Into the Aether - A Low Key Video Game Podcast

That's right! Right before 2022 ends, it's our Game of the Year Spectacular! Stephen and Brendon trekked all the way to the great cold state of Pennsylvania to record with AJ in front of the traditional yule log YouTube video and, of course, The Orb.  All three present their top ten games of the year, their Games of the Other Year (GOTOY is catching on!), and then decide on the Aether's official t...

Snap snap, Stephen and Brendon recorded this one in person! Get ready for a virtual fireside chat about preparing for GOTY 2022, the announcements and winners from The Game Awards, and a new incredible Chrono Trigger inspired JRPG. Discussed: SantaCon, Game of the Year 2022, The Game Awards, Al Pacino, Hades 2, Remnant 2, Death Stranding 2, Earthblade, Armored Core VI, Chained Echoes --- Find us e...

This week on the podcast: Brendon pushes "judging games by their intentions" to its absolute limit. Discussed: Marvel's Midnight Suns, Majora's Mask 3D, Immortality, Final Fantasy XV --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecast --- Follow Stephen Hilger: https://stephenhilgerart.com/ Follow Brendon Bigley: https://brendonbigley.com/ Produ...

The time has finally come to talk about one of the most influential games of all time. No pressure!  Note: Brendon's audio got a bit mangled in this one, just our luck! Hopefully you don't mind too much. We considered re-recording, but it just wouldn't be the same.  --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecast --- Follow Stephen Hilger: h...

Everyone in New Jersey has heard the tall tale about the Jersey Devil. Yeah, he WANTED to be Gex. Spooky, right? Discussed: Rivals of Aether, 30XX, Another World, Pokemon Scarlet / Violet, Final Fantasy XV, and more! --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecast --- Follow Stephen Hilger: https://stephenhilgerart.com/ Follow Brendon Bigley...

Finally after all these years of asking, begging, pleading... we've finally gotten to the core of it. That's right folks. It's Pokemon. Discussed: Pokemon Scarlet / Violet, Pentiment, Tactics Ogre Reborn --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecast --- Follow Stephen Hilger: https://stephenhilgerart.com/ Follow Brendon Bigley: https://bre...

Look sometimes you just need to kick back and relax, sit on a stump in a cave about a half-mile from your cabin, and carve arrows for your son to lodge into the bodies of gods with no sense of humility as their inevitable doom approaches through the goosebumps of their frigid skin. Discussed: Signalis, Pokemon Scarlet / Violet, God of War Ragnarök --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online...

Hey baby I hear the blues a-calling, tossed salads and scrambled eggs. Or maybe it was just the wind? I'm not sure, I wasn't paying attention. There's a new season of Marvel Snap and this person thinks they can beat me with an Onslaught and Mister Fantastic combo. Discussed: Perfect Tides, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, The Entropy Centre, Harvestella, Isle of Arrows, Marvel SNAP --- Find us everywh...

Chris Plante is here to ask a big question: What exactly WAS 2022? Was it just the year of Elden Ring? Was it the year of the Steam Deck? Or was it the precursor to the first AAAA video game? Discussed: Marvel SNAP, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Slice & Dice, Resident Evil --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstg...

Happy Halloween! On this very special bonus episode, Stephen and Brendon discuss the genre-defining works of 1994's Super Metroid and 1997's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgarbage.online Follow Stephen Hilger: https://twitter.com/StephenHilger Follow Brendon Bigley: https://twitter.com/brendonbigley --- Produ...

"Don't say materia, don't say materia, don't say materia, don't say materia, don't say materia, don't say materia, don't say materia..."  The materia system in this game is great. Wait. Whoops. Discussed: Persona 5 Royal, Marvel SNAP, Trails in the Sky, Ib, Dome Keeper --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgarbage.online Follow Stephen Hilger: https:/...

Painting the Green Hill Zone red since 2001. Past Meets Present - The Legend of Heroes by Marc Normandin: https://retroxp.substack.com/p/past-meets-present-the-legend-of Discussed: The Case of the Golden Idol, Dragon Quest Builders, Trails in the Sky, Trails from Zero, Silent Hill, Grim Fandango, Costume Quest --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgar...

This is not a joke but I was going to grab my Funko Pop Pharah to take a photo for the episode art and it was literally covered in cobwebs and we all decided it was a bit too on-the-nose so I cleaned it off instead. Overwatch 2 Is Asking Too Much Of Me: https://www.wavelengths.online/overwatch-2-launch-nightmare/ Discussed: NieR: Automata - The End of YoRHa Edition, Dragon Quest X Offline, Overwat...

I like tarnished that wear Abercrombie & Boc, I’d take them and that’s not just talk, but they’ve been gone since that summer, since that summer. Discussed: Dorfromantik, Shovel Knight Dig, Elden Ring, Inscryption, Prodeus, Story of Seasons, Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town, Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town, Exominer, Slice & Dice --- Find...

Stephen and Brendon are joined by Brendan Klinkenberg to discuss God of War (2018), a seminal title in PlayStation Studios' lineup and the precursor to the upcoming God of War Ragnarök. Follow Brendan here: https://twitter.com/brendan_klink --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgarbage.online Follow Stephen Hilger: https://twitter.com/StephenHilger Fo...

All the world's a stage, but the grocery store especially is the coolest, biggest, and best stage there is. So step right up if you've got the arm and you've got the spirit. Think YOU have what it takes to square up alongside Grocery Store Stephen and Brendon "Sid" Bigley? Brendon's piece about the Steam Deck: https://www.wavelengths.online/the-steam-deck/ The Wandering Village video: https://yout...

Stephen and Brendon finally receive their Steam Decks and have a lot of thoughts to try and cram into one podcast episode. Splatoon 3 is the only good social media platform: https://www.polygon.com/23353488/splatoon-3-best-posts-billboards-posters-walls-jfresh-queen The Yosuke Romance Mod For Persona 4 Golden Is Now Available On PC: https://www.thegamer.com/yosuke-romance-mod-persona-4-golden-avai...

Little peek behind the curtain here: This is Brendon. I usually write these things... but I'm not in this episode! So I don't really know what to put here this time around. I think they talk about Zelda a bit? Maybe some Mario? Can't wait to find out along with you! Regardless: Thanks to Dom Nero for filling in for me this week, thanks to Zant for continually being our muse, and thanks to you dear...

Today is September 13, 2022. Nintendo had yet another Direct. We Had to discuss.  --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgarbage.online Follow Stephen Hilger: https://twitter.com/StephenHilger Follow Brendon Bigley: https://twitter.com/brendonbigley --- Produced by AJ Fillari: https://twitter.com/ajfillari Season 5 Cover Art by Scout Wilkinson: https:/...

This ain't your usual out-of-the-box Dwight. No sir, this is a premium Dwight for a premium customer. It's got all the bell's an whistles you'd expect from a Dwight — ambition, strong moral code, encyclopedic knowledge on various topics — but after The Big Upgrade this Dwight has one thing none of the other Dwights around here got: the capacity for normalcy. Yessir, this Dwight's a pleasure to hav...

Had a cool idea for a reboot of Tomb Raider in which Lara Croft raids tombs. I think it's gonna be a hit. Discussed: Tomb Raider (2013), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Splatoon 3, Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgarbage.online Follow Stephen Hilger: https://twitter.com/StephenHilger Follo...

It's a summer of crafting here in the Aether, and with it comes a discussion about Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64 with our producer and friend AJ Fillari.  --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgarbage.online Follow Stephen Hilger: https://twitter.com/StephenHilger Follow Brendon Bigley: https://twitter.com/brendonbigley --- Produced by AJ Fillari: h...

I like keeping myself on my own toes. Errant Signal on Fortnite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNukmNDq60Q GMT on puzzle games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjC6fa_YBg Discussed: Kirby's Dream Buffet, Rollerdrome, Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation -The Endless Seven-Day Journey, Lara Croft GO, Cult of the Lamb, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Hades, God of War --- Find us everywhe...

Nothing to see here, just two cows and a lamb out in the pasture. They've all been doing this for 200+ weeks and definitely not doing anything suspicious on the side. Ignore the bright red glow some cutting through the mid-day light of the sun. Everything is cool here. Discussed: Cult of the Lamb, Two Point Campus, Civilization III-VI, Crusader Kings 2-3, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Upcoming Releases, Gr...

Pigma’s Allegory of the Cave asks if you spent your life staring at a CRT screen playing Star Fox 64, would you even be able to comprehend Dinosaur Planet? Discussed: Gamer Chairs, Tetris Effect: Connected, REZ, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Power Wash Simulator, Fortnite --- Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.online Join the Discord: https://theworstgarbage.online Follow Stephen Hilger: https://tw...