Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Now here's a little story all about how, I dug some soil up with a trowel, now I'd like to plant a cactus, maybe right there, and tell you how I became a garden having guy... in Bel-Air. This week Tommy tells Ben and Adam about Garden Story, Ben tells Tommy and Adam about Islanders and Boyfriend Dungeon, Adam tells Ben and Tommy about the 2004 Tom Cruise film Collateral, and all three boys tell ea...

In the world of music, a presentation full of nothing but new projects from Indie artists would be the most terrifying event I could picture myself suffering through. In the world of video games, it's pretty cool! We have a look at a whole stack of new and soon to come indie games from the Nintendo showcase, including Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Toem, Garden Story, Metal Slug Tactics, Eastward and more....

We're halfway through the year baby! And then a little bit extra through the year on top of that but y'know, around half. And then means it's time to take stock and look back at what's come so far, and look forward to what's on its way. Looking backwards and forwards rapidly, trying to keep an eye on both on the same time, but injuring our necks by swinging our heads wildly from side to side. Whil...

You may be the judge of this courtroom, big anime beard guy, but when all is said and done there is no greater judge than Death. That is why this week we're talking Death's Door and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. It's not because they just both came out this week, it's because of the very deep and insightful connection between them that we've identified in that first sentence there. If you don...

All that's old is new again. Sure, we've played Skyward Sword before, but not in HD or with the game assuming that we would like to solve the puzzles ourselves. Sure, we've played PC games before, but not in a nice little handheld (other than the PC handhelds that have come out before, but like I say this one is nice). Hey, we've played Bandersnatch on Netflix, but we haven't forced ourselves to p...

Tommy's been playing Monster Hunter Stories 2 on the Switch, so it's time for Ben and Adam to take him to school. Computer school. It's the school where everybody gets beaten up and there's nobody outside at lunchtime. The teachers are all a bit creepy and the students are somehow a bit creepier. The school bus? A serial bus. The hall monitor? A G-sync monitor. The hat you wear when you graduate?...

Cruelty Squad is a twisted throwback to the early 2000s style of large scale, emergent FPS; a deliberately bizarre and uncomfortable game that tries its hardest to baffle, confuse, unsettle and upset you. And it doesn't even come close to achieving that as effectively as Nintendo's announcement of the new OLED Switch. We talk about both on this episode, as well as the fun Early Access Doom-clone P...

18 holes? What is this, a DONUT SHOP? Now, while I don't want you to stop enjoying that enormous laugh that you're definitely in the midst of right now, I would like to talk to you about something that is, in fact, not a joke. The fact that donuts do not have holes. A donut is a ring, and therefore the "hole" in the centre is a natural aspect of the shape. While the term "hole" would be appropriat...

Video games are officially good, and we prove it this week with reviews of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Final Fantasy VII Intermission DLC and the Intergrade update for PS5, Nintendo's new intro to game design Game Builder Garage, and wish a happy birthday to the Game Boy Advance. I've since learned that it was also the Nintendo 64's birthday and we said nothing. Must be pretty upsetting to be...

(To the tune of We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel) WarioWare, Elden Ring, Starfield, Metroid Dread Mario and Rabbids are back, new Breath of the Wild Halo Infinite, Diablo, Age of Empires, Outer Worlds 2 Guardians of the Galaxy, Metal Slug Tactics Ace Attorney, Sable, Far Cry 6, Back 4 Blood Life is Strange, Tales of Arise, Shin Megami Tensei 5 Battlefield, Forza, Death Stranding Director's C...

E3 is just around the corner so this episode we're doing that thing where the 3 people all peak around a corner at the same time and they're all at different heights. You know that thing, like in The Little Rascals and things like that? Like they'd all have to be really weirdly contorted behind the wall they're peering around to even be able to all look at once. I guess one crouches, one is sort o...

EXTRA, EXTRA, LISTEN ALL ABOUT IT! Three kind and knowledgable boys dissect all the news that's fit to record as the year's second-biggest gaming event rapidly approaches! Will the Nintendo Switch Pro be announced within one hour of this episode dropping? Almost certainly. In fact you can thanks us if it does, we're so cursed. God of War 2 delays, Biomutant patches, Crysis remasters, Team Asobis,...

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Anime and aliens this week as we dive into two remasters on vastly different scales with Famicom Detective Club on the Switch and Mass Effect Legendary Edition on every other console. Whether you want to live in 1980s Japan or a vast galactic network of planets populated by multiple space-faring species, we've got you covered. And don't pretend it's not a choice between one of those two things. Yo...

Puzzling, horrific, and a guarantee that you'll get some action. That's right, it's a description of Tommy Dassalo, Ben Vernel and Adam Knox respectively. This week they have a big old Resident Evil 8 chat, including a spoiler-free review followed by a spoiler-filled optional Sealed Section at the end. Whether you're in the UK where R.E. means Religious Education and Resi means Resident Evil, or i...

G'day Filth! As a little treat, we're dropping last week's Nintendo 69 into the regular feed. We talk movies, TV, random stuff, and just generally have fun. If you like this episode, please consider joining our patreon where you will get an episode like this EVERY WEEK! You can also get access to the secret Patreon Facebook group and Discord server, early access to our now weekly video content, an...

Three run-based games this week for three extremely non-run-based hosts. Returnal, New Pokemon Snap and Loop Hero: three games that are based on runs, reviewed by three podcast hosts. This week Adam has played run-based game Returnal, Tommy has played run-based game New Pokemon Snap, and Ben has played run-based game Loop Hero. It's roguelike week at Filthy Casuals HQ and the boys have played thre...

Mortal Kombat's second surge in popularity means Hollywood's third attempt at a Mortal Kombat movie, and Tommy, Ben and Adam have seen it, formed thoughts on it, figured out how to express those thoughts, and then committed those explanations to public record in the form of this podcast. Even if they had to do it over Zoom again because of a snap lockdown, they got it done. It's that kind of podca...

Step right up for the big showcase of what Tommy, Ben and Adam thought of two small showcases. Plus some fresh perspectives on indie classic Fez, N64 classic Shadow Man and Filthy Casuals classic "buying things live on air". Patreon - weekly bonus episodes and secret Filthy group Bandcamp Premium Episodes YouTube - including live streams and Let's Plays Twitch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

All around me are familiar faces, Stitched up faces, squid like faces, Who is chanting? Oh some guy named Abe is, Saying hello, sometimes farting, The farts are coming out their asses Communicating, with their intestines, Run to the left sometimes and also the right, 2.5D, basically 2D, And I find it kinda fun and, I find it kinda bad, The game which I am playing, A remake of its dad, It used to b...

A reprehensible drunk with full-blown amnesia talks to Ben and Tommy about Disco Elysium. Honestly, there's no way you can argue with content like that. It's good by-line content, in my opinion. Speaking of good content, we've got a bunch of interesting news this week, Tommy's thoughts after having dived into Monster Hunter Rise himself, and of course the main course which is a long chat about the...

What's that coming over the hill, s it a Monster Hunter Rise review episode? Is it a Monster Hunter Rise review episode? Why yes it is. It's also an episode about Kojima Productions rumours that may or may not have already turned out to be baseless, online shops that will soon shut down, other games such as Narita Boy and HitchHiker, and more! That's what is coming over the hill. Patreon - weekly...

News about the next Switch model, the new PSVR, Microsoft looking to purchase Discord, a Bioshock themed mod for Half-Life Alyx, the final DLC for The Outer Worlds, and more. This is the content contained in this particular podcast, the 283rd episode of Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo, Ben Vernel and Adam Knox, a podcast about video games. Should you require more information, please refer to the...

On an episode where we discuss a chunk of Bethesda's catalogue being added to Xbox Gamepass and Sony giving away 10 games for free, the most "pro-consumer" thing still manages to be... Adam Knox, who reviews his new Xbox wireless headphones. The boys also chat about early access game Teardown and Tommy and Ben dig into Yakuza: Like A Dragon! This episode is supported by MANSCAPED! Get 20% OFF MANS...

A seemingly small model which reveals itself to have a surprising depth and enormity after you have come to terms with the fact that you have ended up inside it. That's right, it's Ben Vernel, and he's here with Tommy Dassalo and Adam Knox to review Maquette and Blind Drive, as well as discuss the news of the week such as even more Switch Pro rumours and burned down Rust servers. One of us likes M...