The Other Castle Podcast: Video Game Plot, Lore and More

Season 12 Episode 10 Tom & Andrea return to the Hamburger Samurai genre, this time with a new protagonist, in Ghost of Yotei. It's 300 years after the events of Ghost of Tsushima, and this time we follow Atsu on a revenge mission, after her entire life was destroyed at the tender age of twelve. The Yotei Six are her targets, and she'll search all of Ezo to find each one, and make them pay for thei...

Season 12 Episode 9 Tom & Andrea head back in time to 1940's Los Angeles for a dark mystery in LA Noire. We follow police officer Cole Phelps as he works through the ranks of the LAPD solving case after case of some truly gruesome crimes. Everything is connected in this thriller, as old friends and enemies come into his life to cause more drama than Cole can handle. Not to mention the drama he cre...

Season 12 Episode 8 Tom & Andrea head to the mean streets of Hong Kong as undercover detective Wei Shen in Sleeping Dogs. The Sun On Yee Triad gang needs to be taken down, and there's only one man for the job. This action-packed GTA style game packs more punches and kicks than you could imagine, and for some reason, Emma Stone too! Listen in if you want to relive or find out what happens in Sleepi...

Season 12 Episode 7 Tom & Andrea get stuck in another loop (or is it a spiral?) in Slay the Princess. We need a hero, a princess, a narrator, and the gamer to complete this visual novel turned gaming experience. It gets plenty cerebral in this one, so be sure you're paying attention. We take on the path Andrea went down for this one, as there are several you can take. Regardless, there's always a...

Season 12 Episode 6 Tom & Andrea set out to discover what the numbers mean in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Alex Mason wakes up to find himself being tortured for information. He has to recount his past, fighting through many battles during the Cold War era. From the Bay of Pigs, to Vietnam, Mason hunts down his target with his best friend and brother in arms, Viktor Reznov. It's a spy thriller and a w...

Season 12 Episode 5 Tom & Andrea kick it old school slasher style in Killer Frequency. Come along as we join DJ Forrest Nash on his late night call-in radio show in the tiny town of Gallows Creek. A mysterious killer is on the loose, and for some reason, Forrest is the only person who can save the town from his wrath. Who will survive the night? Who is the Whistling Man? Let's find out together as...

Season 12 Episode 4 Tom & Andrea make a return to the Underworld with Supergiant's first ever sequel, Hades 2. This time we play as Melinoe, daughter of Hades and Persephone, sister to Zagreus. The Titan Chronos has taken over the House of Hades, and locked away the entire family. Now it's our job to rescue them in this Roguelike Masterpiece. Come along if you've ever wondered what happens in Hade...

Season 12 Episode 3 Tom & Andrea join La Familia in the official first game in the Mafia franchise. Mafia: Definitive Edition. We join up with Tommy, a cabby in the windy city of Lost Heaven (it's Chicago) as he descends into the world of organized (and often disorganized) crime. It's the height of prohibition, and Tommy has to ask himself, how far is he willing to go for his family? More importan...

Season 12 Episode 2 Tom & Andrea take on one of the most complex games ever made with Baldur's Gate 3. A CRPG that changed the genre forever, setting a new standard. Come along with us as we awaken in a strange place, with no memory of how we got there. From there, we go on one of the most intense (and quite frankly, sexy) adventures in gaming. Have you ever wondered what happens in Baldur's Gate...

Season 12 Episode 1 Tom & Andrea take on the role of hero in Dispatch. We team up with Robert Robertson, former superhero, as he starts his new job as a dispatcher at the Superhero Dispatch Network in danger-ridden Los Angeles. With his Mechaman suit destroyed, he helps the city the only way he can: by sending out the Z Team to handle the city's crime. The problem is, Z Team is full of former supe...

Bonus Episode Tom & Andrea settle in for the Holidays with Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Peter Parker is on winter break from superhero duty, so freshman crime fighter Miles Morales is all alone this Christmas as he defends NYC from a new villain. A mysterious figure known as the Tinkerer. Even worse, it seems this new baddie may have ties to Miles himself. Come along for this special gift of a Bonus...

Season 11 Episode 10 Tom & Andrea join forces with Sam Porter Bridges and his trusty infant sidekick, Lou, for another adventure in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Listen along as we had back into the Chiralverse. This time, an old enemy has returned from the other side. Still hellbent on destroying the world, but this time with a little more motivation. Come find out why this game is another con...

Interlude While Tom & Andrea deal with some technical difficulties, you get to enjoy an episode out of our Patreon vault. We return to the wild west to battle the rising zombie masses in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. John Marston is once again on a mission to save his family. Only this time, with a horror twist. We'll see our old friends, both living and undead, for a surprisingly funny e...

Season 11 Episode 9 Tom & Andrea join back up with Nathan Drake for his third adventure in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. This time, Sully has a mission for us that he's spent his entire life chasing. It brings in family, friends, lovers, and haters alike. This time we traverse the desert in search of a city, long thought to have been lost. Is it magic, or something far more sinister at play? Lis...

Season 11 Episode 8 Tom & Andrea threw on their school robes for Hogwarts Legacy. A hundred years before the events of Harry Potter, you take on the role of a new student at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. To make matters more complicated, you also have the ability to access long forgotten magic that hasn't been seen in 400 years. Oh, and there's also a goblin rebellion, and school wo...

Season 11 Episode 7 Tom & Andrea take a trip behind the iron curtain in Atomic Heart. Come join P3 and his AI companion as they trek around Russia in an altered-history where Russia saved the world after WW2. There are robots, diseases, and more Bioshock references than an actual Bioshock game. All that being said, there are concerns about this title supporting Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine...

Season 11 Episode 6 Tom & Andrea team back up with Marcus Fenix and the other members of Delta Squad to kill some Locusts in Gears of War 2. It's been 6 months since the events of the previous game, and the enemy is coming back stronger than ever. Or at least it appears they are stronger than ever. But perhaps there's more to this sudden invasion? Come along and find out for yourself. There's plen...

Season 11 Episode 5 Tom & Andrea join forces with the world's most famous whip-wielding archeologist in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Come along on an adventure fit for the big screen, as Indy battles giants in his hunt for the largest ancient relic of his already storied career. Come find out if Machine Games managed to transition from Wolfenstein to a property owned by the house of mouse....

Season 11 Episode 4 Tom & Andrea take's on the most world's most notorious crime fighter during his early days in Batman: Arkham Origins. Someone has put out a hit on Batman's head, and every assassin in Gotham City is out for a piece of the action. Come find out why crime boss Black Mask has suddenly taken an interest in the masked man overseeing the doomed city, offering a staggering sum of mone...

Season 11 Episode 3 Tom & Andrea return to rat-plague-infested France in A Plague Tale: Requiem. We join back up with Amicia and her little brother Hugo, this time as they battle a medievil doomsday cult. One that has made a shocking prediction. Come along as Hugo unleashes the macula, and teaches some bad guys a lesson or two. Thanks for hanging out with us! Connect with us directly on all the th...

Season 11 Epsiode 2 Tom & Andrea set forth on the greatest expedition of all time in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Listen in as we depart the wrecked beauty Lumiere and descend into a dangerous and mysterious world. Where things aren't always what they seem, friends keep begging to fight, and the most powerful creature in all of existance has a really funny-looking butt; and also vomits wine. It's...

Tom & Andrea take on the mob in Mafia: The Old Country. Join us as we follow Enzo through Sicily, making friends and more importantly, enemies. Listen in as he rises through the ranks of the Italian mob, years before they got their hands dirty in the USA. He will go up against thugs, bruisers, goons, and even dons. If you consider yourself part of La Familia, this is the episode for you. Thanks fo...

Bonus Episode  Tom & Andrea take on characters in a way we never have before in It Takes Two! May and Cody are splitting up, but their daughter Rose will do anything to keep them together. In whatever form that may take. Including, having them turned into dolls! Come along on this pre-seaon bonus episode that you can also see a live playthrough of, free of charge on our Youtube channel, which you...

Season 10 Episode 10 Tom & Andrea team back up with gaming's most notorious treasure hunter, Nathan Drake, in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. It's a heist and a treasure hunt all rolled into one beautiful package. Nathan Drake is searching for Marco Polo's lost treasure, and this time he has his mysterious on-again-off-again, quadruple-crossing lady friend Chloe by his side. Don't worry, Last Year's M...

Season 10 Episode 9 Tom & Andrea kick off their 100th game (probably) by going deeper than ever before in Subnautica. Come along as we are stranded on planet 4546B, surrounded by water, with no way home. It's time to survive, as we collect minerals and materials in order to build a shelter for what could be a long stay. That is if the mysterious illness eating away at our insides doesn't take us f...