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This week, we are doing a full spoilercast for Metaphor ReFantazio with MrTheHuman! We discuss our favorite moments, characters, sequel ideas, and more!

Timecodes

What we're playing - 5:22

Spoilercast - 21:45

News Spotlight - 1:45:12

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It's time to wrap up 2024 with our official Game of the Year show! And this year, it's a party with  @Cognitive-Clips  ,  @jkgamespodcast ,  @JakeTwitchinPlays ,  @gwtmori , and the triumphant return of our sweet Dumpster Boy!

Timecodes

Rules - 6:09

Pre-Top 10 - 8:20

10 - 13:10

9 - 18:54

8 - 24:25

7 - 30:32

6 - 35:10

5 - 39:43

4 - 48:36

3 - 55:16

2 - 1:00:40

1 - 1:10:23

Fun facts from everybody's lists - 1:17:20

Fantasy Critic Results - 1:20:35

More fun facts/audience submissions - 1:21:31

Kayla's Top 10 - 1:22:25

Mori's Top 10 - 1:27:46 

Patrick's Top 10 - 1:31:32

Kamen's Top 10 - 1:32:42

Jerica's Top 10 - 1:34:40

Jordan's Top 10 - 1:40:00

Jake's Top 83 - 1:43:28

The rest of the list - 1:47:05

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This week,  @Cognitive-Clips  and  @jkgamespodcast  came by to talk all about mental health in video games. What games have helped us in our own mental health journeys, what games represent mental health well, what do we hope to see from future video games on the subject?

Light content warning for discussing mental health 

Timecodes 

Mental health in video games - 4:05

Comfort food games - 6:45

Struggling to finish games - 30:00

Representation in gaming - 42:12

What we hope to see in games moving forward - 1:03:13

The current state of the industry with representation - 1:19:00

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This week, we have TWO weeks of news to catch up on, and boy oh boy there's a lot to discuss. We have 4 different showcases, and the largest video game leak of all time potentially. From Zelda Tears of the Kingdom to God of War Ragnarok, we have all the news for ya!

Time Codes:

What We're Playing: 6:15

Nintendo Direct highlights: 23:30

PlayStation State of Play highlights: 38:25

Ubisoft Showcase highlights: 47:00

Disney/Marvel Showcase highlights: 56:50

GTA6 Leak: 1:01:11

Calendar Update: 1:14:15

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The opening music on this episode is from Zelda Link to the Past, composed by Koji Kondo. We do not own the right to any music featured on this episode.

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For our 50th episode of Spotlight Games, we are celebrating by putting 64 PlayStation games against each other in a March Madness styled bracket to decide The Best PlayStation Game Ever! Our friend Jordan Conley joins us as our third chair to ensure there are no ties - and boy oh boy it's going to get SPICY! You can access the bracket in full on our twitter here. 

Time Codes:

The Bracket Explanation/Rules: 6:00

Round 1: 9:30

Round 2: 1:06:00

Sweet 16: 1:22:07

Elite 8: 1:42:26

Final 4: 1:47:40

The Final Round: 1:51:14

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The opening music on this episode is the opening music for the PlayStation 1 composed by Takafumi Fujisawa. We do not own the right to any music featured on this episode.

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In today's episode, we are talking about whether you need to play or wait on The Last of Us Part 1, we discuss a possible tease for Naughty Dog's next game within the new remake of The Last of Us, the future of the Assassin's Creed franchise is being unveiled this weekend, Wind Waker & Twilight Princess may finally be coming to switch, and the rest of this week's news.

Time Codes:

What we're playing: 6:20

Splatoon 3 reviews: 20:00

The Last of Us Pt. 1 reviews: 24:19

Is Naughty Dog teasing their next game in TLOU Pt 1?: 29:19

The future of Assassin's Creed: 33:00

Wind Waker and Twilight Princess maybe coming to Switch SOON: 42:48

Witcher 3 Next-Gen leak: 49:46

Calendar Update: 53:33

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The opening music on this episode is from Silver Surfer on NES, composed by Tim & Geoff Follin

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In today's episode, we are talking about PlayStation opening a Mobile Games division and what that might mean for the future, a bunch of updates on various movie adaptations (BioShock, Days Gone, Gravity Rush), Kamen guesses the top 10 best selling games of all time, and for our topic of the show, we discuss the 10 best games for the Nintendo GameCube!

Time Codes:

What we're playing: 5:35

PlayStation going Mobile: 25:56

A BioShock movie, a Days Gone movie, and a Gravity Rush movie: 32:46

Netflix's Resident Evil cancelled: 49:27

IGN's Top 10 GameCube Games: 54:16

A guessing game with our favorite Dumpster Boy: 1:10:20

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The opening music on this episode is from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, composed by Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, & Koji Kondo.

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On today's episode, we are discussing these spicy Saints Row reviews, and Kamen has some spice of his own to share, HBO finally gave us the first teaser for The Last of Us, and we give a recap of the biggest highlights from the Gamescom Opening Night Live Showcase!

Time Codes:

What we're playing - 3:45

Saints Row Reviews - 10:08

HBO's The Last of Us first teaser - 26:18

Knights of the Old Republic gets a new developer - 31:13

Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase recap - 36:37

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The opening song in this episode is Emerald Hill Zone from Sonic 2, composed by Masato Nakamura. We do not own the rights to the music featured in this episode.  Thanks for listening!

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On this week's episode, Patrick reviews Cult of the Lamb, we talk about the upcoming Marvel's Spider-Man's multiple news stories from this week, and we talk about the best games from 2022 so far!

Time Codes:

What we're playing - 3:52

Cult of the Lamb review - 9:52

PlayStation games launcher coming to PC? - 22:49

Spider-Man multiplayer assets found - 28:52

Disney & Marvel Games showcase coming in September - 35:49

What is happening to this game called Saints Row? - 44:18

Top 5 games from 2022 so far - 51:58

Updating the gaming calendar - 1:07:37

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The opening song in this episode is from Kirby Super Star, composed by Jun Ishikawa. We do not own the rights to the music featured in this episode.  Thanks for listening!

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On today's episode, we're joined by JK! Games! to discuss Mario Kart's next course waves, what characters we might and hope to see in MultiVersus, and we bring twitter's latest trend on the show to discuss our favorite games from the past several years!

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Time Codes:

What we're playing - 7:13

Beyond Good & Evil 2 finally...has its lead writer? - 23:37

Two Point Campus reviews - 27:08

Mario Kart data mine suggests next waves of courses - 32:43

MultiVersus leaked/rumored character roster additions - 39:09

Topic of the show: our favorite games of each year (going back to 2015) - 57:44

The cauldron question - 1:30:11

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