The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, we are not ninjas. What happens when a franchise reaches incredible heights and has nowhere to go but outward? A grand adventure to collect the icons of the elements, if you can survive controlling it. We take a look at one of Mortal Kombat's first experiments and see how it holds up.

This week on The Free Cheese, prepare for Titanfall. We return to Titanfall 2 this episode to check in on the multiplayer community and see the campaign through. We discuss how it holds up after eight years, and how much first-person shooters have changed since its release, then rank it on The List .

This week on The Free Cheese, welcome to the year of Metroid! We revisit the most divisive entry in the Metroid series ahead of the release of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond this year. We examine the unique controls, the emphasis on story, and action-oriented combat. Then, we rank it on The List as our first ranking in Season 13.

This week on The Free Cheese, let's predict 2025. For the debut of our thirteenth season, we look ahead at 2025. We see how we fared in predicting 2024 and then make our claims for the year ahead. We also give a taste of what to expect this season on the podcast and discuss some of the initial games we'll be playing.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's the end of Season 12 — Part Two. In our finale, we each share the games we played in 2024 that made an impression on us. We discuss some of the headlines from the year and bring things to a close with a peek ahead at Season 13.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's the end of Season 12 - Part One. As we bring Season 12 to a close in a two-part episode, we shake up The List with science and math. We also discuss the games we loved the most from this year's episodes and everything that surprised us along the way.

This week on The Free Cheese, making friends with old computers. In January , we each purchased a console we never owned before and have spent the year with it. Matt selected the PSP and Joe the Xbox. After twelve months with them, we reconvene to discuss the highs and lows of each. We discuss the games that we've played, what it's like to use the hardware today, and share the surprises that each...

This week on The Free Cheese, live in your world, listen in ours. We celebrate the 30th anniversary of PlayStation one generation at a time. We discuss the launch of the brand, how it has evolved, and where we hope it goes. Through each generation, we look at the best selling games and key innovations introduced.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's been a while. We return to the adventure and see how the year turned out for our fitness journeys. We discuss how to maintain momentum with a routine and what we think Ring Fit Adventure does to encourage returning to it each day. Then, we rank it as our final ranking for Season 12.

This week on The Free Cheese, who's on top? After four different, multi-part episodes and two post-mortem episodes, it's time we rank our Wii Sports Killers. We give our final word on Wii Sports and discuss why it has remained at the top of our list for this long. Then, we rank the games that propped up this season.

This week on The Free Cheese, guns and monsters. We continue our Wii Sports Killers discussion with our remaining thoughts on Halo: Combat Evolved and Pokémon Gold and Silver. We look a bit at them individually and what they represent historically, then compare them against one another.

This week on The Free Cheese, blocks and mushrooms. As we approach the end of the season, we look back on Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Tetris Effect: Connected. We have a final discussion on our time with each game, then compare them ahead of our pending ranking against Wii Sports.

This week on The Free Cheese, we close the gap. Throughout 2024, we hosted monthly streams where we checked in with some of our childhood favorites from the 16-bit era. Now, we're reviewing and ranking Super Strike Eagle , Krusty's Super Fun House , Scooby-Doo Mystery , and Sonic Spinball on The List.

This week on The Free Cheese, point and click. The car has crashed and we're at a haunted house. Everything is black and white and—oh, that's the nature of the Macintosh. In Uninvited, we're finding the secrets in every corner of every room and learning the truth of sorcery trapped in the walls of this house. Will we find our brother and escape alive? Maybe. Eventually...

This week on The Free Cheese, I don't wanna talk about it! We add the last in line of classic Resident Evil games to The List. We share our strategies for combatting some of the troubles we encountered, revel in the absurdity of the story, and highlight one of the best soundtracks in video games.

This week on The Free Cheese, BYORPG. We add perhaps the most indie game so far to The List with 2012's RPG Maker classic, Ib. We explore the art gallery and the horrors within, solving puzzles and trying to find our way back out with some friends.

This week on The Free Cheese, we get lost in the plot. We're rolling through FMV backgrounds one screen at a time as we discover the nuance of Fear Effect. We discuss its supernatural plot, its attempt at survival horror gameplay, and how well the game's art holds up today. Then, we rank it on The List.

This week on The Free Cheese, Spartans who play together... We play through the campaign together on the couch and come together for one final episode on Halo: Combat Evolved before we rank it later this year. We share the highs and lows of playing together and how successful our speedrun tactics were.

This week on The Free Cheese, we learned something today. We both collectively wonder why we ever fell off of this game at its release and add South Park: The Fractured But Whole to The List. We discuss our respective journeys through the story and struggle to find a bad thing to say throughout.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're all sackdudes, hey!   We revisit Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet and explore its single player campaign to see how it holds up. We also discuss the loss of the game's internet connectivity and the unfortunate absence of its greatest features.  

This week on The Free Cheese, you got green stars? We cover the second half of Super Mario Galaxy 2 and discuss our favorite moments from the final stages. We revisit some of our favorites from the campaign as a whole and look ahead at chasing 100% completion. We also look at the Wii Remote and its role in the gameplay overall.

This week on The Free Cheese, grab a Beam Cola and head to class. What happens when you repurpose a city sandbox engine for one of the world's most popular video games and use it to build a school campus? Rockstar sought to find out in 2006 with Bully and we spend this week adding it to The List. We go deep on its story, side missions, class structure, and everything in between as we lose five poi...

This week on The Free Cheese, super brother. We add one of the Dreamcast's most interesting innovations to The List this week with Smilebit's Jet Grind Radio. We discuss how different the gameplay feels in comparison to games before and after and reflect on the iconic soundtrack and style introduced 24 years ago.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's all part of the journey. The second half of our Tetris Effect: Connected discussion picks up with a focus on the single player mode that made the game so special in 2018. We recant our memories of playing it for the first time and share what it feels like to revisit Journey Mode all these years after. We also explore our personal theming and word associations wit...

This week on The Free Cheese, thank you Player570. You have earned 100 points. We revisit a game we both left unfinished and follow up last year's addition of Year Walk to The List. This time, we're spinning our mobile devices in circles and listening closely to the sounds between the lines in Device 6.