This Game Where

This week, Chris and Ashley are transported to a far away land where Monsters rule! That's right, Chris and Ashley have mostly been trading in their tablets for a host of strange creatures in Monster Rancher Advance 2, a game that sees players coralling and cajoling their ranch buddies into becoming the best of the best.   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rat...

To celebrate this week's release of The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe (4/27, the same number as is on Stanley's cubicle in the game, fact fans), we are revisiting the original version from 2013. The game is unlike anything else we've played - listen in to find out what makes it so remarkable! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you p...

After Chris' Rosebud drop last week, Ashley had a hankering for some of the original The Sims - so here it is! We delve deep into the myriad expansion packs available, discuss how the game strives to reflect some distorted version of real life and reflect on why the game's overreliance on Comic Sans may induce some font snobbery. Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscri...

We take it back to 2001 this week to celebrate the news that Rockstar and Remedy are remastering Max Payne, this game where you solve a bad murder by shooting up loads of baddies. It's most famous for its use of bullet time and cracking script, but does it still play well? Listen in to find out! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if y...

One appropriately from the This Game Where vaults this week with Immortals: Fenyx Rising, a game that sees you take on the might of Greek myth to help out the pantheon of Olympos against a less than savoury big bad who has crawled out of the bowels of the earth. It's a real treat for anyone who likes to explore, but especially if any of the classic mythologies has ever captured your imagination. F...

Have you ever wanted to be the guy that gets everyone 'away' in a 'getaway'? It's definitely the main part, so you almost certainly have! This week, Chris tries to explain to Ashley why 'getting away' in Driver was a formative aspect of his childhood, and it involves another heartrending tale of lost friendship, so bring your tissues. Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, su...

Have you ever wanted to blast your way through a flurry of protozoic lifeforms with little to no narrative reason for doing so? That's exactly what Chris and Ashley have been doing this week with the help of the Bitmap Brothers and their game, Xenon 2 for the Sega Master System. A fast-paced, chaotic take on the shoot'em up, the game apparently has the player leaping across epochs to thwart the de...

Happy birthday to us! To celebrate our centenary, we've gone off-piste to discuss what we both agree is the best console of all time - the Nintendo Wii. Listen to us talk about our favourite games, those that we missed out on, the weird and wonderful peripherals and our most treasured memories of the console.    Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review a...

Chris and Ashley are island-hopping this week with Monkey Island 2, a bona fide classic and one of the most venerable entries of the early 90s adventure games set. Even if you've never played it, you have almost certainly heard of it, so join us and find out why it's still so worth playing after three decades!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review a...

Chris and Ashley have barely ever played any of the previous FromSoftware fare but, when the reviews started hitting throughout Thursday, Ashley started to get a little tingle he hadn't felt for quite some time and he plonked himself firmly on the bandwagon. Even then, though, he didn't anticipate that the game would impress him so thoroughly that he would absolutely have to talk to Chris about it...

DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power on the Switch is a surprisingly good game; in this episode, Chris explains to Ashley just why that's the case. Along the way, though, there are debates about social media for children, the perils of consumerism and accidental sexism. Bet you weren't expecting that! Listen in to find out our thoughts on these - alongside discussions of the brawling, exploration and R...

The Game Boy Advance was the console that just wouldn't stop, and Kuru Kuru Kururin was just one of the places it began when it released alongside the handheld in 2001. The game is a unique puzzley-mazey affair in which a pastel-coloured flock of bird cousins is kidnapped and the lone left-behind tasked with saving them. He ventures out in his helirin to navigate through a bunch of tight corridors...

The latest iteration of the Winter Olympics is here, and what better reason to revisit the Mega Drive's snow-laden slice of sporting pageantry of the same name? Can Chris and Ashley take what is arguably their rightful place among the titans of mountainside sports? Or will the intrepid duo take a tumble? Listen along to find out!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subsc...

The final entry in our four-part face-off between a folically-gifted pipe artist and his erinaceous azure nemesis sees Chris and Ashley adventure across a variety of far-flung kingdoms in pursuit of the oft-kidnapped Princess Peach. We'll just say this up front: we both love Super Mario Odyssey, so it's maybe a little unfair to pit it against anything Sonic, but that's what's happening. To find ou...

True to form and his strangest compulsions, Chris follows up his pick of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with a game of the same name! This time round, we're grabbing the Game Gear to delve into the many zones of the portable entry. Sonic's second Mega Drive outing left our hosts reasonably happy, but can the blue blur pull it off a second time? Listen in and find out!   Come join us on all the usual socials...

The showdown is heating up with round two of Mario and Sonic Month here at This Game Where! This week, Ashley has brought with him another marvellous Mario entry for the Game Boy Advance. But this ain't your Grandad's Mario game. This is Superstar Saga, the first in the Mario & Luigi series of RPGs that made their name on Nintendo's handhelds over the last couple of decades. It's Mario, but maybe...

The Beatles vs The Rolling Stones! Pepsi vs Coke! Sonic vs Mario! There have been many heated battles over the years and, this month, This Game Where are dipping a toe into the waters of Sonic and Mario again. First up, Chris is bringing Sonic 2 for the Sega Mega Drive, possibly his favourite game ever, jampacked with rings, running and Robotnik. But does it live up to its legacy? You'll have to g...

The new year brings with it a game that's brand new to both Chris and Ashley, and our first listener suggestion! Future Cop LAPD is just like football (soccer for those that need it) in that it's a game of two very distinct halves and neither of your hosts is particularly good at it. The single player campaign is quite an easygoing run 'n' gun full of fun, while the second game mode sees players g...

We've done it, everyone! One more year down, and who knows how many to go? What better way to celebrate getting another big set of days out of the way than to look back on what made them pass so smoothly? Join Chris and Ashley this week as they reflect on the games that gave them joy in 2021, and stay tuned to the end to find out what they're hoping to enjoy come the new year! Come join us on all...

Our fourth festive folly arrives just in time for the big day, and it's a good job because it is all about the big man himself, Santa Claus! You might think Papa Crimbo's gaming appearances would be limited, but Chris and Ashley discuss nine of them here and there are so many more that it could've been another three hours long! So if you're lacking in the Christmas spirit, maybe find your comfiest...

We're straying into genuine cultural phenomenon territory for our third Christmas episode of 2021. Wii Sports and its console namesake came close to taking over the world in the late 2000s, with the former becoming the best selling game of all time, taking over all entertainment responsibilities at family gatherings across the globe for a solid few years. Nintendo captured new audiences and bridge...

Week two of our festive frolics and Chris has brought a classic for Ashley to play in the form of Mega Bomberman. Is it a multiplayer hit worthy of the season, or is it an explosive incendiary device all of its own? You'll have to listen in to find out exactly what our intrepid hosts think! If you can squeeze it in between the Christmas shopping, please do give us a follow over at: Twitter YouTube...

It's the most wonderful time of the year once more and we are back at it with another feast of fancy gaming-related goodies suitable for any gamer. Whether you're buying for yourself or someone you love, this week's episode is packed full of ideas that will help you spread the festive cheer to that special gamer in your life. If you can squeeze it in between the Christmas shopping, please do give...

This week's game is a petrolhead's dream, or at least it might be - Chris and Ashley don't really know what one is, so it's really just a guess. But Super Monaco GP on the Sega Master System is a game about cars, and fast ones at that! Touted as a racing simulation game when it released in 1990, there's more than a little room for debate whether it hits the brief, and even more for whether it's wo...

Chris completes a trilogy, of sorts, this week with his choice of Chicken Run on the Playstation. As he explains it, this is the third stealth-based experience on the PlayStation that he was playing alongside Metal Gear Solid, a game that has featured not once but twice on the show in the last month. Yes, it sounds odd to combine the two, but it does make an odd kind of sense, too, but you'll have...