Living La Vita Loca

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Metal Wolf Chaos XD (2004/2019, Steam) Timestamp: (03:15 - 21:00...

Last week was 'Obscure October' on LLVL podcast. This week it's 'Handheld Halloween' as we take our PSP/PS Vita's for a scary spin around the neighbourhood. Will our review pairing be a trick or treat? Firstly, we chat about our favourite Halloween memories decide we don't really have any! We also briefly check in on the state of the PlayStation TV in 2026. (Timestamp: 00:00 - 08:00) As for review...

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Water Margin: A Tale of Clouds & Wind (1996, Sega Mega Drive via...

Wallace Wells: "Hey, Jimmy do these guys rock or suck?" Jimmy: "They have not started [podcasting] yet..." Wallace Wells: "That was a test Jimmy, and you passed" --- Side scrolling 'Beat 'em ups' kick ass. We're in lesbians with them. First up, Fazz enters the subspace highway between your ears to plant a review of 'Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game - Complete Edition' (2021, Nintendo Switch)....

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Ridge Racer V (2000, PS2) • Heading Out (2024, PS5) What?! Ridge...

Dear listener... we really need your help... ​It’s pretty hard to link a marginalised 2004 PSP launch title with a massive 2017 PS4 flagship adventure. The good ship 'Podblurb' is heading straight through choppy seas and taking on water fast! ​Think... think... Ooh, wait. Seas? Ships?? PORTS?!? It’s tenuous, but grab a lifejacket, it’ll have to do! ​Rich takes us back to 'Darkstalkers Chronicle: T...

"Space... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone boldly gone before" That 5 year mission has actually lasted 60 years Kirky boy. Let's hope someone has emptied the septic tank in the toilet by now... To celebrate the 60th anniversary o...

Hi podfans! A long while ago (167 episodes ago in fact) we reviewed 'Ridge Racer' (PSP) and 'Ridge Racer' (PS Vita). It turned out 'Ridge Racer' was still good in 2023 and 'Ridge Racer' was still bad in 2023! We also discussed Jalopnik.com's 'Ridge Racer' ranking from the same year to see if we could work out which 'Ridge Racer' was the best that had ever ridged?!? It seemed as though the series h...

Hi Podfans Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Fear Effect (2000, PS1 via a 2024 remaster port) • Tr...

Did you know there are over 100 Mega Man games in existence? There's Mega Man, Mega Man X, Mega Man ZX, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Battle Network, Mega Man Star Force and Mega Man: In Da House... Okay, we may have made that last one up but you get the point. If you've never played Mega Man before (Looking at you Fazz, you barbarous savage!) then where do you even start? Well, at the beginning of c...

Gather round podfans and let us tell you a tale... This is the story of 3 lads from opposing sides of the Pennines who have forged a sacred 'Bond' over the internet like it's peak 2003 MSN messenger chat. They come together from different tribes to break bread (burger buns) and potentially small bones in their weak trigger fingers over Arcade Club cabinets in Leeds. They laugh, they compete, they...

Mmm... tasty, tasty podcast spam topics... You know the kind... the kind of podcast spam topic created completely on the hoof because one of your podcast hosts is on holiday and overall effort levels are loooooooowwwww? Yeah that kind. The tastiest kind of podcast spam... So what delicacy are we shoving down your throat this week? Only a few of the most important questions ever asked by humankind....

Persona... Mario Kart... Portal... Pokemon Mystery Dungeon... What do all of these random games have in common? That's right, they're all successful spin off editons of previously well established video game franchises! Well done you for answering the question correctly! Here is a podcast episode as your prize... This week, we're heading away from the well trodden path of plain old regular games t...

​"I got soul but I'm not a soldier... I got soul but I'm not a soldier..." ​Well, if your pod hosts wouldn't make great soldiers, perhaps they would make a superb sorcerer or a perfect pilot instead? Hopefully, we're about to find out... ​Firstly, Rich flexes his magical muscles in Soul Sacrifice (2013, PS Vita). It was touted as the handheld's 'killer app' when it launched, but as one of the few...

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Valiant Hearts: The Collection (2014-2023, PS5) • Warhammer 4000...

Hi podfans! ​Welcome to our Assassin’s Creed(-ance Clearwater) Revival episode. It has been a whopping 110 episodes since we last visited the AC universe. Thankfully, we're joined by our regular special guest Fiona who will help us carry all of the tired puns and dead bodies. ​While our last AC podding effort lay squarely in the handheld domain (Bloodlines, Liberation), today we are dragging our k...

Hi podfans, ​As we approach the holiday season, we like to draft in friends of the podcast who we can really trust. You know, the type of people who would never shoot us in the back whilst performing a Helldive for no reason whatsoever... Oh wait, that might have been me, actually. ​What?!? My finger slipped. ​Luckily, @scottmassey83 soon got over it (after a brief period of VENGEANCE) and happily...

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Uchusen: Ultimate Ploid Battle (2019, Evercade) • Untitled Goose...

David Deckham... Hitler... Gary Wobbly Neville... Who are they and what do they all have in common? Thats right, they all make an appearance in this FIFA World Cup 2026 special from Living La Vita Loca podcast. Why? Well, Rich tries to play a single match in nearly every football-centric video game ever made. His review of this experience really is a spectacle befitting of the biggest sporting eve...

"Hell, I lived through the fall, no problem. But gettin' back to shore, well, let's just say I'm no Michael Phelps" Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games...

Elliot Carver: "Mr. Jones, are we ready to release our new PODCAST?" Mr Jones: "Yes, sir. As requested, it's full of bugs, which means people will be forced to LISTEN for years." Elliot Carver: "Outstanding." It's James Bond week on Living La Vita Loca podcast! As most gamers eagerly await the first home console 007 video game in 14 years, we're taking the opportunity to cycle through Bond's back...

"Needs more tongue" Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Child of Light (2014, PS Vita) • Oink! (1983...

Everybody loves Master Chief. He's a video game icon. Don't get us wrong, we love him dearly too but it's okay to 'play the field' a little sometimes and see what else is on offer... Back in 2009, it was clear that Bungie were feeling the same way. Contractually obligated to release two further games for Microsoft after Halo 3, they could have easily gone back to the 'John-117 well' but they made...

"Don't f*%k with a witch!" Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Doom: The Dark Ages (2025, PC) • Bayo...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... No keep going... keeeeeeeeeeeeep going... Right, we're here... All the way back on Ep.9 of this here podcast, a bold promise was made by one cohost to NEVER play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003, Xbox). Fazz has inevitably broken your trust and done the exact opposite by playing KOTOR... Sort of. The results? A well overdue therapy session...