This week, Brian, Kris and Will await the Dune Messiah film discourse. We also discuss Dustborn, Dragon Age 2, and 1000xRESIST, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. (And bring back Unreal Tournament!) TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Dial M For Murder - 2:29 | Dune Messiah - 5:44 | Dustborn - 17:48 | The Alters - 28:40 | Balatro (Mods) - 31:33 | Dragon Age II (and the series) - 44:33 | EA, BioWare, Titanfall - 1:16:13 | 1000xRESIST - 1:25:25 | Outro - 1:38:35 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): What Has Your Copy Wrought | Not Today, Satan | I Hope Localthunk Makes Enough To Buy A Desert Island, Which I Would Play Balatro On | The Book Of Grudges | Harry Potter And The Audacity Of This Bitch | It's A Shame They Never Made A Sequel To The Last Jedi | We Can Follow This Rabbit Down All The Different Holes | The Moral of the Story is Just "Fuck EA" | Donatello Has Fallen! | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

This week, Brian, Kris and Will talk about older MMO designs and fighting game guest characters. We also discuss The Legend of Heroes, 1000xResist, Kingdom Hearts, and a smattering of other topics. Also Will disbelieves Australia. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Australia Isn't Real - 0:00 | Intro - 0:50 | The State Of WoW - 3:15 | Older MMOs and Early Game Design - 20:08 | Fighting Game Guest Characters - 31:11 | The Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky - 39:35 | 1000xResist - 48:25 | The Alters Demo - 55:52 | Kingdom Hearts/Dark & Deep - 58:03 | Kris’ New PC & Elden Ring - 1:05:41 | Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance - 1:10:58 | Outro - 1:20:54 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): + Australia Isn't Real | Noone Can Run Crysis, But I'd Love To See You Try | Frost Death Knight Tank, My Beloved... | + You're Not Talking Shit About Ulduar To My Face | Lockrocks and Hellevators | + I'm Gonna Roleplay As A Shitposter | + What You're Saying is, The Porn Needs To Have Plot | + SOMEBODY Has To Lay Pipe! Most Games Inspired By Super Metroid Miss The Point of Super Metroid | + I Gave Myself A Colonoscopy This Morning, Don't Worry | + Mai Time | + Guile Protects The Skies, Luke Commits War Crimes | + I Have To Worry That Luke Was At January 6th | Terry Bogard Has Never Not Been A Well Dressed Man | + The Degeneracy Continues, Much To Lucas' Chagrin | + You Will Fuck Around, And Everyone Else Will Find Out | + That Was Cool, But Also Fuck You | + Burn It All Down, Whole System's Fucked, We're Coming For You, God! | + Have You Fought Matador Today? You Gonna Learn! | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

This week, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about upcoming games announced at Summer Games Fest and other sources. We also discuss Trails in the Sky, Reus 2, KILL KNIGHT, and a smattering of other topics. We also talk about cricket. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | EA Cricket - 5:30 | Upcoming Games We're Excited For - 8:30 | Balatro - 53:15 | The Legend Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky - 1:00:19 | Lucas Demos - 1:23:37 | Reus 2 - 1:34:18 | KILL KNIGHT - 1:44:40 | Outro - 1:57:05 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Gotta Know What A Crumpet Is Before You Can Play Cricket | +My Name is Mayo Meets Asura's Wrath, But It's Cricket | A 5v5 Shooter? Daring Today, Aren't We | +This Show is the Perfect Evolution of Beard Growth | +Level Up Lucas in the Day to Evolve Him to Brian, in the Night to Evolve Him to Kris | How Many Flavours of Goku Do You Have? Yes! | +Put A Tattered Cloak on Anyone, It Improves Them | +Bring Back Breath of Fire, You Cowards | +Just A Little Bit of Dragons in There? As A Treat? | The Trails of Cold Steel Duology... Duology | +Estelle is Bestelle | ACAB, Excluding The SSS | +KILL POWER in All Caps, Bold, Italicised, Underlined | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

This week, Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about books and styles of critique before remembering that we're a video game podcast. We also discuss Duck Detective: Secret Salami, Void Terrarium 2, Multiversus, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Toys - 1:31 | Thrawn: Treason & Other Star Wars Books - 8:49 | Toxic Self-Criticism About Physical VS Audio Books - 18:04 | Mary Skelter (and its Books) - 26:49 | Duck Detective: The Secret Salami - 44:24 | Witch & Lilies - 52:04 | Void Terrarium 2 - 1:04:01 | V Rising - 1:12:58 | The Way We Critique Games (And How Critique is Received) - 1:27:08 | System Shock Remake - 1:59:41 | Multiversus - 2:14:29 | Outro - 2:52:04 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Donatello Has Been Whitewashed | + Generic 80s Cartoon Bad Guy Name | You're Reading A Codex Instead Of A Scroll? Scrub | + Erotica? In THIS Economy?! | The Dungeon Is Horny For You | Shocking News: Lucas Has Been Playing A Dungeon-Crawling RPG | The Podcast Police Aren't Coming For Us Just Yet | + If It's Your First Time in Etrian Odyssey, You HAVE To Dungeon Crawl | + Ghost in the Mary Shelley | + You Know He's A Hero Because He's Wearing A Scarf | + Have A Morbin' Good Time | Go Morb Over Those Guys | + I Want A True Sequel to Morrowind And I'm Not Getting It | + And We Didn't Even Mention Castlevania Until This Moment | Terry Bogard is More Graceful Than Richter Belmont | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 6:25 | Rise Of The Ronin - 49:30 | Lucas’ Cat Sneezes (& Read Only Memories: Neurodiver) - 1:28:50 | Hades 2 & WoW - 1:50:00 | Embracer, Xbox, & Games Industry Discussion - 2:00:00 | Sins Of A Solar Empire 2 - 2:42:00 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Aspiring To The Unfathomable | Desiring Greater Quintessence | Jennifer’s Body | Stage Select On A Fighting Game | Taking The Door Off The Hinges & Throwing It Down The Hallway | Nomura: Like Walking Into A Hot Topic, But With More Belts | A Sexual Feast For Kris Cornelisse | Car Bombs Are Temporary | A Devil’s Threeway Where Nobody Wins | Will It Blend? Don’t Breathe This! | My Horses Turned Back Into Rats! | The Takes? Hot & Ready Just Like The Littlest Caesar | No Innocent Men |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett]

This week, Brian, Kris, and Lucas discuss Star Wars, Hades 2, FF7 Rebirth, and a whole lot more. Cheers! TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Star Wars Books and Expanded Universe - 3:26 | Brian's Steam Deck - 21:29 | Hades 2 - 26:35 | Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 38:53 | Cheap Walmart Finds - 1:01:37 | V Rising - 1:04:34 | Castlevania and Konami - 1:37:29 | Animal Well (and Dunkey) - 1:43:02 | System Shock Remake - 1:51:55 | The Fall of Lucas' Amiibo - 1:53:16 | Beared or Bore - 1:56:03 | Conclusions (and Multiversus) - 1:58:53 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Richter is Simultaneously The Best And Worst Belmont | Luckass, The Off-Brand Lucas | +Save Yourself From Balatro, It's Too Late For Me | It Was So Artistically Done! | I'm Showing My Star Wars Nerd Power Level Here | No-One Hates Star Wars More Than Star Wars Fans | None of Y'all Are As Cool As Revan | Speaking of Amelia Tyler's Lovely Voice Lording It Over Me... | The Worst Supergiant Game is Better Than Several of Your Favorite Games | Magic is For Nerds (That's Us, We're Nerds) | Throwing Explosive Skulls Like A Grenade Launcher | Shut Up, Chadley! | Chadley is a Good Boy But He Needs To Leave Me Alone | Chadley is Red Pilled | Chadley, You're Just Jealous Because You'll Never Be As Cool As Mai | FF7 Rebirth Has Video Game Disease | I Clapped When I Saw The Thing I Liked | ++She's A 10, But She Slips on Every Banana Peel | I'd Buy 33 Of Them For A Dollar! | The Sun Will Kill You (Very Quickly) | Hey You Wanna V Rise Up? | This Is The Shit Room, Where We Go To Shit | Simon Belmont Wanders Around And Fucking Mercs You | What Genre is Warframe? Yes | Save Hades 2 For Later, Play V Rising Now | +Please, God, Don't Give Castlevania to Mercury Steam Again | BIGMODE Can Now Retire Undefeated | If That's The End of My Life, Then So Be It I Guess | Oh No Lucas, You ARE Dead! | +Tyrant Raving Mad | I See Adventure Time in Multiversus And My Vision Goes Red | +Blondes Have More Fun. Australians Have More Fun. Australian Blondes? Forget About It! | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax’ Barnett, & edited by Kris ‘Delfeir’ Cornelisse]

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about a bunch of roguelikes involving cars. We also talk about Inkbound, Sportsball, Star Wars books, the SaGa franchise, and a smattering of other topics. Brian also makes ASMR. Enjoy. TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS Intro - 0:00 | Sportsball and Life Balance - 0:41 | Steam Deck - 7:02 | Helldivers 2 - 14:57 | SaGa: Emerald Beyond - 20:26 | Inkbound - 47:10 | Audrey's Book Corner - 57:14 | Heading Out - 1:02:17 | Pacific Drive - 1:14:49 | Brian Barnett ASMR - 1:27:30 | Conclusions - 1:29:07 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): This Sounds Like A Sportsball Thing, Is This A Sportsball Thing? The Closest I Get To Understanding Baseball Is Like A Dragon Minigames +I Don't Wanna Face The Wrath of Kendrick +So Naturally, As The Helldivers Community Is Wont To Do, They Deployed The Memes +Sony Takes One Of The Biggest, Most Surprising Ws of the Year and Turns It Into A Massive L +The Helldivers 2 Devs Remain Undefeated... Except Joel, Fuck Joel I Dunno Man, That Sounds Like Treason +SaGa Games Are Like Taking A Final Fantasy, and Ripping It Inside Out +You Have To Bash Your Head Against Systems Until They Make Sense You Had To Stick to The Script, But Instead You Had To Get Cute About It And Ruin Everything +What If, Instead of Punching This Guy, I Kick Him! YEAH! Take Four Individual Final Fantasy Levelling Systems, Put Them Together? You Have A SaGa Game ++The Lobster Is Very Good At Martial Arts +Just Go Full Aggretsuko +Oh Darth Bane, You Are The Biggest Jobber in Star Wars On A Scale of One to Mortal Kombat One, How Graphic? You Can Very Easily Crash in a Way That's Fatal... Just Like Real Life! +Real Life Tip: Don't Crash Your Car +He's A Full On Degenerate Whose Opinion I Really Want To Hear +When It Rains, It Pours For The Car Sickos ++At The Moment, My Car is Haunted ++I'm Reading People An Audiobook, With A Raging Erection +We Almost Made It To The End Without Any Sort of Perversion [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, Will and Lucas talk about Final Fantasy minigame related trauma. We also talk about Handheld PCs, Hades 2, Pacific Drive, and a smattering of other topics. We're quite unhinged and degenerate about it. Enjoy. TOPIC AND TIMESTAMPS Intro - 0:00 | Brian's Steam Deck - 2:45 | Final Fantasy Related Trauma - 5:13 | Steam Deck and other Handhelds - 9:46 | Hades 2 - 27:47 | Degeneracy - 39:20 | Shogun and Black Sails - 45:39 | Unicorn Overlord (and Fire Emblem) - 49:47 | Star Wars: Thrawn - 53:20 | Pacific Drive - 55:30 | Mods and Steam Workshop on Deck (ft. Balatro) - 59:10 | Conclusions - 1:05:00 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Steam Deck +1 +So Many Lightning Bolts To Dodge Before You Get The Best Steam Deck +We Don't Use RPG Sickos In Place Of Something Else, We Use It Because You're Actual Sickos +I Call Myself a Sicko Because I Understand the Depravity To Which I Will Go +FFXIII, Not Even Once +I Would Simply Be Correct And Choose The Right Option +The Gang Discovers Their Least And Most Favourite Final Fantasy Games +Card Games Make A Man Do Strange Things +Todd Howard Has Never Made Anything That "Just Works" +"It Just Works" - Todd Howard, Creator of Some of The Buggiest Games Known to Man +It's Hard To Be This Funny, But Not Hard When You're This Talented +I, Too, Am Deck Ready +Consoles Nowadays Are Just Bad PCs +Reject Modern Game Console, Embrace the Handheld +We Could Be More Unhinged; Many of Us Are, In Fact, Too Hinged +The Sticks Are Stiff, But They Don't Resist +Supergiant Games Don't Miss +Hades is For Everyone, Because Everyone Can Find A Character They Find Attractive In That Game +Girl You Look Like You Could Crack Me In Half, Let Me Buy You A Drink +Nice To Meet You, Please Fucking Kill Me +Karlach.txt +My Sexuality is Karlach +We Are Not Worthy of Supergiant's Character Designs +This Isn't A Public Space, This Is A Private Show, I Run This Place, And I'm A Fucking Pervert +I Reserve The Right To Be Thirsty About Anyone +The Platformers Reserves The Right To Be Horny, In Places You Can Hear Us +Nobody Here Is Barking Like A Dog... Yet +That Is A Load-Bearing "Yet" +"I Do Not Want To Be Shogun", Says The Man Who Very Much Wants To Be Shogun +I Have The Internet, The Internet Will Provide +The Show Is A Little Too Horny For Kermit The Frog +I've Never Been More Disappointed; That's Actually Not True, I've Played Perfect Dark Zero +I Liked Fire Emblem Before It Was About Tubes of Colgate Toothpaste +The Rise, Fall, and Animeification of Fire Emblem +I'm Holding Off on Touching Balatro Mods, Because You'll Never See Me Again +Card Games? That's A Young Man's Game +The Cardboard Crack Is No More +Y'all Got Any More Of Those Booster Packs? +Skator Gator Is A Game You Play on Fridays, IYKYK +Keep Our Name In Your Mouth, But Do It Respectfully [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas are joined by Thomas Wilde to discuss Pepper Grinder, Balatro, Harold Halibut, and a lot more. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Pepper Grinder - 1:10 | Controller for Lucas PB Tales - Crush - 17:25 | Harold Halibut - 19:00 | 3, 2, 1, Let's Jam - 28:00 | Balatro - 29:00 | Stellar Blade - 31:30 | Asgard's Wrath II - 45:05 | Lies Beneath - 55:35 | Wintermoore Tactics Club - 1:01:50 | Alpha Protocol - 1:17:00 | Thomas' Indie Game Corner - 1:49:05 | Inkbound - 1:59:35 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): He's Got A Big Pink Head & He Drills Down | What Flavor Of Crack Would You Like? | I'm Worried It Will Become Financially Beneficial For Me To Get Back Into World Of Warcraft | No, We're Not Gonna Tip Mike Ybarra | Wallace & Grimpet | Cheese, Grommet! | Unfortunately, No One Can Be Told What The Music Is… You Have To See It For Yourself | Friendship Ended With Granblue, Balatro Is My New Best Friend | +Straw Monolith | When We Speak, It's With 1,000 Mouths. When We Play Games, It's With 2,000 Hands | Criticized Based On The Juiciness Of Its Rump | +I Hope One Day Our Children's Games Will Be Judged Not By The Thiccness Of Their Buttcheeks, But The Thiccness Of Their Character | +Brian, It's Me From The Future! In 20 Years, You'll Need A Copy Of Magna Carta To Solve A Debate About Korean Ass Cheeks! | +You Must Gather Your Sandwich Before Venturing Forth | Measuring The Iced Cream | One Degree Of Separation From George W. Bush & Two From Mike Pence | Really Jonesing For ChuChu Rocket! | It Was A Thousand Years If It Was A Day | +Inventing Booty Shorts In 1790 | Assbucket In A Robe | +Succubus Fuck: My Chillwave Scissor Sisters Cover Band | +I Hadn't Thought Of Yeoman Chambers As A Sex Vending Machine Before Now | +Please Put $50 In Quarters Into Your Personal Assistant | The Outside Was Still Raw, But The Inside Was Burnt | Alpha Protocol Was Made By Kay's Kitchen | +My Favorite Part Of Alien Was When The Xenomorph Spent 5 Minutes Humping A Wall | That Wall Had A Family (And Had Even More Afterwards) | YouTubers Who Wouldn't Know A Thing About Critical Theory If It Bit Them On The Taint | With $50 From Me He Can Buy Himself A Fighter Jet | I Think We All Know How Thoroughly Weaponized The Australian Public Is | +Lucas White's Twisted Metal Hot Dog Cart | +Hot Dog Water Oil Slick | Going Out Trying To Save A Book, Pagemaster Style | Can You Date The Inkblot? | +What If You Tried TALKING To The Cyberdemon? | 'Only Show Adult Balatro Mods' | I Was Really Hoping For Fuckable Cards | I've Just Realized How Easy It Is To Get Him To Fuck Up His Search History, And That's More Power Than I Deserve | We Need To Rule 34 This Card Game The Internet Failed You, But It Did It In Defense Of Me (Which I'll Allow) | Balatro Nude Mods | Thoughts And Themes And Popcorn Dreams | Our Hearts Are Not Comprised Of Only Goodness, So Be Nice |

In this episode, Kris, Lucas and Will talk more about the ongoing debate of friction in game design. We also talk about PAX West coverage, Lies of P, Rise of the Ronin, Honkai: Star Rail, Warframe and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS: PAX West - 1:15 | LUCID - 2:58 | Heading Out - 5:41 | Dragon Is Dead - 10:24 | RA RA BOOM - 12:29 | Heartworm (and the Horror Genre) - 16:27 | Kriegsfront Tactics - 21:34 | Slime Heroes - 24:50 | Deathbound - 32:15 | Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days - 36:49 | Lies of P ft. Monster Hunter World - 45:26 | Rise of the Ronin - 55:52 | Friction in Game Design - 1:04:59 | Microtransactions and Game Design - 1:27:21 | Honkai: Star Rail - 1:31:33 | Sorry We're Closed - 1:48:25 | Warframe - 1:57:05 | Conclusions - 2:11:16 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): I Came Out Of My Cave To Tell My Editors "I'm Not Dead" I'm Working on Stuff, But I'm Also Dying, So If You Could Be Chill For Maybe a Week + Playing It You're Like "Yeah. Yeah! YEAH!" And Then Just Progressively More Yeahs There Is No Way To Get Me Interested Faster Than To Say "Yeah, We Like FTL: Faster Than Light!" + Shining A Giant W In The Sky To Summon Will You Are A Group Of Ninja Cheerleaders From Space One Thing Leads To Another: Horror! + The Overlap Between The Queer Community and Horror Fans is a Circle + This House Is Going To Eat Us If We Don't Leave in 15 Minutes, We Can't Stay Here If I See Anymore, I'll Want it Immediately And Then Be Sad You Have A Tanky Frame, But That Arm Ain't Tanky + We Were Tired Of Waiting For Square To Make A New Front Mission, So We Made Front Mission + The Vacant Smile of Doom That Is Toriyama's Slime Design + We Want You To Live With The Consequences Of Your Animations + Nah Man, Fuck It, Big Hammer All The Time + It Never Stops Being Cool When You Izuna Drop Somebody + It Is Statistically Proven That Izuna Dropping is Fucking Cool + Team Ninja Does Not Want You To Have A Good Time + Every Time There Was A Choice, You Made The Wrong One + See You Losers, I'm Gonna Go Live At The Bottom of the Ocean With My Hot Mermaid Wife + I Need Ralph Ineson To Talk Dirty To Me + The Angels Aren't Any Better, They Hate You Too Oh No, Here Comes The Capitalism + Mobile Games Are A Hellworld From Which There Is No Escape + Could Not Be More Over Than Mobile Games + If I Don't Girlboss Perfectly, My Eyeballs Get Ripped From My Skull + I'm Not Sure What Happened To Get Me Into Warframe [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]