We're playing all the fantasy hits and that means it's time for a Cult with a Secret Plan!
We get the Knights of the Crucible on our side for one thing to do with the main quest, but the DLC doesn't seem to let them also help us with the DLC quest? It's a little strange, but oh well.
Today we're going to the "Sanitarium", which is an archaic word for basically "Insane Asylum".
Content Warning: the mental health facility isn't great, there's some abuse and experiments going on.
Durance is voiced by Dave B. Mitchell, who also is the narrator of this game.
Pallegina mes Rèi is voiced by Mela Lee.
They're both very good in these roles!
Our playlist of the greatest fantasy hits continues as we delve into some catacombs this week.
What's a fantasy adventure if not the chance to explore a ruined temple watched over by a ghost?
We meet a character named Maerwald, who comes with a bit of a Content Warning on him. He's got a fantasy thing going on that basically causes some form of Dissociative Identity Disorder. This is going to be a recurring sort of thing in Pillars. Not like every single ep, but it'll come up at least a few more times before the game is done.
This week we meet Eder (spelled Edér if you're not an ASCII imperialist, like I obviously am).
Also we meet problematic fave Durance.
There was a little bit of Microphone trouble with this episode, and my apologies about that, but I couldn't get it out of the recording after the fact in Audacity. Maybe you won't even notice it if you're not too picky or you're just using airpods or whatever.
Does the "spiritual successor" to the Baldur's Gate series pull it off?
Hek yeah it does.
This part of the game sucks so bad, like it'll make you just quit the game. Honestly, the worst.
This is just the audio of the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/live/vAXpLc6gc4w?si=LvsLdjUGv-jfDMMO
Since I'm not giving descriptions of what's happening visually, it's maybe a lot less easy to follow than a normal AOLP ep. However, if you really want to only listen to the audio, here ya go.
This episode was first destroyed on accident and then recovered from archived files that didn't have the tracks separate. If the sound leveling seems off as a result, sorry about that.
Here we go over some rankings for the 2024 winter anime, based on watching just the first ep or two.
There were a few anime in this season that are not listed here, if it was like season 5 of a show or something but I didn't feel like just trying it anyway then it got skipped entirely.
Final Bracket: https://challonge.com/2024_q1_anime
Here's another game that I played a bit of long ago and never managed to fit into the schedule earlier than this. A ROM-hack named Crystal Clear which does a lot of cool things to the game, notably it lets you do the gyms in basically any order you like.
And this ep, there's a special guest in the second segment!
This is an ep recorded in the later half of last year but I never had a good time to slot it in so here we go.
First Background Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGq5AfuYAIo
Second Background Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym-ONHdg6Rc
Full Bracket Results: https://challonge.com/lokaaoty2023
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Have you ever wanted to know what Lokathor's Game Of The Year is for the year 2023? Well, now you can!
Final Bracket:
https://challonge.com/lokagoty2023
This is an episode where I declare who should win each award category in The Game Awards (2023), according to their nominee list.
The "proper" Lokathor GOTY ep will be coming soon.
I just can't do this nonsense anymore. I'm done with this Tactician Mode fiddly stuff, and I'm even done with using a controller to play this. It's just miserable! Maybe I'll record BG3 again some day on my PC, but first I have to play it on my PC and see if it's very recordable at all (the game is still pretty glacial).
This is the audio-only version of the YouTube recording:
https://youtube.com/live/2_BOvpcmQn8
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This is the audio-only version of the YouTube recording:
https://youtube.com/live/19ptlEE1HZA
Also you can check out the Patreon:
https://patreon.com/lokathor
This is the audio-only version of the YouTube recording:
https://youtube.com/live/CfjlaEdpB-o
Also you can check out the Patreon:
https://patreon.com/lokathor
Gotta make those dragons pay their taxes!
Actually, I kid, but this game turned out to be an amazing find.
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We try out the new zone, and then go back and clean up some more cave stuff too.
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Now that there's blue Pikmin available, let's put them to work carrying things through the water!
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There's a tragic event that probably has nothing to do with the episode title.
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We can finally play the full game of Pikmin 4, but our save from the tutorial can be brought over so we don't have to restart anything.
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Part 2 of the playthrough of the demo! Next week will be the full game!
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Time to crash on yet another planet, and then get yet another army of mini-plants to tear down the world and harvest it all.
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Can Skelly and Lokathor stop Ghen and save the people of Riven?
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There's a few weeks until Pikmin 4 comes out, so today we're traveling via Book to the distant world of Riven! And what's the point of traveling through All Of Time And Space unless we can bring a Companion with us, so we've got Skelly/Brett along for the ride. He'll be telling me what to click the whole time.
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It's taken us 1,000 years to get here.
We finally actually do all 100 trials.
The moon is less dangerous than I'd expected it would be.
Honestly? Russian bob-ombs was a pretty good move on the part of the translation team.
Once more into the world of Skyrim!
For actual Deej content you can listen to the Happy Created Inc podcast.
I hope you like hearing about the badge system.
Trains are cool until the train station breaks their gate and we have to go inside and find a key.
It's another open world game, but this time we're in Japan, stabbing folks in high speed sword fights!
Trains are pretty cool.
Tried out that new Zelda game that might be cool maybe.
Spoilers: it's cool.
Spoilers 2: in this episode I play as far as slightly past the tutorial zone.
Okay so normally we'd just get warped back to town in short order, but this time it's gonna be a Whole Thing.
This chapter's kinda a long one.
This chapter's kinda a long one.
There's a lot more connective tissue in this game than the last one, but I do like it more like this.
Steam wanted me to buy a game and it's close enough to the game's release that we can call it a First Look episode!
Bells.
Again, it's just part of the pit, but ya know.
Glitz glitz glitz
This chapter actually kinda sucks.
These little boggle spirits are pretty cute, really.
If you thought that we were going to just do one episode per chapter I've got some very bad news for you.
Where would a Mario game be without a trip to a castle?
We're gonna be stuck in paper form for a thousand years?!?!?!
It turns out that a midquel still has to end where the "Part 2" begins, so our luck takes a bit of a downward turn.
We're finally here, finally ready to take on the Crusade. There's a lot of people counting on us, better be careful.
There's a whole additional world down here, which is neat, but also means we've got more stuff to do than we thought.
More scouting around for a way into the castle. I think we're getting closer to something.
The coalition camp basiclly wants us to scout out the area, so we get to wander in the wilderness again.
Time to finish up all this "bridge" nonsense and move on to gathering our forces as close as possible to Dragonspear Castle.
So I did another challonge tournament: https://challonge.com/loka_anime_2022
Unlike before, it's not exactly just me rambling. Instead, I was on a discord call with some folks. However, they didn't want to casually get recorded and broadcast, so I only recorded my side of things. It's kinda like if I was ranting to the chat of a stream, so you should be used to it by now. I've also trimmed down the extra long silences for ya, so it should be a fine listen.
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My brother and I played Kirby 64 on stream the other day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLM-3U1AVrc) and so I thought I'd balance the audio a little bit better and put it out here as an ep for you all.
Join me as we find out what my game of the year for 2022 is, and if it's even gonna be a game that came out in 2022!
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There's a bit of a scuffle happening on the bridge, so we'll have to meet another old friend and do some stuff to de-scuffle the situation.
My brother would be upset if I didn't mention that there's a web serial called "Worm" that is apparently quite good (I haven't read it).
Sports Story is out on Switch!! It's the sequel to Golf Story, and so far it seems pretty great.
These trolls don't have candy corn horns :(
This forest thing is optional, but in a sense all games are optional, so we might as well have a look in the woods. Beats a cave.
We have to go check out a mine, and so of course it gets kinda spooky.
The band broke up, and then a crusade maybe started, and now we've gotta get a band together to go try and help handle it.
It's not quite the same band we had before, but we get mostly the same folks at least.
Today you can join along as I check out the next Atelier game I'll be playing through.
The band broke up, and then a crusade maybe started, and now we've gotta get a band together to go try and help handle it.
It's not quite the same band we had before, but we get mostly the same folks at least.
I guess this youtube clip sums up my thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n_NXSa0_Uc
My review of the game is that if you've ever been in a financial or mental situation where you've ever regretted buying a video game that turned out to not be fun, then you Should Not get this video game because you'll probably regret having done so.
The infinity engine sinks its fangs into us once again as we start out on our post-Sarevok journey.
Today: gotta go deep into a tomb, because Imoen says so. When the childhood friend says it, you just gotta.
Today we're playing through some of the surprise-release Loathing-series game Shadows Over Loathing, a cosmic horror themed RPG set in the 1920s.
Trying out the latest indie JRPG hit, and it's pretty cool.
Today on Bayonetta 3 there's a spider demon, and also Bayonetta steps on a werewolf.
This is it friends, the last Elden Ring recording! Last week we "beat the game", but there's one important optional boss we have to go back and defeat.
Here's a Halloween bonus episode that's not actually spooky, but it's death and afterlife related. I've been wanting to check it out for a while, and Halloween was just an excuse to do so.
Today we're playing Bayonetta 3, the opening bits and Chapter 1.
There's an unstoppable army that wants to march across the universe, and it shows up on Bayonetta's doorstep.
Hey, it's September 28th! This podcast's birthday!
Lately we've been doing Elden Ring stuff, so to celebrate the podcast's birthday I've gone ahead and read the first chapter of comedy manga Road To The Erdtree. It's an officially endorsed manga, and it's also very silly.
...alright, I'll level with you friends. When I did this reading recording it wasn't specifically meant to be for today. I'd planned to release it after all the main Elden Ring episodes were out. However, I noticed what day it was, and this was the best episode that was sitting in the Outbox, so here's what we get.
After we get the game files all verified, we finally get our maiden where she wants to go.
This time we're deep underground and fighting all manner of bugs and space monsters.
Today we take a break from the main quest to go "do the Ranni stuff", but we're so bad at staying on task that we procrastinate twice and go do the Volcano Manor stuff instead.
To describe what he's doing, in a single sentence, or a word, would be impossible...
Also, it's spelled "Vargouille". That'll make sense once you listen to the episode.
We finally get to the north, and gosh does it sting. So, instead, we turn back and delve under the ground.
Brian, I'm slightly sorry, but I never put in any Enya music.
Sometimes it's hard to make your way north when you keep stopping to do side quests.
Melina wants us to commit some OSHA violations, but you should always support your maiden.
We open the episode getting ready to fight the Omen King, and then by the end of the episode we just barely have time to actually do the fight.
The fine students of the Raya Lucaria have a thing or two that they want to teach us about magic.
Meanwhile, Brian and I have a thing or two we want to teach the students about getting stabbed.
For this episode I played the game all the way to the end.
There's a lot of dramatic stuff. Some of it had to be cut for time. We're really strict about the duration of an episode here on the Lokathor cast, you all know this by now.
But... I kept in a few short rants at the end, that I think you might like.
I truly hope that you enjoy this take on the ending to Mass Effect 3.
I got a little antsy and decided to record a Stellaris. Dunno if I'll do more, but if I don't, oh well.
Grunt needs our attention, then we check up on that Kai Leng fella.
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Today we do side quest nonsense for like an entire hour, and then eventually we go to Thessia (the Asari homeworld).
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It's not every day you get to resolve a centuries old conflict between two major powers.
That's a lie, suddenly resolving centuries old conflicts by magic plot powers is the only thing Shep does.
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Keith David has a lot to say, then we maybe (just maybe) lose track of our entire ship, and once it comes back we throw a wild party to celebrate.
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This episode we slow down on the major storyline to finish up a bunch of smaller side quest stuff.
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There's lots to do on Tuchanka, and then we have to defend the Citadel.
Stay tuned to the end and you might get to be as sad as I was!
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...and from that moment, we traveled together.
East...
Always into the east...
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First we rescue a Krogan named Eve (for lack of a better name), and then also we help out Grunt. It's a very Krogan-centric episode you might say.
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First Hackett wants us to do stuff, then Javik wants our attention, and then even Aria does too. Since it's SOP to do whatever Carrie-Anne Moss asks, we've gotta go get her asteroid back.
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Today we do the Leviathan DLC side quests. There's a lot of stuff to do just to find the quest itself (which starts at about 2:20:00, yes this is a very long episode).
Also here is that pic of that Bismuth stuff I mentioned: link. It's not always rainbow like this, but it can be, and it's definitely most awesome when it is.
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There's a galaxy full of Reapers, and it's not even Reapers we have to put up with today.
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Time for that game of games, with that ending that we all know about and all that, Mass Effect 3!
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We've finally found a boss (an optional one) and killed it, and thus ends our Elden Ring journey.
I'll keep playing the game, just not on the cast. Because this game can go for like 120+ hours, which is like, 70+ episodes, which is like... way too long to be interesting. So next week we'll be off to some new game and I'll be playing Elden Ring "off air".
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Across the bridge we find another maiden, and she's asked us to deliver a letter. Can't be too difficult, right?
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Well obviously the dragon temple would be through tunnel connected to a hard to spot cave.
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Farther west and off the cliff we can go down the hill into the Mistwood, home of many deadly things that want to kill us.
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Well that whole castle deal is kinda deadly to approach, but if we just turn south instead there's all sorts of stuff to explore and check out.
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Our gal Melina wants us to party at her place, but we can only stay so long before we have to get back out into the wild world.
IT'S FOUR TWENTY TODAY WHICH MEANS IT'S OFFICIALLY MEME DAY!
The special meme this year is that Loka is gonna play Elden Ring. Not just a little bit of Elden Ring, but actually a whole lot of it.
This is the VERY LAST episode of the base Baldur's Gate game! Eventually I'll do the Siege of Dragonspear expansion, but for in between we'll have other games for a while. Possibly quite a while, depending on how things shake out.
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We're delving more into the basement this week. Attention must be paid, or the perils will perilously imperil us indeed.
PS: The "zap_johnson" that I mention in this episode is the creator of Kingdom of Loathing, which is the exact kind of RPG that I jokingly suggest that I wish someone had ever made.
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Durlag has a big tower in the woods. And that tower has treasures. So we gotta go check it out, of course.
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Even after defeating Sarevok, there's actually still some side content to do in the "main" campaign zone!
Today is that start of our "Tales of the Sword Coast" arc. This was once sold as an expansion pack to Baldur's Gate 1, but now it's built directly into the BGEE experience. After this we'll have some other games before eventually we do the Siege of Dragonspear DLC.
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This is the end of the main plot, but not the end of Baldur's Gate! Next week we'll begin to cover the non-DLC expansion content as well.
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The attempted-murder victim always returns to the scene of the crime!
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We've been playing this amazing game called Baldur's Gate for ages now, and now we're FINALLY HERE!! We're in the city of Baludr's Gate!
In honor of this lovely occasion, we've got an extra long episode! All of chapter 5 in one go. Be sure to take a break and drink some water while you listen to this one.
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Wait this is seriously only the 5th Baldur's Gate episode? Holy crap.
Well, anyway, I guess we just barely started chapter 4 or whatever, but that's no reason to not do the entire thing all in one sitting.
Also, if you liked this you should check out The Versian Chronicles which also has Baldur's Gate right now, just at a more casual pace than I do it.
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BALDUR'S GATE IS BACK AND IT'S BIGGER THAN EVER.
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This is it, time to fly through the Omega 4 relay and face what comes.
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This episode has a lot of bonus spookiness.
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That green pal of ours that we met last time has a little bit of a task he wants some help with, and it's so noble even the cops are willing to play along if they can.
Also, Garrus finally has a lead on that thing he needed some help with, so we look into it.
And then some side quest stuff that doubtless goes on and on and on.
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Thane and Jacob are interesting, but Zaeed sucks so feel free to skip that part of the episode.
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I kinda like Tali because she's got some neat writing, but also she's racist against robots and her society is a military dictatorship, and it's impossible to say if that's good or bad because we could never judge another culture, no.
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This episode has three main parts:
The collector ship is cool and spooky.
Jack's missions is sad and spooky
The scanning stuff is bad and you shouldn't listen to it.
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Krogans usually get pretty old because the writers only ever know how to talk about the geophage 10 billion times.
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Okay so the Firewalker is like, cool as heck, but ultimately this didn't lead to any story that was important or in any way a thing you should care about.
However, for completeness sake, here's this episode.
We'll be back to the story next episode, I think.
I hope that you like Kasumi because it's time to meet her, and then immediately do her loyalty mission almost on accident.
And then we'll probably never go on a mission with her ever again.
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It's Mass Effect 2 time, which means we gotta recruit more party members of course.
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Today we threaten mobster violence against the local shopkeepers (but in a paragon way!), and then meet a gekko-man that talks very fast.
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Today we check our mail of course and then make our way to the dangerous hive of scum and villainy that is the Omega space station.
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Time to dust off that space suit and get out there to save the galaxy a second time.
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There's a bit of a walk-about to clear a little side quest deal, and then we take on Bowser's Castle.
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So, true story, as I upload each episode I play it back the first few minutes just to make sure that things are alright. That's where the episode titles have all come from this season as well. Except on this episode, I mumble in the first sentence or two about Pillar of Salt. It's an OC Remix, and it damn well might be the best one. It's extremely good and if you haven't heard it before and you're a person that likes sounds then you should listen to it.
Also, we do the ice mountain / frozen mansion chapter in this level I guess. Sure.
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Looks like a whole heap of damage does, indeed.
And by "one", we of course mean the baddies in Flower Fields.
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Alright friends today I'm gonna tell you the story of the star spirits, or whatever.
This episode is another setup sort of episode, getting ready for Flower Fields next time.
By which I mostly mean that we've got to deliver a lot of mail all over the kingdom.
A postman's job is never done.
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Today's episode is focused mostly on collecting all the star pieces that we haven't been collecting so far.
And eventually we talk to a whale. Not like a big spender, like an actual aquatic whale.
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We're still on Shy Guy's Toybox, but that's okay since we're still being awesome the whole time.
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Normalization. We need Unit Vectors. And you get a Unit Vector in the Shy Guy's Toybox. Somehow.
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A short little episode today where we do some side stuff to get set up for the next chapter.
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The 2nd strongest foe in the world, and a mansion full of ghosts. Spooky stuff for sure.
Also Mentioned: Improvised Star Trek
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Today we go to Mt. Rugged, and then past that to Dry Dry Desert.
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Bonus Notes: Satsuki Kiryuin's Theme
Today we meet a new pal named Kooper and then make our way to the Koopa Bros Fortress, where we'll have to rescue the first of the Star Spirits.
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Today on Paper Mario we manage to get all the way into Chapter 1, where we have to battle against the Koopa Bros which are definitely legally distinct from the ninja turtles.
During the episode I mention Kingdom of Loathing, which is a great game you can play for free in the browser.
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Hey everyone welcome to the first episode of a new season of the podcast: Paper Mario!
This season is another one of the ones that has my brother in it too. He's basically the lead player, and I just help with all the funny voices and commentary that we do.
In this episode we have repeated issues with the structural integrity of places we visit, but we eventually manage to get headed out on our quest to save the Kingdom.
Folks I know this is a long episode but we're going hard at one task the entire time: make it through Kefka's tower of madness and then stab him until he fades out of the world forever.
That's right, we're going to Attack And Dethrone God. As you go in all good JRPGs.
On the music suggestion front, we're closing it out with the final dungeon theme, Dancing Mad (Kefka's battle theme), and the ending suite song which is a medley of many of the character themes we've all come to know and love.
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Today there's two dungeons to do, but neither of them yields any new characters.
Music: How could we pick anything but the theme of the Cultist's Tower? Argle - The Endless Stair
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Today's episode is all walkin' in the woods, no commentary from me.
As today's episode art implies, we did manage to pick up a single Economizer during all of this woods walkin'.
And if that wasn't enough music for you, try this great remix of the battle theme: SnappleMan, norg, Captain Finbeard - Polemos
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Two more people to pick up today. One of them is a fairly quick affair, and then one of them takes like, a whole complicated dungeon. It's like an entire whole deal.
Suggested Music:
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Today's recruitment is far more weird than the previous ones.
Our music for today isn't a character theme, since we already heard the themes of Chris and Haney before. Instead, the special dungeon music from this haunted house has its own track: Flexstyle - 13th Floor Demonstration
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Gotta build up the party more! Today we're adding three cool friends to the squad, including a new World of Ruin exclusive character!
Musical Tracks:
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This ep we find out Skelly's big sin in the World of Ruin, once characterized by the Nockat crew as "unforgivable". Though really, I can forgive it.
This episode's musical suggestion is Radiowar - Stone Drum, a remix of Cyan's theme.
And of course the Patreon Link.
This episode we meet up with Dan K finally, and we've gotta get our wings back so that we can save the world.
Today's music suggestion is zircon - Full Speed Ahead, based on Setzer's Theme.
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Now that we're able to travel again, it's time to get a look at what's nearby and see who we can get back on the team.
As for the musical suggestion this time, what better track than Nutritious - Castles in the Sand, the theme of Edgar and Sabin.
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Well Kefka has gone and really done it this time. A whole flying continent of evil at his command. We've got to stop him for sure.
But, you know, first let's go pick up a side character.
And then onward to stop Kefka!
Today's music suggestion is Rexy, Brandon Strader - Black Genesis, the theme of the New Continent.
And for no reason at all, we're also going to contemplate zircon, XPRTNovice, Jillian Aversa, Jeff Ball - A Fistful of Nickels.
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We finally clear up that horrible "mansion on fire" situation in Thamasa, and then head through the mountains to the west, hot on the trail of those espers.
This episode's music suggestion is XPRTNovice - La Montana de los Caballos Jovenes, which we first heard as the theme of Mt Koltz, but it's also used for this part of the game as well.
And go sign up for the Patreon if you like this kind of stuff I guess.
The espers have gone berserk and burned the Imperial capitol of Vector.
The Emperor is starting to see the error of his ways, but needs us to reach out and try to calm the espers down before the violence gets any worse.
This episode's music suggestion is the two themes of the two characters we meet today:
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Jess is back with the team, but The Empire isn't going to slow down. Narshe has the cash, Figaro has the tech, but we still lack the manpower required to enact any kind of heavy assault against Imperial Forces.
Well who else hates the Empire? That's right, the Espers do.
Our Mission: Contact the Espers, and recruit their aid to help stop the Empire.
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Alright amokoj, you all knew it would happen, this is the most famous part of Final Fantasy 6: The Opera. I've been doing all the voices in the game so far, and now you get to hear me do all the singing in the game too.
Also, like, after the opera we go to a factory and learn about the history of espers and stuff. Sure, sure. Plot or whatever.
And of course check the Patreon if you like.
First we battle Kefka on the snowy mountain top, and then Jess goes to speak with that frozen esper.
Things don't... go as planned. Soon the party has to find and rescue Jess from herself. dun dun dun!
Just for kicks I'll start putting some bonus music links from an FF6 OCRemix album called Balance And Ruin in the show notes. Based on what happens in each episode, you know. That means that this week we've got a great track called Slam Davis by Mazedude. I think it's captures the warped feeling of Zozo very well.
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Today we've got three separate plots to work our way through, even if all roads lead to Narshe in the end.
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We're still on our way to join up with the rest of the Returners, but to get there we have to travel all up and down the slopes of Mt Koltz.
That's where we heard that Ryan was last spotted, right? Hmm, hmm.
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Starting today we'll be going through Final Fantasy 6!
Grab your magitek controls, and let's march off through a field of snow.
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Today we've got just a one-shot play of the demo for Out There: Ω The Alliance, which is sorta a rogue-lite space adventure thing, I think.
I dunno this is one of those mobile games that was ported to Switch, which is always a slightly dubious sort of thing, but some of those mobile ports end up good so it doesn't hurt to try a demo.
Okay this is actually the end of the game. No more Bayonetta. For now. Some day we'll do Bayonetta 2 of course.
I would say that I'm sorry to all of you who didn't like the Bayonetta episodes, but honestly I'm not. I love Bayonetta, it's a fun game and she's a fun character.
If you like what I do you can check out the Patreon.
We finally confront the mysterious asshole who's been whispering ominously to us all game.
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The only way to approach the island is, naturally, on the back of one of the missiles they launched at us.
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In this fine episode of "sexy witch punches angels into a pile of blood", the angel punching takes place on a gigantic bomber that's taken off from the airfield where we were fighting that boss fight before.
Obligatory "I am tired of these mother'trukin angels on this mother'truckin plane."
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This one is another huge boss fight that takes up the whole level.
It's a cool boss fight though.
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Today we've got another big boss fight. This time against that mecha-angel thing.
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We finally meet get to officially meet Cereza! Who I will call Cerezeta most of the time for reasons you'll "find out later" but which are also pretty obvious right now if you're paying attention at all.
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This one leans to the long end of things (for a Bayonetta chapter), but we get to see Jeanne again!
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You like fire. I know you do. Because fire is cool.
But what if there was... a lot of fire? Like, just so much.
Kai told me that these Bayonetta episodes are hard to follow along audio-only, which is correct. If you want to see the video versions of all this stuff you can check out the Patreon.
Time to remember some people we've forgotten, and try to forget some people we unfortunately can't seem to shake.
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Here's like an hour or so of what the post game of Mass Effect sounds like. I've crudely cut out any bits that would be a spoiler, so you can listen without worry.
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This is the first episode of Shin Megami Tensei 3.
It's (I'm told) a game about capturing demons and using them to fight, like pokemon or whatever. However, we don't manage to get into any actual demon fights during this opening episode.
The series is famous for being difficult and grindy, but we're playing on an Ultra Easy difficulty, so hopefully even once the demon fights start we should be able to keep the story moving along.
If you wanna see the video version of this, or check out exclusive audio episodes, check out the Patreon.
Moo Moo Dear Halo-ers.
Are you all ready to wait in a room? I'm ready to wait in a room. Exciting Gameplay.
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It's against the rules to steal a ship, but as long as you save the day in the end you're allowed to break any rule, right?
So we better save the day.
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Ever wanted to take all the warm welcomes of Hoth, and then add a layer of mega-corp on top?
I sure hope so, because that's what we're getting here on Noveria.
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If you want to follow the story of Mass Effect that's cool and all, but the game does sorta rely on you doing all the side quest nonsense.
So we've put all the side questing into one episode, and if you don't care you can skip over this one.
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Now that we've got Liara on our side, it's time to check in on those other leads the Council had for us.
First stop, Feros. A human corporate research colony that fell out of contact. We suspect it's the Geth.
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Okay this time we die and have to load quite a number of times, but we make it through in the end.
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First we have to show that the special operative from the Space CIA is corrupt, and that he has to be stopped!
Then we join the Space CIA of course. It's the only way.
And if you wanna check out the video version of this, or just hear exclusive audio episodes, you can check out the Patreon.
Just out snapping some photos of the pokemon in not-yellowstone park.
The first route in the game isn't really called Tutorial Trail but that'd be a pretty good name for a route in a pokemon game I think.
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Today we go to not one, but two different towns before heading through the palace itself.
Today we've got William showing off some great Master Mode skills.
If you want to see the video version of all this fun you can join in on the Patreon.
Check out Troy's Podcast which is currently on a daily streak of releases.
Oh, I'm also suddenly back on a daily release schedule? Ah, haha, funny you noticed. No, no... no reason. No reason at all.
This is the last of the Brian Of The Wild episodes from the initial set that I recorded.
Some day there may be more, but probably not for a while because Brian and I have started on another collaboration project, which hopefully you'll hear soon.
Which is not to say that Breath Of The Wild is over, just that it won't be Brian Of The Wild specifically. Breath of The Wild is still a great game for easy playing and easy listening, so it's sure to come up.
Today we're doing Brogue as part of a colab-release with Bret and Kai!
Also here's the music from today, if you wanna play that.
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Today is the first time trying out the ShadowCast so that I can record the Switch directly into my PC, and I think it was a smashing success.
As to the actual content: it's Breath Of The Wild! That instant-classic of a game that we're all familiar with. Recently Brian (of Milkin' It fame, While You Were Talking fame, and also Book Nookie fame) wanted to know more about how to have fun in Breath of the Wild so I figured that it was a perfect game to use to try out this new ShadowCast thing.
Also, since Breath of the Wild seems to be enough of "a thing" now, I'm making it Season 25 of the podcast, and moving the Brian Of The Wild episodes over into that, and now this is Season 25, Episode 3.
PS: here's all those other podcasts that I mentioned during the episode that you should check out:
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Today it's a recording of some DnD 5th Edition that I played. It's the "Tyranny of Dragons" adventure, which is a mostly not good adventure, but it's printed in a nice quality book with great art, so it sells well despite being a poor adventure.
Oracle of Ages fans can get bent, this is not an Oracle of Ages podcast.
We hate time travel.
That's why we'd never play a Zelda game with time travel in it.
no way.
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Hey it's majora again and it's a reasonable episode size again don't worry it's not always eternally long Baldur's Gate stuff!
The other day I had nothing to do on a day off so I played a lot more Baldur's Gate EE than I thought I'd play in a single sitting.
But my motto is "if you did it, they can listen to it", so here we are.
If you want to see the video version of this episode, and/or if you want to hear patreon-exclusive audio episodes, check out the Patreon.
Jaheira and Khalid would sure love for us to check out the mines of Nashkel, but I'd sure love for us to wander all through the woods doing all sorts of things before entering the mines.
This is a longer one, but Baludr's Gate is really that good.
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The audio is kinda messed up for the first few minutes on this one but stick with it because things even out.
Nestled atop the cliffs that rise from the Sword Coast, the citadel of Candlekeep houses the finest and most comprehensive collection of writings on the face of Faerûn. It is an imposing fortress, kept in strict isolation from the intrigues that occasionally plague the rest of the Forgotten Realms. It is secluded, highly regimented, and it is home.
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Ever had to break into a graveyard to get to a forbidden island?
Me? No, I've never. Never would do that. Just wondering for a friend.
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A squad of time traveling mech pilots fight giant bugs in a game where you have perfect knowledge of the enemy's next turn actions, making the whole thing into more like a puzzle like anything else.
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Today is the next step in our OCRemix journey: Chrono Trigger!
http://chrono.ocremix.org/
Today we go back to the winter-land and delve into the (very deep) Subterranean Complex. Bombs everywhere!
If you liked the cast, you can sign up on Patreon and get access to a whole second feed-worth of episodes!
More Final Fantasy 9! And this time my brother says some stuff from the background.
If you sign up for the Patreon you can see the very beautiful video version of this episode.
Today on the cast we're listening to an album from some of the folks over at OCRemix.org. This one is from Kirby's Adventure, it's called Rise Of The Star. This was listed as the earliest in their torrent tracker, though the dates on the tracker are definitely off from the actual release date of each album. I think they're just the dates of when each torrent was added to the tracker.
Anyway, it's Kirby remix music, and I say a little bit between each track, and I hope you enjoy it.
http://kirby.ocremix.org/
Other Casts I Also Mentioned:
oot-8x14-end-final-again-final2.mp3
That's a wrap folks. No more Ocarina Of Time.
Fun fact: when we were kids my brother and I kept reading the word as "O-kar-na", and our mom didn't let us buy the game until we learned how to say "O-ka-ri-na" properly.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
This is the last day we'll be doing the podcast every single day. It's the 151st episode, and it's time to take at least a small break.
As to this episode itself:
First we crunch through some snow to the gas station, then I play some pikmin 2 with OBS not recording the game sound, then I realize the problem and fix the game sound and play some more pikmin 2 with the game sounds on.
The Promised Links:
We've finally got all the medallions, so we're nearly done with OOT.
And I think I said I'd put this link in the show notes: Ocarina of Time | Gerudo Valley [Arrangement] (by Pontus Hultgren Music)
We finally get to do that harvest festival and it's pretty cool.
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This episode is for Bill.
Others can like it too, but I'm not sure anyone else will like it as much.
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Today I just had to start a new project in Rust and so I've dragged you along for the ride.
Today we can't tackle a temple, we gotta do a whole mini-dungeon before we can even get to the temple!
On today's episode, a band of ne'er-do-wells are out to kidnap a princess by pretending to be a theater troupe.
Also, a true woobie of a character, Vivi, is trying to watch the evening's theater event with a rat boy.
Can the captain of the Knights of Pluto, Steiner, find the princess before the theater troupe make off with her!?
Also, of course, esperanto practice.
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Today in the Discord, our good friend Skelly was posting pictures of very cute rats eating very cute rat sized pizzas.
Then I wanted a pizza.
But there was no pizza in the house.
So it became a podcast adventure!
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Today my brother and I did our "Palace 2" play of The Legend of Zelda 2: The Adventure Of Link.
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So let's just get this out in the open folks. Apparently the word is French and so you don't say it "At-el-i-er", you say it "At'tl-ye". According to Google.
Any way, today we're being an anime girl starting out on an alchemy adventure.
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Alright it's time to do the Main Plot I guess.
Ne esperanto hodiaŭ, sed ni havas skeletojn.
We nearly run our cash down to zero, so we have to do a few missions with max cash and minimal scrap picks.
No Eperanto today! I got lazy. Also the episode is long enough as is.
Today we get into our first fight, aka: CURSE YOUR SUDDEN BUT INEVITABLE BETRAYAL!!
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Today we're finding out our own backstory, how it is that we came to be the pilot of a 40 Ton metal death machine. Then we have to have a little bit of practice before we can escort our princess to her coronation.
Obligatory Toonami AMV: Space Is The Place
(Also Esperanto, of course.)
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I was driven to do a little bit of The Witcher 2. I don't know if I'll do this again any time soon, but I do really like this game, so we'll probably see more of Geralt some day.
Also at the end we do some Esperanto at the end. I'll try to put some Esperanto at the end of every episode until we've got it all learned. It's at the end, so if you wanna turn off the episode early that's up to you.
Remember how I played Zelda 2 a little bit ago? My brother wanted in on the same project, so this is his "start of the game" portion.
And because you should practice your language learning every day, there's Esperanto practice in the second half!
The votes came in (some of them not fully locked!), and so here we have an episode about Klingon.
Videos:
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We finally meet Pharod, but before he'll tell us much of anything we have to do a fetch quest for him.
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Here in ratpicker's square we meet people who are even poorer and down on their luck than everyone else we've met so far.
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The brother and I continue the travels through the ever-so-famous water temple.
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Instead of doing stuff in the eastern portions of the Hive, let's go out west today.
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What if your friends all got together on Discord to play Minecraft, but you just... didn't want to play Minecraft? Well, you could play another game instead probably, and Halo makes such satisfying sounds.
So this episode is me playing Halo while chatting with friends on Discord.
If you like this sort of weird stuff, you can sign up for the Patreon.
Time to do more stuff for the folks in the Hive, and most importantly we meet Fell. He's got some enigmatic info for us.
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Underneath Mahogany Town there's some sort of secret hideout run by Team Rocket. We gotta get in there and put a stop to whatever their horrible plan is.
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We've got a fresh save file, and we've gotta help poor Angyar out. Also we've gotta chat with some Dustmen about maybe joining their faction.
This session was long, so I just cut it into two parts at a good point. It seems to work out well to do that, so I might keep doing that in the future.
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Gotta go to the Lake of Rage and fight the Red Gyrados! Except it's randomized, so we fight something else instead. What do we end up fighting? Listen to the episode and find out!
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Now that we're a mage, time to read a religious text book about the history of Dak'kon's people.
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This time in Pikmin 2 we've gotta try and make up for the disaster of last episode.
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Today we're setting out on a side path compared to the quests we were on before. I'm not sure I'll play 100% of the game on the cast, so I'm bumping some of my favorite content earlier, because we can fairly easily access it at this part in the game with just a hair of save game editing.
However, before we can do any of that, we have to get some laundry for a nice old lady.
Also, this session ran quite long, so I ended up chopping it into two episodes.
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Today we kick down some gates to get at those wonderful treasures, and one of them unlocks the route to the next region!
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Today we're doing some odd jobs for the Dustmen (and other Hivers).
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Time for that amazing Olivine Gym match that you've all been waiting for.
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Today we use a little meta-game knowledge to go find Dak'kon sooner than normal, and then we start running errands for the prestigious denizens of The Hive.
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Today we explore a bit only to discover that we need a lot more Purple pikmin. It's into the caves for us!
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What's it mean when you wake up on a slab, covered in scars, and a floating skull is talking to you? It means you're playing Planescape: Torment of course!
This 1999 sleeper hit is one of the "Infinity Engine" games. A game engine for 2e ADnD computer games. You've probably heard of Baldur's Gate? Well this ran in the same engine as that did. During 2021 I hope to tackle quite a bit of the IE games. They're all long though, so I don't think we can do them all by the end of the year.
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Today we're playing a super cool top-down shooter called Wizard Hunter 2348!
Disclaimer: I know the author of this game.
Disclaimer: This game is awesome.
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I hope you're ready to learn about frogs, and some about fractions.
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For a group project that Bill wanted to do, we're gonna do Zelda 2 today.
But I'm going to call it Zoldor 2, since the default game of Zelda 2 is kinda way hard, and I've put a bunch of patches in to improve the experience, including to make it a lot easier.
If you wanna see the nifty modded graphics, check out the video version of this on Patreon.
Time to check out the exciting new realms of Pikmin 2: the underground caves!
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Based on an amazing episode that Troy did, my brother did some reviews of board games played this year (and some video games too), and then (to ensure fairness) I assigned the review scores to each game based on the brother's review.
That's right friends, it's time to play Pikmin 2. What do you do when you get back from a life-threatening journey and your job is all out of cash? You best darn get right back into the danger and start making cash for your boss. Olimar goes back to Earth and now we're hunting for treasures to pay off a loan.
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A continuation to yesterday's episode!
on a hilarious note: this is episode 20 of season 4.
Hey everyone today we're playing FTL: Faster Than Light.
I got the idea because Dan and Brian from the Milkin' It cast did the game on their youtube.
The play ran long, so we're splitting it out over the next three days.
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Ever wanted to get away from that Joja Corp (R)(TM) life and get back to nature?
Well, now that your grandfather has died, you can live on the edge of a remote town and farm to your heart's content!
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We make our way to the top of the lighthouse, only to be told that we have to go fill out a prescription.
When we get to the next town and get the medicine, it turns out it'll be "faster" (in the plot sense) to beat the local gym and then fly back than to surf back the way we came.
Various Calls To Action:
Remember how we need to plant 250 plants, and at least 5 different types? Finally we get there today.
Today we're gonna watch some more Netflix and do some more chilling. The show of choice is Neon Genesis Evangelion, or just Evangelion or Eva for short. It's a show about depression and giant robots that fight giant monsters.
Also, this is episode 5, so if you care about absolute story continuity you should watch episodes 1 - 4 of the series before this.
But you don't have to, you can just listen to this.
Today on the cast, my brother and I are out working in the garage.
This is from December 3rd. Since the last garage episode, most all of the first pass of junk removal has been completed. Now the area near the wall on the outer side is all clear, and we're putting R-13 insulation in between the wall studs. Because the house is older than modern standards the studs are all unevenly spaced, and there's a lot of us needing to cut the batts from their default size down to the size for each wall segment.
As I said, this was recorded a little while ago, and we've since completed the full wall. There's some pics of it on Instagram, if you wanna see.
Also, you can all thank Brett from the Skeleton House Podcast for encouraging me to put out this recording as soon as possible.
Today we head to Olivine City with special guest Annie (XXLDragon7 on the Lokathor Discord).
While we're chatting the subject of some great pixel art by Dewndeym came up, and also a cool gif by ckelsallpxls, both part of the general #JohtoRedrawn project that's been happening the past little while.
If you wanna see the video version of what happened today be sure to check out the Patreon.
More time sorting out old items in the garage while it's mostly cold and dark.
This is the last of the garage cleaning backlog, but fear not because there will be more garage work out on the feed soon enough.
Today we play a puzzle game that's probably not hard for people that do puzzle games, but I'm not those people.
If you are those people and you'd like to play through more of the game than I got through today, contact me (eg, on Twitter) and we might be able to set something up.
Today we find some Tomato and Pumpkin seeds, and also do some voice impressions.
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Today we're gonna meet the team and have ourselves a merry little Smissmas.
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This recording is from back on November 28th when the garage was a lot less clean than it is by now. However, I didn't hook my phone to my PC to get the recordings off of it until just this week.
Building up a Dragon Quest.
With... well.. with Night Soil.
You'll find out what that is.
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Time to have some ramen and watch the shows you watched as a kid.
Well, the shows I watched as a kid at least.
We're here in Ecruteak City to check out a dance house, a burned down tower, and then the local Gym.
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This is it folks! The last episode of Pikmin 1 content. Some day we'll do Pikmin 2 (don't worry), but until then you'll have to find something else to swarm around in groups of 100 for you.
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For this week's "collab" episode, we have a very long play through of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. My brother and I played through the Light Story and Dark Story, but then OBS set the Dark Story audio track on fire, so we just have the Light Story path here.
The Audio Is Extra Loud Today. You should probably turn down your device's volume. Sadly, SA2B has no volume controls of its own, and I only realized how bad the problem is after the recording was over and I was editing stuff.
The game is available on Steam, but the GameCube version is better if you can find it that way.
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Lots of wonderful, relaxing Distant Spring based Pikmin today.
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Today we got a whole new game! It's one that I've been looking to get off and on ever since I heard about it, and I finally pulled the trigger this last steam sale.
The game is called Eastshade, and you play as a painter, exploring an island and finding good spots to paint.
It's really cool, and I hope that you all like it too.
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There's so much to do in the distant spring, and so many monsters preventing us from doing it all.
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Mild audio goof again, so the audio here is me watching my own playthrough and re-commentating on everything.
Thankfully, I'm apparently super consistent with my reading speed for each character, so the timing on all the text boxes turned out pretty well.
First we go to the Forest of Hope for the last two parts there, and then it's off to the Distant Spring.
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Today we spend a lot of time north of Goldenrod City. There's trainers to fight, new pokemon to catch, and even a little bit of main quest progression.
The promised video with a Furret is called He Skate.
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Today we're playing a game called The Year After by anvHadrian.
It turned out to be both very linear, and also very powerful.
I hope you enjoy this one.
Today we're starting the 10th season of the podcast! Isn't that exciting!? Most things take years to get all the way to 10 seasons. Life hack: If you just call anything a season, you can get to season 10 way faster than taking 10 years to do it.
Season 10 is the "slice of life" season, where I'm not playing a video game at all. Instead I'm doing stuff around the house. Necessary tasks to be sure, but not things that are super exciting on their own. However, if I do it "for an audience", then it's just a little bit more interesting, and the whole process helps combat executive dysfunction.
Here's what it looked like when I started: https://imgur.com/a/CPmOmKJ
At the end it didn't look notably different, but I'll be sure to keep you updated.
On this, the anniversary of the crusades, we'll play Crusader Kings 2. The base game is free to play on Steam, just the DLC costs money, since the game is quite old and Crusader Kings 3 is already out.
Calls To Action:
What could be more November and/or Thanksgiving than a rousing game of Halo? Nothing. Nothing at all.
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Also, Lokathor recommends the TorytlePower podcast for no particular reason at all and certainly not because I am deeply embarrassed that I forgot their name for a moment when listing off all my backers at the end of this episode.
We're playing dungeon-crawler classic Castle of The Winds, at the suggestion of Daniel K.
If you want to play this yourself, you'll need to first get otvdm, then Castle of The Winds. Run otvdm, select castle1.exe, and then be patient because it take a moment to start up.
Calls To Action:
This time in Pikmin-town we have a few ups and downs while using our new Pikmin to explore old places.
In our Fanfiction Chapter it's a little short, and I'd even say hard to follow because the Pikmin all lack proper names, but there's a dramatically strong cliffhanger to hook us for next time.
Also mentioned: Secret Of The Forest
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We're back to pokemon silver, which we've been away from for a little bit. That's okay, we still know how to fight a gym. There's a few new Pokemon to meet, and then a bunch of fights to revel in.
Also I mentioned that I'd link to Aidan's stream, which you should check out if you like crosswords and/or tenants rights talk.
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In the land of Hyrule, it's time to do some more side quest stuff, and this time we even start in on part of one of those temple things.
We do a momentary but harmonious duo of the Flower Garden theme from Yoshi's Island.
Also, a group called Malcura does on of the best Gerudo Valley mixes. I love the high energy of this live version that was recorded once, but they also have a studio version of the theme they put up just a few days ago. The studio version is hair slower paced, but has a wider variety of instruments going on.
Finally, I did say that I'd link "that one Egoraptor video" in the show notes.
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As a special event on the Audio-Only Let's Play Discord we all decided to play an NES game that made the NES Homebrew news recently because it got a v1.1 release.
The game is called Böbl, and you can get a copy for free on their itch.io page if you want to try it out. The game is a simple metroidvania type of game where you play as a bubble that has to navigate the world.
Like I said, not only do I have an episode about this game, but some of the other big names in the AOLP scene have one as well:
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Today we have another two days of Pikmin where we finish up all the parts in the Forest Navel.
The fanfic chapter at the end is The Struggle To Survive: Ch6 - Demon Horde.
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Surprise! It turns out the game didn't actually just end with Ganondorf taking over the world with evil. We've got a whole second half of the game to do as an adult! To start, we do some setup stuff where we go around and get some adult link upgrades. Spoilers: no actual temples are defeated during this ep.
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I was told that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity has a demo out today!
This episode is just a one-off of me doing the demo.
I'll very likely do the rest of the game in the backers-only feed on Patreon, unless some even better game comes along unexpectedly.
We're back in Furrowfield Farms, and today we manage to get the Deitree to its next stage of growth!
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Midnight Grub Session is... not really a game that a person should play. It was gifted to me for Bill so that I'd do this episode about it, but the more I think about it the more that I think no one should buy or play this game.
That said, it's been played on audio-only podcasts before, I found out while doing the notes for this ep:
After MGS was done, I decided to try out Chex Quest HD, which was a free download on Steam. It's a Unity remake of the old Chex Quest from 1996. It's not super exciting, but it's not bad for the price tag.
Time once again to help protect and grow the Furrowfield Farms! With sounds!
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Today it's time to do twice as much Pikmin as normal!
Also at the end we still have a chapter of The Struggle To Survive, of course.
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Today's episode is an Interactive Fiction (Text Adventure) game created by Ryan Veeder, of Clash Of The Type-Ins fame.
This game was an entry to IF Comp 2020, which I would have totally forgotten even happened this year except that Verb Your Enthusiasm put out some episodes about the 2020 entries, which I finally listened to (...a month after they came out).
I strongly encourage you to play the game yourself before you listen to this episode, but even if you don't the episode should still be fully enjoyable.
I didn't record any game audio again! Whee! But there's still my audio track, so you can hear me doing all the voices and saying what's going on and all that.
Can't go too long without another round of Pikmin!
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We get the last spiritual stone and then do some side stuff before going to Hyrule Castle and opening that door of time thing.
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No major story today, just some classic exploration of the world around us.
Follow along with the pokemon we're finding on the google sheet.
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What do you do if the audio is gone but the video is there? Watch your own recording and re-recording all the audio in a "behind the scenes" format, of course.
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A slightly shorter episode done at the last minute today. I'll try to do something extra fun tomorrow.
You can check out the Rand Silver Notes Spreadsheet if you want to follow along with what's what as we go through the game.
Hi friends! Today we're starting Season 9 of the podcast! It's the Dragon Quest Builders 2 demo!
This game is basically "what if minecraft had a plot? and also what if it was good?"
It's set in the Dragon Quest setting, but you're not a warrior, you're a builder, so instead of the focus being on killing monsters, it's on helping villagers who need huts and farms and bathrooms to be built for them.
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Also here's the Steam Page for the game itself (the demo is free after all!).
We're starting a new season with the brother, but yet again we've got a game that started on the N64. This time, instead of jumping on everything we meet, it'll be sword slashes to anything that gets in our way.
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The Struggle to Survive
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I lost the recording for the character creation and getting into town, but this starts just after that as I'm joining the adventuring guild and that sort of opening stuff.
The correct game page on Steam for the free trial version.
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Gotta' go home to change the in-game clock back an hour, because daylight savings is over.
Then we can fight the Violet Gym, and use the money to fuel our great need for pokeballs.
The name of the native group that I was clumsily trying to remember at the end of the episode is Tohono O'odham.
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Today we're using Yellow Pikmin to blast apart some doors in The Forest of Hope so that we can get where we need to go.
Then we do a fun BONUS EVENT. Once you have played the episode, you can click the following fun links. However, it'll spoil the fun surprise if you click them now, so hold off until after the episode. Credit1, Credit2, Credit3.
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As part of the "low-production challenge" we've got a bonus ep today! I put the phone down near my PC as I played and didn't check the recording quality one bit before putting this one the feed! Exciting!
Google Sheets of our Pokemon captured so far.
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Note: At the end of the episode I mentioned that Pikmin 3 is out on switch "tomorrow", but that's from the perspective of me recording on Thursday. Pikmin 3 is actually out RIGHT NOW by the time you're hearing this on Friday!
We're moving on to Violet City and catching some more great Pokemon in this episode.
As I promised, you can have a look at the Google Sheet of the Pokemon caught so far, if you want.
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This time we're playing a game with a whole lot of voice acting, which I really like, and I wanna know how you all feel about it. If you have a thought to share, find me on the Audio-only Let's Plays Discord, on the Lokathor Discord, on Twitter, or really wherever else you think you'd be able to find me.
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The OCRemix that I talked about is called "The Sin War". Unfortunately, it seems that the track was removed from OCRemix for not technically being a remix of music from the game. While the narrations are genuinely in-game audio, the instrumentation is an original composition not from the game, so it "didn't count" as a real OCRemix. However, there's a project called OCRemoved which archives songs that have been removed from OCRemix, and you can still get the mp3 by clicking Here. Since it's not an official OCRemix any more with a nice YouTube link, I did end up putting the whole thing on the end of this episode, despite what I say during the show. I did quickly balance down the audio level a bit so that it better matches the level of the rest of the show and I don't blast out your ears. If you get the MP3 from the link it'll be a louder version.
Jeffery Combs, Paul Eiding, Aardwolf MUD, Kingdom of Loathing
This episode was recorded moments after I listened to this tragic episode from the Daniel K. Audio-only Let's Play Podcast. A moment of silence for the lost Pokemon Gen 2 save files everywhere.
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While flying home to Hocotate, our ship is hit by a meteor and crashes on a dangerous and unknown world. We'll have to recover all of our ship's parts before the life support runs out to get home safely.
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We're starting out on a new randomized pokemon adventure, and we immediately get stomped in the face by all the wild pokemon in the area. This one is gonna be a rough start listeners, but I've got high hopes for where it can go from here, just as soon as we get a second pokemon.
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Editor's Note: when I said "December of 2001 and January of 2001", I meant January of 2002 of course. I know how clocks work.
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This time we're taking a break from Pokemon to play a few rounds of a fun bonus game.
Y'all can thank SkeletonPod for helping me decide on this great idea.
Daniel K put out the call asking for Manga suggestions, so here's me reading an entire TEN chapters of a manga that I'm a big fan of.
Note: The Japanese title of the manga is "Pokemon Special", but it's called "Pokemon Adventures" in the English translations.
What's more elite than four gym-leader level fights all in a row? A secret fifth fight of course!
I was struck with the sudden desire to read y'all a chapter from a great Cyberpunk novel called Snow Crash.
I'm sure we'll see more reading episodes from time to time, but probably from different books, depending on the mood.
First we take Team Rocket out of Silph Co., then the Mega Gym Bonanza starts! In Saffron we handle the Fighting Gym and Psychic Gym. Then we fly to Viridian City and get through the Earth Gym too! It's quite a bit.
Making our way through a burned down, abandoned mansion, then using the Secret Key we find there to battle the Cinnabar Gym. How do other pokemon trainers ever face off against the gym if we have the key? The world will never know.
Battling through the Fuchsia Gym, then we fly to Palette Town and take Route 21 down to Cinnabar Island.
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Today we go though Pokemon Tower, and I don't think we run in to any actual ghosts. -- https://ko-fi.com/lokathor
Today we're doing Tall Tall Mountain, and then we do a single level of Wet Dry World before I suddenly lose all energy and have to cut it short.
Jolly Roger Bay 100 coins, then heading upstairs for Tiny Huge Island and Snowman's Land.
Gotta get that Syplh Scope from Giovanni's grip and then pick up a Rainbow Badge from Erika. -- https://ko-fi.com/lokathor
Got a new Pokemon, leveling him up on the way to Celadon, some stuff in Celadon, and then at the end we swing around through Saffron to nab all the Route 11 experience points we missed out on before. -- https://ko-fi.com/lokathor
Not too much story this time, just some quality trainer battles. -- https://ko-fi.com/lokathor
We got my brother on the controls this time and we speed through Jolly Roger Bay, Cool Cool Mountain, some clean up stars, and then the first Bowser match.
The S.S. Anne is a fun place to get HM01, and a quick trip through Diglett Cave gets us HM05. We start on Vermillion Gym but then run out of time to get it done in under an hour! -- https://ko-fi.com/lokathor
Today we're doing Whomp's Fortress. There a few mix ups here and there but it all gets done. -- https://ko-fi.com/lokathor
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Here's that Last Airbender video I mentioned near the end, https://youtu.be/5TCdjbMWrzQ, and if you go to the other videos on the account they have seasons 2 and 3 also.
We make our way past Veridian City and nearly run out of pokeballs with all these mons to be found.
Shout outs: • Universal Pokemon Game Randomizer (java program) • The Greatest Generation (podcast) • No One Can Know About This (podcast) • Daniel K'd Let's Plays (podcast) • TroytlePower Presents: The Power Play-throughs Podcast with TroytlePower (podcast)