Deputy editor of The Daily Beast Allegra Frank joins the panel to cover Kirby adults, Pokemon Gonlyfans, and whether or not demons are cool.
Questions this week:
- Does adapting a story focused on choice into another medium cheapen player agency? (04:58)
- Where does the Kirby franchise go from here? (13:19)
- What’s happened with Pokemon Go in the last six years since anyone played it? (20:13)
- Which video game character would you pick to guest host Saturday Night Live? (26:58)
- Are demons cool? (32:02)
- Kyle asks: Which famous writer would be best at writing a video game walkthrough? (41:36)
- Tim asks: who cares? (48:42)
LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As: Dragon Age Inquisition (49:35)
Recommendation & Outro (01:00:44)
Pokemon Go to the forums to discuss this episode!
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Demonschool by Necrosoft Games, now wishlistable on Steam
- Dornie
- Super Mario 64
- Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Yoshi
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
- F For Fake (1973)
- The Walking Dead
- BioShock
- Dragon Age series
- Mass Effect series
- Life Is Strange series
- Halo
- Kirby games
- Kirby Air Ride
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Pokémon universe
- Pokémon GO
- Mongo only pawn in game of life
- Cork
- The Human Toll Of Fallout 76’s Disastrous Launch
- Marcus Michael Fenix
- George Steinbrenner
- Big Boss
- Solid Snake
- Dr. Hal “Otacon” Emmerich
- Demonschool
- Shin Megami Tensei series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- Persona series
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Final Fight: "Streetwise"
- Ernest Hemingway
- Homer
- Beowulf
- Salman Rushdie
- Jonathan Franzen
- Conker's Bad Fur Day
- Sylvia Plath
- Warlock
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Miguel de Cervantes
Recommendations:
Brandon: F For Fake (1973), Desiccation’s Cold Dead Earth,
Tim: This lunchtime photograph, Don’t call yourself a flexitarian
Allegra: Freeze then thaw your tofu
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Allegra Frank. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.