Surprise Mechanics

This is it, Game of the Year 2024 with the Surprise Mechanics! Billy, Mikaela, and Roman share the best games we played in 2024 and y'know its been one heck of a year. The Backlog is complete* and 2025 is here. *not really there's always a new game Send us an email - surprisemechanicspod@gmail.com Follow us on BlueSky - @surprisemechanics.bsky.social

It's that time of year again, folks! Gather around the fire with your hot cocoa, your cheesesteak sammich, and some other thing I can't think of atm to discuss, as we always do, the works of American filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. It's the holiday tradition that we all know and love!!

The rails have come off completely, chaos reigns, and rules no longer have power in this realm. Mikaela's still going on about Silent Hill 2 twenty years later and Roman cannot put down Vampire Survivors, Stardew Valley, and Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! And to that I say, "Right on! Listen to this episode y'all, it's silly!" I was supposed to put our email address here but I dropped it :(

Bill Hyland returns to talk dice rolls, romance-able NPC's, insatiable bloodlust, and more in Baldur's Gate 3. It's like Dungeons and Dragons except you don't need to talk to anyone else to play it. That's right! The only friend I need is right here: the computer. The computer will never leave me, nor get angry at me for refusing to check on her cat when she's out of town. That's why I love my bes...

The spooky time is over, do you hear me?! It's FINISHED. We're DONE with it! We're not spending another second talking about zombies, or blood sucking vampires, or whimsical spirits. We're leaving all that behind and focusing on what lies ahead. No more scary stuff for us, just the real world and all of it's very real, very literal implications... ...Oh no... This week it's WEBFISHING and Remnant...

Wrapping up the spooky season with a spooky combo! OOoooOooooOOoooOo Have a happy Halloween!

Welcome back to another episode of Late Night with the Surprise Mechanics! Tonight we conjure the devil to talk about the 2023 found footage horror Late Night with the Devil and by conjure the devil I mean using forbidden technology like computers. Our email address is hiding and waiting for the perfect moment for a jumpscare!

Spooky Mechanics continues and it's time to exorcise some demons. And you know what else, we're going to exercise our bodies, too! That's right, gang. Let's get those heart rates up. Drop and give me twenty. Jumping jacks, let's get 'em going! Tickle fight!! Whose with me?!

Autumn is here, Halloween is looming in the near future, and we have thoughts about Alan Wake. Like, the whole series. And then some! Follow us on Bluesky

Sonic Summer is OVER! We are DONE with that beautiful blue bastard. For real this time!!* Yeah, a summer full of Sonic games would have kept a lot of gamers busy, but not us. We had time on our hands. What did we do with that time? This is our story... Follow us on Bluesky! Just search for the show, idk what you want from me. *See Sonic the Hedgehog 3 only in theaters December 20

We're closing out this special Sonic Summer with a Sonic Murder Mystery! Sonic Summer may have come to an end but the blue blur will always remain a part of us all. Drop us a line: SurpriseMechanicsPod@gmail.com Follow us at social media!

Sonic Battle  is a 2003 beat 'em up video game developed by Sonic Team for the Game Boy Advance. It is the second fighting game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the first game being Sonic the Fighters. It was released in Japan in December 2003 and in North America and Europe in early 2004. The game received a lukewarm response from critics. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Battle) #Deadpo...

Sonic Summer continues and takes us through even more deep cuts of Sonic media. Matt Slanaker joins the Surprise Mechanics this time to lend his Sonic expertise and help us sort through all this lore!

Man, it is way too hot! This is nuts! The hell is a heat dome? Dimmsdale Dimma-ass sounding weather. ~~hEaT dOmE~~ what are you telling me that for? What am I supposed to do about that? Get out of here! It's HOT and I'm CRANKY. We played Sonic 3D Blast.

Welcome to Sonic Summer, a series devoted to talking about the speediest, blurriest, spin-offiest Sonic the Hedgehog media we can get our white gloved hands on! And who better to talk about some weird Sonic stuff than our good buddy, and resident Hedgehog mega fan, Kaleb?! When we asked him he wanted to start the whole thing he said Tails and the Music Maker and we said: Okay. Then he said it was...

Celebrate Mikaela's birthday with the Surprise Mechanics as we try to figure out if it was the movies or the games or the Super Mario 64s. We don't know! Help!

Mikaela, Roman, and their shared Sleep Paralysis Demon Samuel are back in studio! They're coming at you LIVE to talk about all that stuff I already listed out. What, you want me to do it again? Nah nah nah. Not doing it. Give it a listen. Or don't! That's fine!! Stop being so weird about it.

Dude, where's my hoverbike? Today the Surprise Mechanics return from their gliding to talk about Sable. Anyway, did you watch Fallout? Follow us on Bluesky @surprisemechanics.bsky.social Drop us a line: SurpriseMechanicsPod@gmail.com

Michaela thought this was just going to be another episode...another walk in the freakin park...but nope! Roman had other plans! This ain't your grandma's Surprise Mechanics! She thought she could get away with just talking about Like a Dragon: Ishin! and Roman would be normal about it. Maybe he would talk about Helldivers or some bullshit comic book he read, but nope! He had to go SICKO M...

You're telling me a monkey made this island? You're telling me a dave built this diver? What the!!

Oh no it's happening again! They let Roman and Mikaela ramble about The Last of Us Part 2 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Who was on the clock? You had one job! We can't let them continue this conversation the very fabric of space time will erode. Fire [REDACTED] and get these two nerds talking about their backlog again! Check out Mikaela's band at https://open.spotify.com/album/0Kd34W5fUk...

We're back, babyyyy! Our Gamers Rest has ended and now we're ready to talk video games. But things are going to be a little different this time, that's for sure. This time, get this, this time it's all about the backlog. Surprise Mechanics 2024: The Backlog. That's the stuff. We're talking old games, old-ish games, and probably some new ones too. The backlog stretches ahead...

Here we are once again, talking about the best games this year with friends. The Surprise Mechanics return to tradition with guest Billy Hyland to figure out the best games we played in 2023. Those honorable mentions though Follow us on Bluesky: @SurpriseMechanics.bsky.social Drop us a line: SurpriseMechanicsPod@gmail.com

The Cinema Enjoyers (TM) have just returned from their latest trip to the local theatre where they had the pleasure to watch Godzilla Minus One. And folks...it rules. Seriously. It's so, so good. You should go watch it. Get your tickets right now. You're already on your phone. Just hop over to Fandango or whatever. Also, we're not sponsored by Fandango, but are open to conversations. A...

Spooky Mechanics 2023 concludes with our first ever Gamers Debate (TM) discussing Bend Studio's Days Gone. Lines are drawn and friendships are tested as Roman argues in favor of this underappreciated game and Mikaela chuckles along, mostly not really caring. There is also mention of Jurassic Park and food. Follow us on Bluesky @surprisemechanics.bsky.social Drop us a line: SurpriseMechanicsPod...