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THIS WEEK: Joe battles Chaos with the four Warriors of Light and their crystals with Ryoue Takagi's work in Final Fantasy.

THIS WEEK: Joe travels with his adoptive daughter to the surface after getting banished from his underground village in Eastward and Peter customizes and extends his upper appendages to become the Grand Prix Champion with Eliana Silva's work in ARMS.

THIS WEEK: Peter cheats death to become a luchador and save El Presidente's daughter with Rom Di Prisco's work in Guacamelee! and Joe boards the USG Ishimura to find some answers while severing the limbs of Necromorphs in Dead Space.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter celebrate the podcast's four-year anniversary by reflecting on top 5 lists of arranged and original music tracks for a game in the series that started their friendship and their love of video game music - Super Smash Bros. Melee.

THIS WEEK: Peter moves to the beat on the Midnight Stage in order to find the missing members of a musical group with Ryota Kozuka's work in Persona 4: Dancing All Night and Joe tours Japan to dive into the Metaverse once again and investigate the stealing of desires in Persona 5 Strikers.

THIS WEEK: Joe makes the strategic choice between his blood family and the family that raised him in Fire Emblem Fates and Peter perpetuates the cycle of violence through Ellie's quest for revenge with Mac Quayle's work in The Last of Us Part II.

THIS WEEK: Peter creates a non-canon ending to the Wano Country arc in the next swashbuckling anime Musou in One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 and Joe ricochets off of giant shard-based monsters while recruiting a team of friends with Big Giant Circles' work in Beast Breaker.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter present their combined list of the top 10 best game soundtracks of 2022

THIS WEEK: Peter fuses adventure with puzzles to unravel the secret of St. Mystere in Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Joe uncovers the truth behind a ghost that is haunting a Japanese hotel with Kevin Manthei's work in Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge.

THIS WEEK: Joe paints a piece for an upcoming exhibition while dealing with his colors going missing in Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery and Peter rallies the troops to stop the Runefaust horde and the Dark Dragon with Masahiko Yoshimura's work in Shining Force.

THIS WEEK: Peter shifts to a new motion control scheme while dealing with the effects of Phazon with Masaru Tajima's work in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Joe works his body down the snowy course to pull off secret tricks in 1080º Snowboarding.

THIS WEEK: Joe wants to topple the Demon King by exuding attitude and shooting fire from his fits with M.R. Miller's work in Demon Turf and Peter gets tangled up in an intergalactic battle for Faith Energy on the way to pay a fine in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter present their combined list of the top 10 best game soundtracks of the 2010s, as informed by surveyed fan voting regarding games from 2010-2019

THIS WEEK: Joe reimagines the Generation II heritage of Johto with a best friend following along on Nintendo DS in Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver and Peter steps into the third dimension of Kalos and Generation VI on 3DS with Hideaki Kuroda's work in Pokémon X & Y.

THIS WEEK: Peter raids Saxon cities to build up his Viking establishment of Ravensthorpe in Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Joe discovers the history of a magical family heirloom through the exploration of a Norwegian town with Mattis Folkestad's work in Embracelet.

THIS WEEK: Peter mines for materials in a procedurally generated universe that experiences a disastrous debut and a remarkable rebirth with 65daysofstatic's work in No Man's Sky.

THIS WEEK: Peter hits the climax again to find the Gates of Hell amidst chaos to save a dear friend in Bayonetta 2 and Joe finds inspiration from that town as he makes his way through a city full of disgusting monsters with Jasper Byrne's work in Lone Survivor.

THIS WEEK: Joe guides a dog through a survival horror journey while being objectified by the creepy inhabitants of a castle with Seiko Kobuchi's work in Haunting Ground and Peter takes your heart with the addition of a third semester to the Phantom Thieves' definitive experience in Persona 5 Royal.

THIS WEEK: Joe solves the mystery of a murdered high school girl and the possible connection to a rumored ghostly entity that appears at night with Takeshi Abo's work in Famicom Detective Club II: The Girl Who Stands Behind.

THIS WEEK: Joe helps a sad girl buy some dairy from the grocery store with Nikita Kryukov's work in Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk & Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk and Peter brings heroes together to deliver the payload and open lootboxes in Overwatch.

THIS WEEK: Peter adds dialog trees to revolutionize the point-and-click adventure genre in a pirate adventure through the SCUMM Engine with Michael Land's work in The Secret of Monkey Island.

THIS WEEK: Joe tries to remember his past as a detective while running a range of skill checks and unraveling what's going on in the poverty-ridden district of Martinaise with British Sea Power's work in Disco Elysium.

THIS WEEK: Peter shoots some more ink as a squid during turf wars in a sequel on a much bigger console install base with Splatoon 2 and Joe directs three teens to leave their country so they can be free from an authoritarian government before election day with The Toxic Avenger's work in Road 96.

THIS WEEK: Joe reads a tale about opening doors through time to explore why an idyllic mansion has a terrible curse with Yusuke Tsutsumi's work in The House in Fata Morgana and Peter descends into the underwater city of Rapture to uncover its terrible fate in BioShock.

THIS WEEK: Peter swings out of Harlem with Insomniac's tighter superhero experience at the launch of the PlayStation 5 in Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Joe summons his stand to a 3D fighting game featuring characters from a manga franchise across eight parts with Chikayo Fukuda's work in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle.