Living La Vita Loca

Hi podfans Sometimes one of those episodes rolls along where both LLVL cohosts share kindred opinion on a hobby or a genre and it's a reet good love in! Well, what about when we're in lockstep about something we feel much less kindly about... This week as part of #DryveJanuary (Patent still pending. Probably. Somewhere?) we're getting behind the wheel of some F1 games and attempting to not fall as...

Hey Podracers Everyone remembers those timeless lyrics from the Team America movie right? "America! F*&k yeah! Coming again to save the mutha-TRUCKING Day-TONA yeah!" We know what youre thinking... "those aren't the right words!" And you'd be right to think that but why is it a relevant play on words??? Because this week we're covering Daytona USA 2001 (2001, Sega Dreamcast) and 18 Wheeler: Am...

Happy 2025 podfans and welcome to Dry-ve January! We're putting the pedal to the metal this month to provide you with reviews from popular racing video games throughout the years. After a quick catch up from our festive break, we barrel (roll) straight into one of our favourite racing formats, Rally driving. Fazz has spent a lot of time recently catching up (during in-game races and in reality) on...

Hi Podfans! So we're finally here... after 113 (ish) video game reviews in 2024, we're ready to pick a winner of every score bracket between 0 and 10. Rich has brought a clipboard and everything. It couldn't be more official! We won't give any bracket winners away in the blurb but keep an ear out for important conversations that help us decide such as: "How much % of sausage meat are we?" "MULLIGA...

Ho ho ho Podfans Or should we say CODfans? Our last review podcast of the year sees us serve up a festive buffet of gaming goodness. Rich plumbs for a more contemporary affair with Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (PS4), a bloated title for bloated holiday stomachs. Is this remaster worthy of the base game or do we wish that we'd swapped it with the original disc and placed it in...

Patapatapatapon... patapatapatapon... Is that the gentle sound of rain against the window during the UK's stormy season or is it the rhythmic drumbeat of a 2007 PSP game from Japan Studio? Likely, it's both but only one is really welcome here at Living La Vita Loca and we know you didn't come for a review of the s*&t weather! We've gone big this week and by big we mean rather small as both of...

Hi there groovy podboppers We're hitting two heavyweight handheld ports this week which both have legitimate claims of being in the top 25 games of each of their respective platforms. First up is the annoyingly named Mortal Kombat (2012, PS Vita) which is actually the 9th entry of the series... Go figure. This soft reboot was well regarded as one of the best fighting games for the Vita. Is it stil...

Hi podbeasts Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' 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! Did any of you watch Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul? Allegedly over 100 million people did. We didn't. We dont even kn...

Hi Poddogs, In this episode we're inviting you to 'rub an unfeasibly long sausage dog' in a dead hero's crypt. It's exactly as it sounds we're afraid... Before we do any of that, we spend some time discussing demo discs once again. This leads to the age old question... Who or what is Net Yaroze and is he friends with The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha?!? The reason we're banging on a...

Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' 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! In March, we walked through GQ's Best 100 Video Games and Fazz was appalled to learn how few had played. He's already taken...

Hi Podfans We're powering our PSP and PS Vita this week with two games that have a bit of genre fusion occurring... Over in 'PSP Plaza' we have Half Minute Hero (2009, PSP), a part RPG, RTS, SHMUP and action adventure all thrown into one title. Fazz has never really played anything like it on the PSP before and well... we're not sure he's played a better game on the PSP... ever! Managing to cram s...

Hi Podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we all pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host (and special guest this week!). We then review said game on the podcast and ask our other pod pals to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! This week, we invited Fiona back on the pod to defend the honour of the Ace...

Hi podfans We had a puzzle on our hands this week... Who would help guide the pod as Rich remains under the weather?!? Hopefully he'll be back soon but in the meantime, Fazz fires up the Mystery Machine and drags Sally, his video game-phobic wife, along for the ride to deliver you some murder mystery merriment. Whilst we wouldn't ever claim to be great at solving crimes ourselves (we once had a go...

Hi podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' 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... or at least that's what SHOULD be happening?!? Alas, Rich is metaphorically under the weather this week leaving Fazz to steer alone thr...

What are "War Adjacent" video games? Certainly not something we just made up on an amateur podcast, no sir. But let's say that the 'War Adjacent Video Game' awards did exist, how would this weeks games fair in the best 'War Adjacent Video Game ever' category? First up for selection, Crrrrrraazzy Taxi: Fare Wars (PSP), a faithful port of Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2. Did Fazz have any idea this port...

Hi podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we all pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host (and special guest this week!). We then review said game on the podcast and ask our other pod pals to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! Haikers guest stars this week with a review of Brutal Legend, a 2009 Jack Bl...

You want PSP shmups? We got PSP shmups! You want all time classic video gaming series? We got all time classic video gaming series! You want crazy-ass sand lion enemies just constantly comin' at ya bro?! You don't?? Well we don't blame you. It's psychologically terrifying... We're not messing about this week (not the whole time). We're shooting from the hip, elbow, belly button... anywhere we can...

Attention Pod Tac squad! This week, we're infiltrating the 3rd person shooter genre with the help of our cutting edge remote technology... The er... PSP and erm... PS Vita... But never fear! It is far from mission over before it's even begun as our holy hand(held) grenades actually give out quite an explosive kick when it comes to performance across our reviews. Well... some of them anyway... Firs...

Hi Podfans. Well here it is... an actual retro gaming podcast for SOME... MANY... ALL (?)... of your retro gaming needs... We're off to the Leeds International Beer Festival this weekend. That's good. Fazz lost the previously recorded podcast. That's bad. We're here to talk about current retro gaming news instead. That's good. Rich is less than invested by the proposed current retro gaming news. T...

As Fatboy Slim once span... "Back once again for the renegade master" and by "renegade master", he obviously meant "a retrogaming podcast after a week's holiday". And by "retrogaming" we obviously mean "a gaming podcast that reviews games from 2024 but their original iterations are between 25-50 years old". Are you still with us? Potentially not. Someone who is definitely with us this week is our...

Hi everyone. Welcome to Living La Vita boat-cast, for all of your gaming knees... What's the best way to follow up last week where we had a record number of podcast listens and listeners? (Thank you all so, so much by the way!) Leaving you all wanting more by going on holiday for a week obviously! That's right, there is no official episode of Living La Vita Loca podcast this week for the first tim...

Hi Podfans The M42 motorway runs north east from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire to just south west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire. We just thought you should know that (00:52). We also think you should know that the Evercade series of consoles from Blaze Entertainment are pretty awesome. With the company due to release their latest upgraded Evercade cartridges and consoles next week (althoug...

Hey Podskags! We're not above trying to be popular okay? We are happy to get down in the Pandoran dirt and release a Borderlands podcast to coincide with a tent pole summer blockbuster movie. What we're not too happy to see is that the movie looks like it is going to flop harder than a Claptrap unit being (rightfully) booted off a cliff... Maybe everyone is just Bored-erlands right now? Let's forg...

Hi podfans. Thank Goodness You're Here... Literally. An alliance is "a relationship where people or separate groups come together to work towards a common goal". According to the internet... somewhere... we think. So this week we thought it would be great to bring together two 'alliance' games to work alongside each other to make a retro handheld gaming podcast! Our game links become more tenuous...

Hi podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' 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! Which tenuous link should we use this week to string together our randomly chosen games? Falling? Yes that seems...