Video Game Hangover

We kick off the summer Backlog Attack and immediately get into our first two games: Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge , and New Pokemon Snap ! Also: Old Pokemon Snap ! Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Game shows (9:11) - Backlog Attack (28:03) - New Pokemon Snap (53:37) - Crimson Skies (1:10:01) - Outro

Randy once again finds himself in a Luigi mansion in Luigi's Mansion 2 . Meanwhile, D.J. wonders if there's more to life than talking to another three NPCs in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail . Also, it's true: Suika Game . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/AI, VR, SPQR, etc. (13:10) - Xbox store closing (18:42) - Suika Game (31:43) - Luigi's Mansion 2 (48:05) - FFXIV Dawntrail (1:11:15) - Outro

D.J. sets course for new shores in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail . Meanwhile, Randy comes to terms with being a cat in Little Kitty, Big City . Also: Stumbling through Legend of Zelda: Four Swords in 2024. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (3:04) - Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (21:34) - Little Kitty, Big City (37:40) - Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail (1:07:13) - Outro

Randy finally gets to see what all the fuss is about in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door . Meanwhile, D.J. outsources his FFXIV expansion prep. Also: All the news and non-news from fake E3. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Still Slaying (11:47) - Fake E3 season (27:22) - One week left (34:53) - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (1:00:33 - Angeline Era minute (1:06:09) - Outro

Randy makes friends in caves in Animal Well . Meanwhile, D.J. is still playing the same Final Fantasy . (No, not that one.) Also: Trying to make sense of We Were Here Expeditions . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/D.J. abroad (12:57) - We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip (28:28) - New music feat. rj lake (30:31) - 9 Final 9 Fantasy (43:52) - Animal Well (1:07:34) - Outro

D.J. shoots up an entire overworld map in Minishoot' Adventures . Meanwhile, Randy tries to solve the mystery of plants in Botany Manor . Also: Which enormous RPGs to take on your overseas vacation. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Content Warning (12:05) - Vacation gaming (29:06) - Minishoot' Adventures (51:07) - Botany Manor (1:10:20) - Outro

Randy and D.J. return from jaunting around the snail-infested Old World in Content Warning . Also: Screening aliens for therapy in Mars after Midnight , hurling lizards in Dragon's Dogma II , and Final Fantasy IX : What is it? Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Steam Deck exists (19:26) - Content Warning (36:44) - Final Fantasy IX (45:58) - Dragon's Dogma II (57:47) - Mars after Midnight (1:20:35) -...

With help from a horde of interdimensional weird guys, D.J. slowly figures out how to play Dragon's Dogma II . Meanwhile, Randy enjoys(?) the royal double-feature of Princess Peach: Showtime! and Super Princess Peach . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Secret Games: Even Secreter (13:04) - Dragon's Dogma II (42:35) - Princess Peach: Showtime! (55:30) - Super Princess Peach (1:11:38) - Outro

D.J. spends hours meticulously prepping his Unicorn Overlord army just to skip to the end. Randy revisits the racehorse-solitaire classic, Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On . Plus: Princess Peach's big debut, yet more Persona 3 , and an exciting new Xbox game. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (5:53) - FFXIV on Xbox (10:01) - Persona 3 (27:31) - Princess Peach: Showtime! (34:06) - Unicorn Overlord (58:45)...

Randy gets Jokerized in poker roguelite Balatro . D.J. goes on an educational photography tour of virtual Japan in Shashingo . And menacing fish monsters draw near in Splatoon 3: Side Order . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (9:10) - Balatro (28:23) - Shashingo (49:41) - Splatoon 3: Side Order (1:08:22) - Outro

Randy and D.J. (re-)visit yet another haunted island in Another Code . Also: Secret games, deciphering that weird Xbox announcement, and accosted by endless hordes of sujimon in  Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Secret games (15:35) - Splatoon 3 stream! (20:44) - Special Podcast Update on the Xbox Official Podcast's Updates on the Xbox Business (34:53) - Another Cod...

Randy and D.J. compare notes on the first 100 hours of the Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth tutorial. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/A world of pals (12:28) - Like a Dragon Gaiden (18:40) - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (1:10:15) - Outro

D.J. attempts to speedrun Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name to get ready for even more Like a Dragon (if that's even what it's called). Meanwhile, Randy goes where no deck of cards has gone before in Cobalt Core . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (16:39) - Like a Dragon Gaiden (46:51) - Cobalt Core (1:13:10) - Outro  

What were the best games of 2023? Someone please tell us. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (11:28) - Resident Evil 4 (15:40) - Cocoon (18:37) - Chilla's Art: Parasocial (20:40) - Dredge (26:04) - Dave the Diver (34:35) - Final Fantasy XVI (39:49) - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (44:02) - Oxenfree II: Lost Signals (49:35) - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (1:02:12) - Street Fighter 6 (1:13:01)...

TEKKENNN 8! NEEEW CHALLENGERRRRR! GAAARRRYYYYYY BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSEEEYYYYY!   Episode Timeline (0:00) - Part 1 (1:13:50) - Part 2

Listen to our favorite game music of 2023 (and 1998, apparently) in this musical mega-episode. Featuring songs from Street Fighter 6 , Dave the Diver , Final Fantasy XVI , Dredge , Oxenfree 2 , and more!

Randy heads back to the space mines to do a little civic planning in SteamWorld Build . Meanwhile, D.J. flees from the cops and that classic EA racing dialogue in Need for Speed: Unbound . Also: Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Doing the big work (9:09) - Black Friday (13:11) - Need for Speed: Unbound (37:22) - SteamWorld Build (1:01:38 - Dragon Quest Monste...

Randy escorts a troupe of animals harboring a dark secret in KarmaZoo . Meanwhile, D.J. checks in on how far voice acting has come since 1998 in Star Ocean: The Second Story R . Also: Return to Jusant Mountain. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro (13:42) - 1998 (23:12) - Star Ocean: The Second Story R (42:52) - Jusant (1:00:34) - KarmaZoo (1:11:54) - Outro

Randy discovers there's much more to Dave the Diver than simply diving and... Daving? Meanwhile, D.J. ventures into Silent Hope 's endless dungeon with the help of his trusty maid. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Cleared the tier (21:04) - Silent Hope (36:27) - Persona 3 is long (39:41) - Dave the Diver (1:07:57) - Outro

We survived another year of Extra Life where once again we played an unhealthy amount of games, including Golf Gang , Mineko's Night Market , Chilla's Art: Parasocial , and more! Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Extra Life wrap-up (15:01) - Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (21:04) - Spelunky/Slay the Spire (29:33) - Golf Gang (36:42) - Jusant (39:53) - Korokoro Harley (45:05) - Mineko's Night Market (47:47)...

Randy gets in some quality watermelon time with Suika Game . Meanwhile, D.J. can't figure out what the flowers are trying to tell him in Super Mario Bros. Wonder . Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Extra Life (17:11) - It's Ridge Racer! (30:08) - Suika Game (46:53) - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (1:10:57) - Outro

Spooky season is in full effect with The Callisto Protocol , the haunted space-jail simulator, and Mundaun , the haunted mundaun simulator. Also, Randy's pokemon costume sparks a violent incident. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Trunk or track (14:30) - Extra Life (20:21) - The Callisto Protocol (47:20) - Mundaun (1:05:04) - Sunshine Manor (1:10:23) - Outro

We're back and are wasting no time placing orbs into other orbs in Cocoon . Also: Hands-on with the CRKD Nitro Deck for the Switch, because it's a dock that you hold! Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Extra Life (13:17) - Can't clear the tier (26:30) - Cocoon (54:22) - CRKD Nitro Deck (1:08:26) - Outro

It is 2023 and there is time for Asura's Wrath . Also, Randy embarks on a magical quest to Disney Illusion Island , and D.J. rediscovers the weirdness of the Nintendo 64. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Nintendo Sixty-Four (28:32) - Extra Life (33:15) - Asura's Wrath (57:22) - Disney Illusion Island (1:15:51) - Outro

Randy tries to become the world's best F-Zero player in F-Zero 99 . Meanwhile, D.J. threatens once again to talk about Asura's Wrath . Also: The latest Nintendo and Sony things. Episode Timeline (0:00) - Intro/Switch 2 rumors (15:06) - Nintendo thing (26:46) - Sony thing (38:15) - F-Zero 99 (56:05) - D.J.'s Movie Moment (1:01:58) - Outro