Married with Video Games Podcast

If you want some of the best combat out there, both in looks and feel, then man do we have a game for you. Stellar Blade absolutely rocks the combat. The story is absolutely nothing to write home about and all of the characters are bland, but we'll be dreaming about that combat for quite some time.

Matthew and Christina jumped headfirst into the Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC. It's all sorts of wonderful, from a pitch-perfect fanfic to a Control tie-in to multiverse traversal a la Quantum Break (if we can even say that), fans will really enjoy these three bite-sized episodes. We absolutely did. You shouldn't even be surprised; we're drinking the Remedyverse Kool-Aid.

In the rephrased words of Milhouse on The Simpsons, "It took two months, but we did it. It's done." Spoiler alert: We did not like this game, and that may make this our most controversial episode. Let's talk about it!

Hades II launched into early access on PC out of the blue, and Christina has been playing the crap out of it. This game is incredibly polished for being early access, and these are our thoughts on it after playing about a dozen or so hours!

Matthew is slowly making his way through Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and we give our impressions on the first half of the game. And then pivot to how much we both loved the Stellar Blade demo!

Matthew played through Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. We did it! We beat the two games we wanted to before Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth! This is a great follow-up to the first game and a fun return to the Star Wars universe.

Christina played through Nobody Saves the World as Matthew waits for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. It's a creative action RPG that has a ton of potential that we only realized while recording this podcast.

Matthew downloaded the God of War Ragnarok: Valhalla DLC and played through it over the course of three evenings. For being a free DLC from a AAA studio, this sure added a ton of lore and gave a well-crafted epilogue to the 2023 game.

Matthew and Christina are still deep in the Remedy-verse, visiting 2016's Quantum Break. Time travel hijinks! Iceman! Characters who show up in Control and Alan Wake II but not really for copyright reasons! Emails!

Welcome to the first podcast of 2024! Matthew and Christina are still on their Remedy kick, throwing it back to the 2001 Max Payne. We have some thoughts on this old school game and are interested to see what the future remake has in store.

It's our annual roundup episode where we discuss every game we played in 2023, games we started and didn't finish, and go through our favorites/least favorites and take you on some wild tangents. Come along for the ride!

Matthew finished Alan Wake II, even managing to platinum the game, and Christina was along for the whole twisty, dark, horrifying ride. Remedy's latest game is all sorts of fantastic for so many reasons and we barely even scratch the surface.

Christina played through the Kickstarted Sea of Stars that had Matt constantly looking up songs from Chrono Trigger. It's the perfect throwback and spiritual successor to that long line of RPGs and we had a ton of fun with it.

It's our annual spooky game podcast! While not necessarily spooky, Death's Door fits thematically. Christina had a great time playing and Matthew enjoyed watching (and actually played a bit of it when it came out in 2021).

Christina dove headfirst into Dave the Diver and its scuba/fishing and restaurant management sim, and Matthew came along for the ride. This one throws a lot at you and it's definitely a lot to take in.

It's a long one this time around, with Christina finally having beaten The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom after 100 hours. Matthew was just along for the ride. There's a lot to discuss in this episode, and heavy spoiler alert for the story towards the end of the episode!

It's another interlude episode! With Christina taking her sweet time with Tears of the Kingdom, we fill the lack of episodes by looking at five video games coming out in the second half of 2023 that we will absolutely be playing.

Matthew played through the Resident Evil 4 Remake and neither he nor Christina played the original, so there's no nostalgia lenses going into this one. That being said, it's still a solid third-person shooter!

Christina has played as much Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as possible with a toddler in the house while Matthew has been forced to sit and watch. These are our first thoughts with no spoilers about the story, but a few mild spoilers regarding items, enemies, and changes to Hyrule.

Christina played through Dredge while Matthew watched and had to deal with secondhand creepiness from this fantastic, Lovecraftian, creepy... fishing game? Yes, fishing game.

Matthew and Christina are doing something different for this episode. With the success of The Last of Us on HBO, we brainstorm five different video game franchises that would make great TV adaptations, with a couple of honorary mentions.

Matthew played through Hogwarts Legacy while Christina watched and realized how much niche and useless Harry Potter trivia still resides in her brain. If you grew up with the series and always wanted to explore  Hogwarts, man, do we have a game for you.

Christina played the heck out of Diablo IV during its beta weekend. Matthew mostly watched, but got a chance to play as a necromancer. These are our disjointed thoughts on it and what we hope for when it comes out in June!

Matthew played through God of War Ragnarok and Christina enjoyed pretty much every second of it. We have minimal complaints and fawn over the vastly different realms you traverse as well as where the story takes you.

It took seven in-game years and 165 hours, but Christina did it! She 100-percented Stardew Valley! Her and Matthew go through all of what that entailed and how much of an endeavor it really was.