the place, and Finally, Clown vs Clown action. Follow Us: Twitter Tumblr Content Warnings: Child Abuse: 14:47 - 15:57, 18:29 - 18:40, 39:42 - 40:29 Incest: 21:00 - 21:49

Today on Evaludate: who has time for witch trials and murder mysteries when there's BIRD POLITICS afoot! Commander Crius gets slut-shamed, and we ponder the motivations of our catboy timeloop administrator. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Self-harm: 36:21 - 36:29 Suicide: 43:25 - 45:15 Child abuse: 55:47 - 56:12

Today on Evaludate: the new protagonist is Batman-coded, a cat boy we can trust (maybe), enforced route order locks away our favorite guys, and time loop logistics make things a little bit weird. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Suicide: 48:41 - 49:10, 59:53 - 59:57

Today on Evaludate: The twist is shocking because you didn't build to the twist; Bustafellows continues to tangle with subject matter it refuses to treat with respect; and Air and Madelyn once again encourage patricide. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: The Auld Lang Syne segment of this episode discusses rape and incest to an extent that it may be advisable to skip the section...

Today on Evaludate: the game walks back any competence it has ever implied for any of its lead characters, the maddest we have ever been at a player character, and gratuitous bad endings. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Suicide: 31:16 - 37:26, 52:11 - 53:38,  54:23 -  58:34, 1:07:15 - 1:07:21 Gun Violence: 42:37 - 44:24, 58:02 - 58:17 Incest: 1:27:38 - 1:32:46

Today on Evaludate: you know who's Really hurt by the oppression of immigrants? This old-money white American lawyer. Adam continues to steal Limbo's route, and Bustafellows decides their narrative space is better spent on an Inspirational Terminal Child than building any chemistry between its leads. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Child Death: 1:05:26 - 1:15:44 Sources...

Today on Evaludate: Air and Madelyn will talk about anything but the man they're supposed to talk about, contractual Otome Heroine niceness, and Bustafellows revs up to do another route about human trafficking and immigration after it handled the subject So Well last time around. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn

Today on Evaludate: Air and Madelyn get fed up with the base route on their very last playthrough,  Limbo and Teuta are amicable roommates who never talk and this is supposed to turn into romance somehow, and Bustafellows offers up its most bizarre Girl Talk of all. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Suicide : 18:11 - 18:20 School Shooting: 30:20 - 32:00

Today on Evaludate: Air and Madelyn really do cry, Mozu speedruns jettisoning his accumulated goodwill, and Teuta diligently takes her protagonist pills. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: The plot of this route revolves around murders at a high school, and so our discussion of the route will involve a lot of talk about the death of children. The antagonist of this route is a murdere...

Today on Evaludate: Air and Madelyn spend way too much of this Mozu episode complaining about Helvetica, Bustafellows keeps hammering in that Weird Sibling Shit between Mozu and Teuta, and Air doesn't cry this time. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: The plot of this route revolves around murders at a high school, and so our discussion of the route will involve a lot of talk abo...

Today on Evaludate: Bustafellows 2 news ft. Bestie, Mozu Nile Shepherd: Ace Attorney, Time Travel Ethics, and we finally meet the route antagonist! Coincidentally, all of our skin crawls right off. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: The plot of this route revolves around murders at a high school, and so our discussion of the route will involve a lot of talk about the death of childre...

Today on Evaludate: Mozu is the funniest person in the cast (but the cast doesn't know it), Bustafellows really leans into its American Police Procedural inspirations, and that cat really does look just like Ingrid Bergman. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Animal death: (4:42 - 5:00, 45:40 - 45:59) Gun Violence: (22:50 - 24:14, 1:00:49 - 1:00:53) Discussion of sexual assault/C...

Today on Evaludate: Sauli is a shitty therapist, but you knew that. Air and Madelyn have a terrible time because the Bad Ending is really good at its job, and then they have a fantastic time because the Good Ending is really REALLY good at its job! Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: As a general warning, this episode contains discussion of the ways Bustafellows deals with marginalize...