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THIS WEEK: Peter dons the cowl to make tough choices with Gotham's first season of a point-and-click adventure in Batman: The Telltale Series and Joe mysteriously finds himself in the world of Ivalice and struggles with the idea of returning home with Hitoshi Sakimoto's work in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.

THIS WEEK: Joe ventures into Lordran with the influentially bleak and brutal action game that created its own subgenre in Dark Souls and Peter bounces on a cane like a pogo stick to increase his wealth with Hiroshige Tonomura's work in DuckTales.

THIS WEEK: Peter treads the path of the World Warrior in a heavily influential 2D fighting game with Isao Abe's work in Super Street Fighter II Turbo and Joe brawls in 3v3 team combat before tag fighting games hit the scene in The King of Fighters '95.

THIS WEEK: Joe loads his mind into Vitalia to interact with spirits in a virtual reality-inspired visual novel with Chase Bethea's work in < /Reality > and Peter gushes over cartridge lock-on technology while uncovering one of game music's most legendary stories with the King of Pop in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter celebrate the podcast's three-year anniversary by reflecting on a top 10 list for a game in the series that started their friendship and their love of video game music - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

THIS WEEK: Joe mashes up everyone's favorite monster collecting franchise with a strategy RPG about historical Japanese warfare in Pokémon Conquest and Peter travels to the Orre region to free creatures with corrupted hearts through double battles and no wild encounters with Tsukasa Tawada's work in Pokémon Colosseum.

THIS WEEK: Peter takes the reins of an iconic first-person shooter franchise to push it into a new generation without its original creators with Neil Davidge's work in Halo 4.

THIS WEEK: Joe starts a rhythmic rock revolution in a city that is taken over by EDM with Andy Tunstall's work in No Straight Roads and Peter discovers the subgenre of character action to fill his dark soul with light in Devil May Cry.

THIS WEEK: Peter becomes a Shardbinder to reimagine Castlevania gameplay through a Kickstarter-backed spiritual successor with Keisuke Ito's work in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and Joe needs to find things to do at home when a downpour ruins the day's plans in Rainy Season.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter present their combined list of the top 10 best game soundtracks of 2021

THIS WEEK: Peter becomes the director of a government agency to find a sibling and root out the Hiss in Control and Joe befriends departed souls to complete their final tasks before saying goodbye with Max LL's work in Spiritfarer.

THIS WEEK: Joe navigates a princess through MC Escher-inspired impossible geometry in Monument Valley and Peter frees Ptolemaic Egypt from the grasp of the Order of the Ancients with Sarah Schachner's work in Assassin's Creed Origins.

THIS WEEK: Peter teaches students at Garreg Mach Monastery as Fódlan is on the brink of war in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Joe flees to Ishgard to clear his name and discover the truth of The Dragonsong War with Susan Calloway's work in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward.

THIS WEEK: Joe leads a little robot on a journey to save a grungy city and his friends inside of it in Machinarium and Peter wields an energy sword on a 16-bit quest to find the cure to an illness with Akash Thakkar's work in Hyper Light Drifter.

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter take a Thanksgiving break from dissecting game soundtracks and the critical five songs within them, in order to answer some questions that have been asked by listeners

THIS WEEK: Joe steps into the Galar region to find a controversy that got Dynamaxed out of proportion in Pokémon Sword & Shield and Peter discovers how much water is too much in a remade Hoenn with Hitomi Sato's work in Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire.

THIS WEEK: Peter attempts daring heists with two other protagonists in the exciting city of Los Santos with Edgar Froese's work in Grand Theft Auto V and Joe becomes the Demi-Fiend to appeal to the Vortex World's Kagutsuchi in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne.

THIS WEEK: Joe rotates a planet to control happy solid-colored orbs that can split and merge in LocoRoco and Peter remembers "No Russian" and the first-person shooter that took a franchise to stratospheric heights with Hans Zimmer's work in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

THIS WEEK: Joe dives into what remains of humanity at the derelict undersea facility known as PATHOS-II with Mikko Tarmia's work in SOMA.

THIS WEEK: Joe grabs his camera to snag the latest ghoulish scoop at Willamette Parkview Mall in Dead Rising and Peter swerves with a motion-controlled plastic wheel alongside 12 racing bikes with Asuka Ohta's work in Mario Kart Wii.

THIS WEEK: Peter drops into the Rook Islands to become the Rakyat warrior he was apparently always destined to be in Far Cry 3 and Joe spends his first day on the police force dealing with the zombie outbreak in Raccoon City with Shusaku Uchiyama's work in Resident Evil 2 (1998).

THIS WEEK: Joe starts spooky season with a light gun rail shooter aimed at terribly voiced Venetian zombies with Tetsuya Kawauchi's work in The House of the Dead 2 and Peter controls the tilted direction of the floor to move orbed simians to the goal in Super Monkey Ball.

THIS WEEK: Peter picks up the adventurous trail of Marco Polo's journey to Shambhala in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Joe dives back into the career of fulfilling deathbed dreams through memory alteration with Kan Gao and Chris Ryker's work in Finding Paradise.

THIS WEEK: Joe navigates rooms filled with spinning buzzsaws while learning that dying to them can be acceptable with Doseone's work in Disc Room and Peter tackles Cold War nuclear deterrence through portable stealth in 1970s Central America in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

THIS WEEK: Peter uses logic and rebuttals as a prosecutor at crime scenes to unravel an international smuggling ring in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Joe starts a private detective agency in London to work small cases in the shadow of an iconic father with Kana Nishino's work in Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy.