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This week Willa and Robin run through all the announcements at The Game Awards, including: Tomb Raider for the straights, DILF Leon, and Control with a man. Boooooo. Also, more Old Skies talk because it's just that good! Timestamps: (00:12) Zoe probably wants to stab Willa (medically) (02:05)  A lot of time spent on Game Awards reveals   (45:00) Less time on Day of the Devs and Whol...

For what ended up being a shorter episode this week, Willa has returned to the land of chocobos and Robin has returned to the land of evil chocobos. Plus, skateboards, mechs, catgirl card games, and famous dead men. Timestamps: (00:15) Shoutout to Finland (01:45) Why are we not playing Final Fantasy 11 right now? (08:20) Skate Story (12:30) Outward 2: A game that hates you (18:40) Detective Instin...

This week we are talking gays in space (Metroid Prime 4) and gays in time (more Old Skies) and then Willa and Robin pick what games to exchange for the end of year season because the Girlies will be here before you know it! Timestamps: (02:00) Too much talk about Willa's Thanksgiving movie watching (07:10) Metroid Prime 4 (31:04) HORSES not "Horses" (38:16) More Old Skies (also briefly Birdcage an...

This week, we start with hypothetically cool new hardware and Metroid Prime’s hot new feature: mansplaining. Then we move onto games we’ve played, focusing on anticipated talking-to-hot-women simulator Demonschool (unless it gets delayed again in the six hours before this episode posts). Timestamps: (01:45) The Girl Mode News Desk: Steam Machines (15:50) Note: Myles MacKenzie died on the way back...

Episode 148 - It's terrible, I could not recommend it more This one's got everything you love: Dunkalatte talk, Willa's neighbors doing construction in the middle of a recording, Robin playing a game where you are a little mouse, but the main event is – of course – Willa going on an extended rant about a game she hates that most people love. Timestamps: (00:14) Robin joins the Dunkalatte cult&nbsp...

It’s the week after Halloween and we’re finally talking about horror games. After an extended bullshit session to start, we work our way around to mousegirl soulslikes, talking to ghosts with your crush, trick or treating, finding yourself on Bajor, and being the nosiest bitches at the seance. Timestamps: (00:15) A bunch of nonsense (04:10) Anti-recommendation for Hinako Note (07:30) Gamer news: S...

This week it’s a lot of slop talk. Remakes are slop. Cozy games are slop. Law & Order Executive Producer Dick Wolf is slop. Everything is slop. We also check in on Hades 2 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Timestamps: (00:25) It’s all downhill from here (02:27) More Hades 2 (06:35) Halo on PlayStation and why remakes suck (18:52) Dick Wolf presents AI cop slop (21:20) Cozy games disc...

Jesus, it’s Next Fest again? Guess it’s time to talk about some demos. Timestamps: (00:20) Disrespecting Baja Blast (2:20) Next Fest (3:40) Opus Prism Peak (8:15) Skate Story (12:00) Sleep Awake (16:15) Reanimal (22:00) Constance (25:00) Winter Burrow (28:20) Ambrosia Sky (32:40) Verho: Curse of Faces (35:20) The Legend of Khiimori (40:45) Mosaic of the Strange (42:50) Dungeon Bodega Simulator (46...

Episode 144 - The Soon To Be Mrs. Robin (Your Name Here) Bad news, there is barely any beverage talk in this one. Good news, Robin is open to her hand in marriage being bought. Oh, we also spend a lot of time talking about the importance in having conviction in critical thinking and why Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is great Timestamps: (01:06) Learning about our audience (3:36) Critic corner (22:00)...

This week, we’re still talking a bit about Hades II, sandwiched between slime farms, psychic babies, Tetris-likes, and Willa’s beverage-based spinoff podcast. Timestamps: (00:40) More coffee talk (5:40) Slime Rancher 2 (09:35) Hades 2 (mid-to-endgame spoilers start at 15:20) (18:30) Goodnight Universe  (26:40) Falling Block Jam   (31:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this wee...

This week Willa and Robin are talking about suffering… but for fun! Consume Me and Baby Steps take up most of the episode but there is still time for brief thoughts on Blippo, Hades 2, and Willa’s coffee tips. Time stamps: (01:15) Willa’s Dunkalatte tips (04:55) Consume Me [Trigger Warning: discussion of eating disorders]   (27:20) Baby Steps  (44:27) Blippo+  (49:26) Willa’s e...

This week we’re very tired and spend a long time talking about milk. I don’t know man. Then, Willa is apparently in the good part of Silksong and Robin talks about what she doesn’t like about Hades 2, a game that’s mostly good. Time stamps: (00:20) Coffee milk, Willa’s divorce, etc. (05:30) So Willa’s been playing some more Silksong [ Light Act 2 boss spoilers from 8:00-9:30 ] (11:00) We should pl...

Yes, we talk about Hollow Knight: Silksong in this episode, but first Robin and Willa have to salivate over the reveal that we are getting a new Fire Emblem game next year.  Time stamps: (00:20) Willa’s a tradwife (02:54) Non-Fire Emblem Direct news (14:00)  Us being crazy about new Fire Emblem (25:28) Shaw! (the Silksong segment) (53:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this we...

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Robin and Willa played some games this week, just not the same ones. First up is the detailed world of Artis Impact, followed by the sleek and simple mechanics of Öoo. They both rock!  Timestamps: (01:35) Worst Girl Mode episodes, ranked (03:47) Artis Impact (25:00) Öoo  (37:34) A short Peak update (it is still cool) (38:18) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Ali...

This week, we watched Nintendo’s little showcase, which was fine. Then we both played Heartworm, a game that we like a lot, despite all the things we don’t like about it. Finally, Robin talks about some old lady shit and a new podcast, and Willa reads a good book. Timestamps: (01:06) A little Nintendo Direct (03:25) Too cool for Americans (04:45) Regarding mouth sounds (06:05) The rest of Nintendo...

We’ve got a grab bag of things this week (that includes mini grab bags hidden within). Robin and Willa discuss the latest Nintendo Direct, including everyone’s love of Philabieldia, and then go over previews for Battlefield (boo) and Silent Hill f (boo, but in a scary way not a bad way) before checking up on what games they’ve been playing.  Timestamps: (02:30) Nintendo Direct gives us the go...

Everything that was bad last week is even worse this week. Itch has followed Steam in delisting a ton of games for either including offensive sexual content or just gay people. Who can even tell the difference? We follow that exasperating conversation with what we’ve been playing this week, mostly consisting of games about a whole bunch of toxic lesbians. Timestamps: (01:00) Everything got worse (...

Episode 133 - The Cultural Vandalism Corner This week Robin and Willa talk about the horrors of horse girl racing, the horrors of pulp point-and-click adventure The Drifter, the horrors of regulating games, and the beauty of the New York Mets baby, let's go Mets, it's all about the Mets! Timestamps: (00:13) Sponsored by TK water brand  (04:24) Umamusume: and they were roomates (12:44) The Dri...

We took last week off from recording and, what do you know, we ended up playing a lot of games in the meantime. This time, we’re talking about girls who are horses, cats who are girls, and card games that are magic. This week also marks Press Start joining The Worst Garbage network so go check them out!! Timestamps: (00:25) We’ve gone to the audience (03:10) Peak - It’s still good (10:00) P5X - A...

There has not been a lot of news for us to discourse about lately, so we are doing what every good content creator does for engagement: make a bad list. Come for Willa and Robin suffering through a task of their own making as they choose the best games of the 21st century, stay for updates on what Willa’s neighbor is doing with their backyard.  Timestamps: (00:13) Judging our neighbors (04:09...

We’re coming to you live from the heat dome this week, so assume anything wrong with this episode is due to our brains poaching in our skulls. In the meantime, we’ve been playing fishing games and porn games and old games and racing games and all kinds of other games and we’re here to talk about them in no particular order.  Timestamps: (00:20) Welcome to the heat dome (02:50) Sinker Sound (1...

This week, we've played an unconscionable number of demos, so we run through a whole bunch of the ones we mostly liked at Steam Next Fest and the Tribeca Festival. Then, Willa interviews Tribeca Games vice president Casey Baltes with a tin can inside a submarine apparently and Robin tries her hardest to make it listenable. Timestamps: (00:20) Just a whole bunch of nothing (04:35) Dice Gambit (10:3...

The worst part of the year was even worse this year. We slogged through Summer Game Fest and a few showcases that didn’t suck and now we’re here to talk about what we saw there and why everyone’s so mad. CW: Discussions of disordered eating in Consume Me from 52:30 to 57:05 Timestamps: (00:20) Our mortal enemy, summer (01:30) State of Play had a few good games (13:15) Ciri Showcase and Unearthed T...

We have a handful of games to talk about this week, including an excellent new farming game, a so-so story from the creator of Katamari Damacy, and a turn-based RPG about death (no, not that one). Timestamps: (00:30) Corndog update (04:10) Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is the second coming of Harvestella (24:50) To a T is cute I guess (40:55) Galactic Glitch is simple fun (44:10) Danchi Days is...