Backlog Buds

Merry (?) Christmas! The buds take on The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, the baffling 1966 American-Italian musical Christmas movie, complete with emo Santa, disturbing elves, and a scenery-chewing, cobweb-covered butler named Blossom.

The second half of our review of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, where we get into NANOMACHINES SON and read some of the bonkers reviews of the game that people have posted.

Ewen, Grant, and Char take on Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, the zany action spinoff of Metal Gear Solid where you play Raiden, a cyborg soldier on a mission to cut everything in sight into tiny pieces! In this episode we talk about some background stuff and cover the first half of the game, plus Grant has a quiz game for Char and Ewen.

This time around Ewen and Grant are joined by Char, who will be a regular co-host going forward. Char's pick for this episode is The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, a short adventure game that serves as a preview/demo for Life is Strange 2.

Ewen and Grant sat down and watched The Apple, a 1980 movie from The Cannon Group (you know, the guys behind Superman IV: The Quest for Peace), an attempt at a musical about showbiz and a muddled biblical allegory. It is so, so weird.