The Platformers Podcast

The new father is home again and ready to talk about games. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Brian's New Baby - 0:00 |SkyboxCritics.com - 3:00 |Tempest Rising - 16:30 |StarVaders - 28:45 |Capcom Fighting Collection 2  - 36:40 |Fresh Tracks - 43:49 |Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 49:04 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):+We Have Goku At Home |Kris Apologizes For Not Being French (But Not Really) |+Abducted By An Art Deco House |+I'm Gonna Daigo Umehara The Paintress |+The Things We Do For Horse Testicles |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

It's time for a spectacularly off-the-rails episode of The Platformers, and this episode includes the incomparable Jarrett Green, who joins Brian, Kris, Lucas, and Will to talk games, Tim Curry saying “Space!,” Nancy Reagan, Sammy Davis Jr's perm, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves - 3:00 |Assassin's Creed Shadows - 37:00 |The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - 1:14:00 |Blue Prince - 1:31:00 |Caves of Qud - 1:41:00 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):++See Jarrett's Great Works & Tremble |+The Cold Breeze Off A Blue Hole |Those Who Have Eyes To See & Ears To Hear |+++Speed Getting Punched In The Dick By Monks |+Assassin's Creed With Doctor Who Roughly Stapled On Top |+Smashing My Face Into The Switch |+++Horny (Complimentary) |++Some Days You Wake Up With A Bomb In Your Pocket, Some Days You Are Just Happy To See Me |+++The Jigglypuffs Have Started Making Weapons & Worshipping Us As Gods  |++++Hard “R” RPG |++A Small Baboon The Size Of A Large Baboon |All I Have To Do Is Eat Glue Once To Beat You |+Look What They Need To Mimic A Fraction Of My Heavenly Pot Buster |++Tell Me About Your Own Personal Throat GOAT |+He Is Risen |++On A Scale Of The Kennedy Assassination To Tim Curry Saying “Space” |++Once You Mention Nancy Reagan, The Only Thing Left To Do Is Finish |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

It's time for another episode of The Platformers, which means Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about wildly obscure games, demos and comics. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Citizen Sleeper 2 Ending (Kris) - 4:50 |DOOM, DOOM 2, DOOM 64 - 10:15 |Trails In The Sky Remake - 15:00 |Audrey's Book Corner: Marvel Ultimate Comics - 23:58 |The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - 34:50 |Shuffle Tactics DEMO, TMNT Tactical Takedown DEMO - 53:50 |OneShot - 1:08:54 |Momodora Moonlit Farewell - 1:18:30 |Saga Frontier 2 Remastered - 1:28:50 |Weird Bit - 1:50:00 |Marvel Rivals - 1:52:00 |Resident Evil 4 - 1:58:00 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):Your Diamond Goddess |++My Thighs Have Jiggle Physics |++Persona 3 Magical Girl Blood Dress-Up |+The Wholesome Delinquent |Wart Blows Bubbles, Revealing You Were Radically Dreaming All Along |+I Guess You Guys Aren't Ready For That Yet, But Your Kids Are Gonna Love It |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

It's time for another episode of The Platformers, which means Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about wildly obscure games, demos and what Hatsune Miku would look like if she were raised as a child soldier. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Marvel Rivals Competitive - 0:00 |Citizen Sleeper 2 - 10:00 |Look Outside - 22:00 |He Is Coming - 36:44 |Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist Of Memories & The Envisioned Land - 45:45 |Castle V Castle - 58:41 |Carmen Sandiego - 1:04:43 |Steam Sale Games, Returnal - 1:30:00 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):I Had To Deal With A Skunk And A Dryer Fire |++Admitting To Smurfing In Public |We Made An Adjustment To Namor's Eggs |++Brian Knows Everything About Namor's Eggs |Luna, Give Me Your Eggs! |++What If Hatsune Miku Was A Child Soldier? |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

It's time for a late-night meat session (whatever that means) as Brian, Kris, and Will talk about Rainbow Six Siege X, Expelled!, WWE, and a lot more. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Monster Hunter Wilds - 0:00 |WWE 2K25 - 24:36 |Marvel Rivals - 28:09 |Brian's Turntable - Coheed & Cambria: The Father Of Make Believe - 34:00 |War Robots: Frontiers - 39:35 |Expelled! - 46:00 |Slime Heroes - 56:05 |Rainbow Six Siege X Dual Front Preview - 1:05:40 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):++Like A Well-Oiled Machine, I Rise |The Guild Authorizes Me To Be On This Podcast |A Hair's Breadth Away From Dying |Bloodborne, You Say? |Give ‘Em The Ol' Pizza Cutter |Arms & Diapers! AGAIN! |+EVERY DAY I WAKE UP |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

It's time for a wholesome twosome with Brian and Kris, as they Hunt Monsters, Drive in the Pacific, and rave about Rivals. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Marvel Rivals - 0:00 |Monster Hunter Wilds - 1:30 |Marvel Rivals Torch & The Thing Patch - 17:15 |Pacific Drive - 31:00 |The Dark Queen of Mortholme - 43:40 |Our Life: Beginnings and Always - 44:34 |Audrey's Book Corner: Hulk In Hell - 48:22 |Yakuza: Pirates Booty - 53:27 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):Like A Bad Penny, I Keep Coming Back |My Other Car Is An Insect Glaive |I'd Rather Be Bouncing On It |Mobility Out The Ass |Hanging Out with My Buddy, The Darkness |Would A Shenmue 3 By Any Other Name Still Smell As Sweet? |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

2025 has tons of great games already, so Brian, Kris, and Lucas talked about some of them. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Intro - 0:00 |Guilty Gear Strive Switch - 2:20 |Spirit Swap: Lo-Fi Beats to Match 3 To - 9:19 |BIT: Something Terrible Must Have Happened To Brian - 24:30 |Europa Universalis IV: Anbennar - 31:23 |Thronefall - 40:20 |Rift of the Necrodancer - 53:23 |BIT: Playing Guitar Hero With A Dark Souls Controller - 59:49 |Citizen Sleeper 2: Skyward Vector - 1:08:03 |LOK Digital - 1:49:53 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):2024 Was The Last Good Year In Games |Sorcerous Vibes |Something Terrible Must Have Happened To Brian |Blink Twice If You're Under Duress |So I Went Around Jihading Everything |I Need To Play Guitar Hero With A Dark Souls Controller |+I Aim To Displease |The Children Yearn For The Clamshell |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

It's time for the blood to flow. Brian, Kris, Will, and Lucas bring their top 40 games of 2024 and then brutally cut each other's choices until only the 10 best remain. Enjoy!TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:Intro - 0:00 |Format Explanation - 1:39 |Kris' Top 10 - 4:57 |Will's Top 10 - 5:40 |Lucas' Top 10 - 6:17 |Brian's Top 10 - 4:57 |Building The List - 9:16 |Protected Games - 11:16 |V Rising - 13:36 |Metaphor: ReFantazio - 14:29 |The Axis Unseen - 23:06 |Marvel Rivals - 27:09 |Read Only Memories: Neurodiver - 32:22 |Inkbound - 35:25 |Indika - 40:10 |Metal Slug Tactics - 45:00 |Rise Of The Ronin - 51:04 |Earth Defense Force 6 - 59:05 |Wizardry - 1:08:56 |Indiana Jones & The Great Circle - 1:16:20 |Lorelei & the Laser Eyes - 1:25:52 |Yars Rising - 1:30:00 |Fate/Stay Night Remastered - 1:37:20 |Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - 1:43:33 |Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance - 1:50:50 |Neva - 1:53:55 |SMTV (Full Discussion) - 2:00:05 |MechWarrior 5: Clans - 2:09:20 |Pacific Drive - 2:18:50 |Dustborn - 2:28:05 |Shiren The Wanderer - 2:32:02 |Helldivers 2 - 2:39:53 |Narrowing It Down To The Top 10 - Part 1 |More Helldivers 2 - 2:52:53 |Wizardry Part 2 - 2:58:38 |Like A Dragon - Infinite Wealth - 3:04:44 |UFO50 - 3:11:20 |MechWarrior 5: Clans - 3:21:55 |Ordering The Top 10 - 3:26:38 |Tekken 8 - 3:27:32 |SaGa Emerald Beyond - 3:35:07 |Skald: Against The Black Priory - 3:46:24 |Balatro - 3:53:38 |Will's Proposed Top 10 Order - 4:01:19 |Mouthwashing - 4:06:08 |1000xResist - 4:10:44 |The Final Ordered List & Honorable Mentions - 4:15:45 |Heart & Critic Picks - 4:17:49 |POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):John Platformers |++Torso Like A Dr. Mario Level |++Paint Me Like One Of Your French Turtles |I Cut My Own Game In Solidarity |A Weird Hill To Die On, But At Least You're Dead |Stockpiling Social Capital |How About That Invisible Woman, Though? |+Man Cannot Live On Metroid Alone |We Solved The Action Game 20 Years Ago |+If This Is Being Sick, I Don't Wanna Be Well |Amazing Hot Dog |When You Don't Want The SMT Cake |I Was Trying To Be Reasonable |+Send It Into The Great Emerald Beyond |What If We Remade Cuneiform? |Allowing Yourself To Be Consumed By The Darkness |+I Want You To Tell Playstack It Was Me |+Hair to Hair, Sphere to Square, 6 to 1 |+In The Company Of Three Very Long Men |The Platformers Top 10 Games of 20241000xResistMouthwashingSkald: Against the Black PrioryTekken 8LAD: Infinite WealthSaGa Emerald BeyondPacific DriveMechWarrior 5: ClansBalatroWizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad OverlordHONORABLE MENTIONS:V Rising |Metaphor: ReFantazio |Marvel Rivals |Read Only Memories: Neurodiver |Inkbound |Metal Slug: Tactics |Rise of the Ronin |EDF 6 |Indiana Jones & the Great Circle |Lorelei & the Laser Eyes |Yars Rising |Fate/Stay Night Remastered |Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred |Indika |Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance |The Axis Unseen |Dustborn |Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island |Helldivers 2 |Neva |UFO 50 |Power Rangers Rita's Rewind |Castlevania Dominus Collection |Harold Halibut |Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven |Shadow Generations |Tactical Breach Wizards |Cataclismo (Early Access) |Thank Goodness You're Here |Dragon Age: The Veilguard |Arranger |Marvel VS Capcom Infinite & Beyond (Mod) |MvC Collection |[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

In the last pre-GOTY 2024 episode, Brian, Kris, Will, and Lucas get together to talk about Star Wars, Ninja Gaiden, and a whole lot more. Enjoy! TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Star Wars & Andor - 0:00 | Ninja Gaiden II Black - 3:06 | Dragon Ball Sparking Zero + Season Pass 1 - 23:00 | Steam RTS Fest, Tempest Rising - 34:40 | Zero Space - 40:20 | Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles - 47:15 | River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next - 1:13:15 | Skald: Against The Black Priory - 1:25:14 | Phantom Brave 2: The Lost Hero - 1:27:29 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Delimbing People Left, Right, & Center | We'll Always Have Dune | Done Wrong By Gundam | +Wili Leaks | +Blame Will | Beasts All Over The Shop | +I Think We Gotta Kill This Guy, Brian | +A Dying Christmas Ornament | +Dad, Who Is Jar-Jar Binks Which Lightsaber Is Yours? “It's the One That Says ‘Bad Mother F@((er' On It” | +Hot Topic Weirdo | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

This week, Brian, Kris, Will and Lucas discuss the many mishaps of Dynasty Warriors trying to take itself seriously. We also discuss Tempest Rising, Blade Chimera, 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Movies - 4:21 | Marvel Rivals - 7:33 | Tempest Rising - 15:24 | Blade Chimera - 44:28 | Synduality: Echoes of Ada - 57:33 | 1000xResist - 1:09:02 | 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 1:11:43 | Dynasty Warriors: Origins & Ludonarrative Dissonance - 1:22:10 | Crimson Desert - 2:07:20 | Outro - 2:25:10 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Not Degenerate, It's Just... A Lot | +2025: The Horny Age | +Living Under The Bus | +This Is Not Your Daddy's Bomberman | The Problem With Video Games Is... | +Power Is All That Matters, Now Train With Me For XP | +If You're Not Done Talking in 4 Minutes I'm Gonna Start Yodelling | +No Yodelling Required | Picard Facepalm Meme | +Damn, Sonic, I Think We're Gonna Have To Kill This Guy | +You Don't Get Points For Being At The Bus Stop | The Mouse's Favorite Cheese | +Steam Tag: Aerial Raves | +It's A Weird Hill To Die On But At Least You'll Be Dead | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written & streamed (⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode edited by Kris 'Delfeir' Cornelisse.]

This week, Brian and Kris continue to push through the backlog ahead of the GOTY discussion. We also discuss Neva, Marvel Rivals, Metaphor, Indiana Jones, Skald and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | 1000xResist Impressions - 2:14 | TMNT: Turtles in Time - 6:20 | Neva - 9:00 | Marvel Rivals Patch - 15:36 | Metaphor: ReFantazio Ending & Full Review - 23:05 | Lorelei & the Laser Eyes - 33:45 | Indiana Jones & the Great Circle - 42:22 | Skald: Against The Black Priory - 51:52 | Majuular's YouTube Series on Ultima - 1:04:00 | Outro - 1:18:09 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Hair to Hair, Sphere to Square | +He's Ruthless, But Sometimes He's Full of Ruth | Ruthful | O'Dell Harmon Jr Still Owes Me A Steak Dinner | +We Were Thoroughly Whelmed | +Person & Adjective Noun | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written & streamed (⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode hosted by Kris 'Delfeir' Cornelisse.]

This week, Brian, Kris, Will and Lucas talk about vampires for a while. We also discuss Marvel games, the Ys series, the World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary Celebration, Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | The Last Murder at the End of the World - 7:23 | A Haunting In Venice - 8:31 | Nosferatu - 15:19 | Marvel Rivals - 27:20 | Marvel VS Capcom Infinite & Beyond - 39:51 | Ys Memoir: The Oath In Felghana - 50:26 | World Of Warcraft 20th Anniversary Celebration - 1:04:14 | Gravity Circuit, Vengeful Guardian Moonrider, Slave Zero X - 1:29:17 | Dragon's Dogma 2 - 1:34:29 | Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind - 1:36:52 | Outro - 2:11:57 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Beating The Shit Out of 100 Geodudes is Not "Raising With Love And Care" | ++We Stan A Ratking | +50 Of The Lord's Own Gigabytes | ++The Odds Of Being Killed By A PSP Are Low, But Never Zero | Hurt Like Jesus | Yeesh, Memories Of Celceta | ++Trails Of Cold Stone Creamery | +Will's Throbbing Vein | +Struggling Against The Tentacle Robot | Think About It Like You Have Quarters | Slaps The Roof of the Podcast | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written & streamed (⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode hosted by Kris 'Delfeir' Cornelisse.]

This week, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about lightsabers. We also discuss Star Wars Outlaws, Sonic the Hedgehog Movie 3, Dragon Age Veilguard, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Tokyo Clanpool and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 Star Wars Stuff - 1:26 | Star Wars Outlaws - 15:34 | Sonic The Hedgehog 3: The Movie - 29:05 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard - 49:43 | The Case Of The Golden Idol - 1:05:05 | Tokyo Clanpool - 1:13:38 | Metaphor: ReFantazio - 1:37:11 | Outro - 2:11:16 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): ++Famous Vulcan Luke Skywalker | ++Big Garrus Energy | +Droid Vietnam Flashbacks | ++50% Real Movie By Volume | +Mere Humans Amidst The Hedgehog | ++Tokyo Clam Pool | Rubbing Link's Abs | +++Just Reporting The Nudes | +And Speaking of Gooning... | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written & streamed (⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode hosted by Kris 'Delfeir' Cornelisse.]

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Fantasian: Neo Dimension - 2:00 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard - 30:20 | Balatro - 52:00 | Indiana Jones & the Great Circle - 1:05:59 | Sonic X Shadow Generations - 1:24:49 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): The Hand We've Been Dealt By The Lower Thirds | Graphic Design Is Not My Passion | King Willy: A Gentleman & Scholar | Meaningful Homework | Dopamine Factories, In A State Of Disrepair | Carrying My ROG Around Like A Teddy Bear | Putting Your Firstborn On The Altar For Localthunk | Lucas White: Sonic Super Guy | Emblematic Of Everything Wrong: The Shadow The Hedgehog Story | The LJN Seal Of ‘Quality' | [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 what makes for a compelling setting (in Star Wars, Dragon Age, and more), Black Ops 6 fantastic (and silly) multiplayer, Tetris Forever's documentary bent, Infinity Nikki's surprising quality, and a whole lot more. Enjoy! TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Infinity Nikki - 0:00 | Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 - 20:27 | Star Wars: Dark Forces Remake - 33:00 | Star Wars Outlaws - 38:00 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard - 54:00 | Tetris Forever - 1:19:00 | Tactical Breach Wizards - 1:42:00 | Dragon Quest III HD2D Remake - 1:43:40 | Antonblast - 1:57:55 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): The Host With The Most (Delicious Cocktail) | Lucas ‘Throat GOAT' White | I Hate It When Games Pelter Me | You Ever Fired Your Gun Whilst Jumping Through The Air? | +How To Blow Up A ‘Wizardry To Tetris' Pipeline | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

This week, Brian, Kris and Will can't stop thinking about the British Empire. We also discuss Mouthwashing (again), the Limited Run Games pop-up store, Dragon's Dogma 2, Dragon Age and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Mouthwashing - 6:25 | Limited Run Games Pop-Up Store - 21:19 | Dragon's Dogma II - 38:15 | Dragon Age: The Veilguard - 47:01 | Outro - 1:12:05 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Plugging Him Because He Cannot Plug Himself | Plug, Not Peg! Important Distinction | Diet British | Now With 98% More Curse Words | Australi-On, Apply Directly To The British | The British Empire Is My Roman Empire | They Have Chlamydia Bears | Grab A Game Off The Wall | First Domino: Mori Puts A 55” Nail On Bang's Back | DEI Chin | Sometimes You Just Gotta Throw Orb | [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 heartily endorse Dragonbreath X, guaranteed to kill 99% of all germs. We also discuss Rise of the Golden Idol, the Warcraft remasters, Dragon Ball Daima, Metal Slug Tactics, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Rise Of The Golden Idol - 5:21 | Mouthwashing - 14:51 | Warcraft Remasters - 23:08 | Dragon Ball Daima - 50:06 | Metal Slug Tactics - 1:01:49 | Outro - 1:23:55 POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Retiring The Dodgers Hat | A Cocktail Made With Yankee Tears | Drinking Mouthwash Live on Stream | $12.99? Too Rich For My Blood | There Are Dozens Of Us | [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 wax philosophical on the state of the industry and the endless pursuit of the next big live service. We also discuss Mouthwashing, Vampire Survivors, V Rising, Wayfinder, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Mouthwashing - 2:13 | Vampire Survivors: Ode To Castlevania - 10:32 | V Rising - 20:00 | Wayfinder - 22:58 | The State Of Gaming's Live Service ‘Speculative Marketplace' - 34:58 | Outro - 1:10:18 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +No Calories and No Taste | It'll Get You Drunk | +It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere | Roll Credits, Only To Find That Was Just The Tutorial | +Do Not Chase The Mythical Billion Dollar Live Service | +That Way Lies Madness | [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 keeps trying to talk about urinal troughs, much to the chagrin of Kris, Will and Lucas. We also discuss Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania, Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Zombies, Romancing SaGa 2 Remake, The Fear Business, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. Guest starring Jake the Dog the Cat. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | World Series Of Baseball & Jake The Cat - 0:32 | Audrey's Book Corner - Blade & Bastard: Wizardry - 7:53 | Vampire Survivors: Ode To Castlevania DLC - 15:39 | Call of Duty Black Ops 6: Zombies - 31:41 | Guilty Gear Strive (Dizzy) - 39:25 | Romancing Saga 2 (Remake) - 49:09 | The Fear Business - 1:05:11 | Wizardry Variants Daphne - 1:14:33 | Outro - 1:23:46 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Graced By Jake | Body By Jake | Pumpkin Spice Bitch | The Litterbox Of Dorian Gray | We Have Castlevania At Home But It's Actually Just Castlevania | Biblically Accurate Call of Duty | Inserting SOMETHING Into The Wall Trough Urinal | Spooky Season Never Ends | Top 5 Ways To Eat Sonic The Hedgehog | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse... eventually!]

This week, Brian and Kris find yet another way to talk about Balatro. We also discuss The Plucky Squire, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, and a smattering of other topics. We even talk about Hellsing Ultimate for some reason. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Balatro (Mobile) - 4:54 | Deadlock - 12:15 | The Plucky Squire - 17:17 | Steam Next Fest Shovelware - 24:32 | StarVaders - 26:01 | Diablo IV: Vessel Of Hatred - 29:51 | Metaphor: ReFantazio - 52:20 | Hellsing Ultimate For No Particular Reason - 1:15:29 | Outro - 1:17:18 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): I Will Fight You On Behalf of Yakuza Games Everywhere | It's Gonna Be League | +Church Bad Because They Don't Let You F**k Dragons | I Don't Know If He's GOOD... But He's Not A Nazi | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse... eventually!]

This week, Brian, Kris, Will and Lucas about the value of understanding personal tastes. We also discuss Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis, Deadlock, Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | The Industry Needs Sequels - 2:27 | Persona 3 Reload and Episode Aigis - 8:29 | Deadlock - 35:36 | Master Detective Archives: Rain Code Plus - 46:20 | Silent Hill 2 - 1:11:45 | Understanding What You Like & Why - 1:26:08 | Horror Game Recommendations - 1:39:40 | Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero - 1:48:25 | Outro - 2:05:41 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Skyskipping | + Capcom Closes Down A Lot In This Fantasy Timeline | + I Play Elizabeth Because I Hate My Opponents | + On A Scale Of 1 To 'The Kennedy Assassination' | + Blastin' Ropes On Mickey | + Sparking Segue | If You Mix Weeb Shit and Horror, You Go To Some Places You Don't Want To Sometimes | + Leave The Edit In, Because SOMETHING Happened | [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, Will and Lucas discuss the insanity of the early Persona series. We also discuss Frostpunk 2, Yars Rising, the Marvel vs Capcom Collection, and a smattering of other topics. Marin Karin, you will now enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Personal News ‘Brian' - 6:10 | Marvel VS Capcom Collection - 12:22 | Frostpunk 2 - 24:34 | Jay & Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch - 37:58 | Yars Rising - 41:10 | Persona 3 Reload - 51:44 | Epic Mickey Remake - 1:19:35 | Outro - 1:21:22 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): + Forged In The Bowels Of The Old Internet | + Something Awful Was In His Blood, Quite Literally | + He Was A Goon, By The Previous Definition Of Goon | + Fighting Games = Good | Baseball Filibuster | + Beware The Wazzler | Your Soul Is Mine, Your Money Is Mine, You Gon' Learn Today Kid, Etc. | + Putting The "Fun" In Refund | Brian, A Jury of Kittens Would Convict You | Kris Is A Pervert For Residential Zoning | + Gather More Coal For Me, Or You All Starve | + Oh No We're Doing A Colonialism | Shoutout To Our British Fans, Who Are Angrily Eating Beans on Toast At This Moment | + Your Antagonist is Hitler Wielding The Lance of Longinus And Empowered By A Lovecraftian Elder God | + The Children Yearn For Jazz And Don't Know Where It Comes From | Secreting Style | + Tentarafoooooooooo! | [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: Indie Games - 1:00 | Hollow Home, Void Train - 6:20 | Pizza Bandit - 9:20 | Demon Spore - 16:43 | Heartworm - 20:00 | OneWay.Exe - 27:00 | Mouthwashing - 34:18 | Beastie Ball - 41:14 | Fatal Run: 2089 - 44:14 | Unyielder - 48:00 | The Chronos Event - 55:00 | Whisper Mountain Outbreak - 58:38 | Ender Magnolia - 1:04:00 | Playism, Nitro Express - 1:06:44 | Romancing Saga, Fantasian, Dragon Quest 3 - 1:08:30 | Spray Paint Simulator, and more - 1:10:30 | Regular Home Renovation Simulator - 1:15:20 | Everdeep Aurora - 1:18:00 | Love Eternal - 1:19:51 | Slitterhead - 1:24:30 | Retro Realms - 1:27:20 | Indie Expo, Scholomatch - 1:31:30 | Chain Staff, Lost Eidolons, Other Honorable Mentions - 1:35:00 | Unknown 9: Awakening, Other Games - 1:36:30 | Corpse Party 2 - 1:45:00 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Selling Model Kits To Perverts | Gordon Ramsay's Pizza Bandit | A Chef Mad Enough To Kill You With Their Mind | +Vanquish For The Assman | +Stacked In Defiance Of God | +Saving The Future With The Power Of Badonkadonk | Hogwarts, But A Polyamorous, Pansexual, F$%#pile Match-3 Puzzle Game | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, edited & streamed (Twitch.tv/Ribnax) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett]

This week, Brian, Kris and Lucas make entirely too many video game dildo references. We also discuss The War Within, Gundam Breaker 4, MvC Collection, Little Goody Two Shoes and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Dilsos, and no I'm not correcting that - 1:30 | Audrey's Book Corner: Kitchen Confidential - 5:59 | Baldur's Gate III - 10:57 | Kaos - 16:06 | World of Warcraft: The War Within - 22:12 | Gundam Breaker 4 - 29:59 | Marvel Vs. Capcom Collection - 49:10 | Little Goody Two Shoes - 1:26:29 | Castlevania Dominus Collection - 1:37:05 | Risk Of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm - 2:00:00 | What The Car - 2:08:19 | Visions Of Mana - 2:22:52 | Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 - 2:28:59 | Outro - 2:41:51 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Dilsos | +Tier List For Video Game Dildos | +Shoutouts to Future Kris | Every Moment of Every Day, I Curse Past Kris | Get Those Grippers Off Screen, Man | +Vegeta Feet OnlyFans | I'm Just Sitting Here Contemplating My Life At This Point | +Sooner Or Later, You Find A Dead Tiefling Bard In Your Bed | Brain: Optional | ++Going Hard In The Taint | Grinding Whip Lore | +I Think That's Just Called Waterboarding | +The Youth Are Revolting | I'll Take This Opportunity to Shit On Gearbox | +He's One of Those Characters With A Really Punchable Face | Gearbox As A Whole Are Just Frauds | Wiggly Games & Weird-Em Ups | And They Say We Don't Support The Troops | Almost, But Not Quite, Completely Wrong | +Exactly Wrong in All The Right Ways | +Full Circumference | Wait A Second, These Are Dick Jokes! | [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 are locked in a podcast with Lucas while he talks about Fate/Stay Night. We also discuss Sam & Max, Stormgate, The Plucky Squire, Path of Exile and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Attack of the Clones & Revenge of the Sith Novels - 1:31 | Delicious In Dungeon & The Otherworlder Exploring The Dungeon - 3:39 | Use Of Weapons - 14:17 | X-Men '97 - 16:30 | Marvel vs Capcom Series - 21:28 | Brotato - 25:07 | Bakeru - 27:14 | Stormgate - 35:18 | Marvel Puzzle League, Sackboy: A Big Adventure - 49:39 | Sam & Max Remasters - 51:30 | The Plucky Squire - 1:01:24 | Risk Of Rain Returns, Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes - 1:08:54 | Path of Exile Settlers League 1:12:45 | Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins - 1:15:56 | Fate/Stay Night - 1:29:36 | Once Human - 1:32:13 | Outro - 1:36:18 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +We're Just Innocent Men! | Weeb, Says The Weeb to the Other Weeb | You Can Watch X-Men '97 Without Seeing The First 96 | We Have Starcraft 2 At Home | +We Have Frostmourne At Home | +The Starcraft 2 We Have At Home... is Starcraft 2 | +She's Launch From Dragonball, If Launch Was Secretly Aware The Whole Time | +You Need A Sherpa to Navigate Path of Exile | +You're Gonna Recoil In Horror, This Is Normal | +Each Skill Point Is The Little Death That Brings Obliteration | People Tell Me This Story Gets Good, I Don't Believe Them | +Time To Lock You In A Room So I Can Talk About Fate/Stay Night | Oddly Compelling, Bones Are Fun | +Part of the Ship, Part of the Crew | +Naming Your Cat Something Unspeakable | [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 and Kris discuss the Olympics, since that qualifies as games. We also discuss Eastward, 2XKO, Cataclismo, Magical Delicacy and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Breakdancing Is Canceled (and other Olympic stories) - 1:35 | Eastward, OMORI & LISA - 7:23 | Mecha Break - 17:30 | 2XKO - 21:05 | Cataclismo - 29:51 | Under Night In-Birth 2: Sys: Celes - Uzuki DLC - 41:02 | SMTV Vengeance - 51:24 | FF14 and WoW - 53:09 | Magical Delicacy - 1:01:08 | Outro - 1:10:04 POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): ++ It Is A Berry Smoothie, It Just Also Has Tequila In It | Australia Got Breakdancing Canceled | + Breakdancing Is Canceled | ++ Congratulations, You Broke Dancing | + Winning The Pole Vault, But At What Cost? | + I Didn't Win, Because I Won At Character Select | + "Fuck Mecha", Says Godzilla | + Looking In On UNI2 Like "You Guys Doing Alright? ...Oh, Oh That Is Some Bullshit, You're Doing Fine" | ++ I Don't Have Object Permanence, Where Are You? | + Lost In The Grocery Store | [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 insist you play more fighting games. We also discuss EVO, EDF6, EA Sports College Football, Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure, Thank Goodness You're Here, and a smattering of other topics. CUBE! TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | EVO - 1:31 | Audrey's Book Corner: Chapterhouse Dune - 12:54 | Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail - 22:44 | Brian's Surprise Dodgers Game - 25:06 | 2XKO - 27:10 | Earth Defense Force 6 - 35:25 | Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure - 42:40 | EA Sports College Football 25 - 48:50 | Thank Goodness You're Here - 57:31 | The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Spaced - 1:02:52 | Deadpool & Wolverine, Twisters - 1:06:09 | Outro - 1:11:36 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): ++ CUBE! | Chipotle Card Holding Will Borger | I Will Toot His Horn For Him | ++ Have Steam Deck, Will Fight Game | Audrey's Birthday Corner | + It's Late, The Americans Are Asleep, Post About FF14 | EDF! EDF! EDF! | + A Very Stupid Premise, Made Very Smartly | The Fever, It Has Been Catched | ++ The Game is Rigged, But It's The Only Game in Town | + Walk Around As A Tiny Yellow Dude Slapping People | Glenn Powell in a Cowboy Hat | ++ Sometimes All You Need is a Quickie | [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 discuss the effects of hurricanes on gamers. We also discuss Elden Ring, Gestalt: Steam and Cinder, Final Fantasy 14, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Intro - 0:00 | Elden Ring DLC - 5:56 | Gestalt: Steam & Cinder - 26:07 | Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail - 36:42 | Sackboy: A Big Adventure - 1:14:36 | Encouraging People To Experience Life - 1:18:31 | Outro - 1:24:36 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): + The Worst Promise | + I, For One, Could Believe Lucas Is Made Of Butter | Butter Lucas | + The Balatro Never Ceased | + Over By The Turtle Pope | + Not The Most Enjoyable Kind Of Hanky-Panky | + Just Throw Me Into The Sea | + Shutting The Fuck Up Is Free | + Hated Endwalker So Much, I Went Back to WoW: Shadowlands | It's Worse Than Filler, It's Just Garbage | + Cranking the Face Sliders to 500% is Comedy Gold | + Shoutouts to Wuk Lamat | + Giant Two-Headed Lizard Shows Up And Fixes Everyone's Problems | + Do I Actually Believe What I'm About To Say? | The Lucas Spit-Take Is Delightful | + Sixpool Zerg Rush or You're Not Eating Dinner | [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, an unsupervised Kris and Lucas co-opt the podcast for real RPG sicko discussions. We also discuss Final Fantasy 14, Shin Megami Tensei 5, Stellaris, Mon-Yu, and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS Intro - 0:00 | Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail - 0:46 | Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance - 46:51 | Stellaris - 1:27:27 | Mon-Yu - 1:31:11 | Outro - 1:45:09 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): + The Shin Megami Tensei 5 Power Hour | Brian Said Something About A Blowjob, But Might Just Be A Hurricane | + In Case of Primal, Break Glass | Okay, FF7 Reference, Here We Go... No! It Was a 1.0 Reference All Along! | + What If We Just Told FF4 Again, But Worse | + Healing Difficulty Level is Dependent on How Much My Teammates Fuck Up | Anytime You Make A Choice, She's Like "You Shouldn't Trust Either of These Motherfuckers" | + 7/10, But A Really Good 7/10 + Truly A Sicko Episode If There Ever Was One | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, written, & streamed (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch.tv/Ribnax⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) by Brian ‘Ribnax' Barnett. This episode hosted and edited by Kris Cornelisse.]

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.]

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about conventions and travel. We also talk about Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, What The Golf, Super Robot Wars and a smattering of other topics. Pay no attention to the fact that Brian opens the show with the wrong episode number, it's definitely 307. Enjoy. TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS Mental Health - 5:30 | Brian at Capcom Cup - 12:00 | (PAX West) Visions of Mana - 19:25 | (PAX West) LUCID - 27:10 | (PAX West) Freaked Fleapit - 31:37 | Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - 39:39 | Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 49:30 | Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 55:05 | Balatro - 1:04:02 | What The Golf - 1:18:47 | Dragon's Dogma 2 (and Capcom Microtransactions) - 1:21:47 | Super Robot Wars 30 (and Original Generations) - 1:25:34 | Conclusion - 1:41:09 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): It's Not A Horse, It's A Bicycle +Getting A Cast For A Broken Ankle While A Spear Is Stuck In Your Chest You Have An ADHD Butt + Fighting A Four-Year-Old on Dynamic Controls There's Literally Dozens of Mana Fans A Game Far More Degenerate Than The First Two + NEKUTAI! + The Horrific Necktie From Disco Elysium Lives On + The Only Way I Can Describe It Is "Unhinged" + The Good Kind of Degeneracy + I Was Today Years Old When I Found Out About Muv-Luv + The Balls It Takes For Those Developers To Gaslight Their Playerbase For An Entire Game + "It's Edgelord-y" Is Not An Argument You Can Sit Down And Wait Until I've Recovered From Like A Dragon + You Sat Down To Play Poker With A Yu-Gi-Oh Deck I've Also Been Playing Capcom's Dragon Slaying Game... By Which I Mean Replaying Monster Hunter World What The Hell Do You Know About Super Robot Wars + Can A Series Really Be Trash If They Have Robots In Them? + There's Trash, There's Trash With Robots, There's Good Stuff With Robots, It's A Sliding Scale There Absolutely Is Such A Thing As Bad Pizza + Super Robot Wars 30 Is Not A Misnomer, There's 30 Of Them + This Is Fan Service, We Know What You're Here For, You Will Be Serviced, It Will Be Great + I Need To Kill My Perfectionism, Because It's Killing My Time [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, Kris, Will and Lucas talk heavily about the game's industry and the impending collapse of the triple A video game. We also talk about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and other Final Fantasy 7 media, Shiren the Wanderer, Unicorn Overlord, Last Epoch and a smattering of other topics. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Fort Condor - 0:23 | Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 4:47 | Final Fantasy 7: On The Way To A Smile - 16:51 | Narrative vs. Lore - 35:58 | The FF7 Remake Project - 42:08 | The State of the Triple A Games Industry (ft. Comic Books) - 48:10 | Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 1:33:17 | Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island - 1:39:45 | Unicorn Overlord Demo - 2:00:34 | Last Epoch - 2:19:27 | Conclusions - 2:23:02 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): My Wife is Just As Upset As I am, For Entirely Different And More Sane Reasons | Blitzball Remains Undefeated as the Best Final Fantasy Minigame | +++ Square Enix Accidentally Made a 150 Million Dollar Dreamcast Game | +++ Everywhere is the Gold Saucer, Including the Gold Saucer, But Also the Areas Surrounding the Gold Saucer | + Excuse Me, I Heard You Say Wave Race? | + It's Like He Did It Just To Hurt Me, and Me Specifically | +++ Please Tell Me There's No Tower Climbing, For The Love of God | + We Identified The Issue, And Then Left it in to Fuck With You | + People Who Do That Should Step on Legos for an Entire Day | + I'm Going To Walk Into The Sea, Bro | +++ I'm Gonna Use My 18 Inches of Sephiroth as God Intended | ++ After 18 Inches of Sephiroth, There Are No More Worlds Left to Conquer | + You Die An Eco-Terrorist, or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become A Capitalist | Feeding Tonberries Into A Woodchipper | + Kira! Bring Me The Tonberry! | + 18 Inches of Tonberry | Let Me Just Put My Catatonic Friend Here | + Yes, Dirge of Cerberus Will Be On The Test | But How Do We Make NFTs Out of This? | You're Treating Strep Throat With A Cough Drop, Dude | + At All Times, Avoid Becoming Destiny | The Face of the Guy Kiryu's Grating Against A Car Bonnet Doesn't Matter | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas dig into the various Granblue Fantasy games. We also talk about Helldivers 2, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, Helskate, Qomp 2, and a smattering of other topics. Audience participation is extensive for this one. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Elden Ring - 2:44 | Bandai Namco - 14:18 | Brian's Soulsborne Challenge Runs - 16:30 | Helldivers 2 - 19:45 | Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - 41:17 | Autoshooters/Bullet Heaven - 55:59 | Podcast Length ft. A Message Sent to Brian - 59:29 | Helskate - 1:02:23 | Qomp 2 - 1:29:46 | Support Indies, or The Need to Create - 1:36:38 | Granblue Fantasy Relink (and the Granblue Franchise) - 1:47:52 | Conclusions - 2:24:20 | Platformers Podcast: Origins - 2:33:45 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Sigyl I Am | +++ Let Brian Solo Her | Waterfowl Dance Can't Kill You If You Just Kill Her Before She Does It | It's A Different Story if Gundam Tries to Walk | ++ Not Free Damage, Not Free Damage! | ++ Don't Do It For The Medals, Do It For The Good of Super Earth | Ran Into A Few Bugs... And We Killed Them, As You Do | ++ Turns Out You Get Hit By Explosions A Lot | +Helldivers Needs an Exoprimal Crossover | A Great Faction to Oppose Space Fascists is More Space Fascists | Noone Expects The Super Earth Inquisition | It's Sony, So It Had To Be a Third Person Shooter | ++ Your Peashooter Has Very Little Downtime, But It Also Shoots Peas | + I Dig It, Literally | + If We Didn't Have Breath of the Wild or Genshin Impact, We Wouldn't Have Sonic Frontiers | ++ Mailygis Backwards | + All East Coasts Are Created Equal | +++ Instead of Manualing Between Grind Rails, You're Killing A Dude | + Support Your Indies, They're The Only Ones Doing Anything Worth A Damn Nowadays | + Only Support the FICTIONAL Hyper-Capitalist Fascists | ++ Tim Curry Was Wrong, It's Capitalist Here Too | + Sharknados Will Continue Until Morale Improves | + It's Been Ship of Theseus'd Like Four Times | ++ Infinite Wealth! It's Infinite! And Wealth! | ++ Get Ready To Get Pogo'd On, Baby | ++ A2 is Objectively Better Than 2B | + Live From The Loser's Bracket | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Kris, Will and Lucas do our part for Super Earth! We also talk about Dragon Quest X Offline, Tekken 8, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and a smattering of other topics. Oh, and Helldivers 2. Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Helldivers 2 - 1:18 | Playing Games As A Critic After Reviewing - 18:51 | Layoffs and Emulation Scene Turmoil - 23:29 | Dragon Quest X Offline - 26:25 | MMOs Old And New - 35:45 | Gaming Friend Groups and the Xbox Live Experience - 38:33 | Tekken 8 - 41:52 | Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth (and Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise) - 48:42 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): I Was in Chair Two Once, Now They've Got Me Over Here | + We Took Operation Super Earth to Eliminate the Palworld Menace | +++ The Best Way We Can Defeat the Bugs is a STRONG ECONOMY | Bullets Cannot Go Through Cover Provided it is Large and Impenetrable | How Bout A Nice Cup of Liber-Tea| +++ Sweet Liberty! My Arm! | I'm Just Chuckling Because Now I'm a Torso Wearing a Cape | +Kill the Bugs and Take Their Oil | +++ I'm Taking Off My Critic Hat and Putting on my Dunce Hat | + I'm Hoping to Fight the Legally Distinct Protoss in my Legally Distinct Mech | + The Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves | It's on the Internet, the Internet Doesn't Forget | Well You Went Too Far to the Right, Now Everything's Just Going to Murder You in 10 Seconds | ++ It'll Delevel Your Ass Without Hesitation | I Don't Know Why Anyone Played These Things! I Don't Know Why I Played These Things! | + Your Friends Were Weak, They Don't Deserve Diamond | + Some of us Are Surprised We Don't Get Beat Up For Our Lunch Money | + Do You Know How To Korean Backdash? You Gonna Learn! | If You're an RPG Sicko, You're Either Living it Up or Incredibly Stressed Out | Yakuza Crossing | ++ Driving Out In The Desert in a Buggy and Super Monkey Ball Music is Blaring | + A Middling to Bad RGG Game is Better Than Several of Your Favourite Games | + Let's Get Out of Here, I've Got Some Helldivers to Play | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and special guest Thomas Wilde discuss a wide range of games and topics, including Spec Ops: the Line, The Last Of Us 3, using Crisper to method act, Jim Ryan leaving Sony, video game and fiction tropes, and much more! Enjoy. It's unhinged. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Using Crisper To Give Ourselves Mental Maladies For Acting - 2:25 | Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes & Tekken 8 - 7:05 | Jim Ryan Leaving Sony - 42:00 | Spec Ops: The Line Licensing - 46:00 | Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth - 58:30 | Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves - 1:25:05 | The Last Of Us 3 - 1:35:00 | Silent Hill - 1:46:20 | Video Game & Fiction Tropes - 2:00:00 | Persona 3 Reload - 2:27:20 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +So Off-Key, It Might As Well Have Been In Another Language | I Can't Do Bob Dylan Without Straying Into Joe Cocker, It's A Problem I've Grappled With For Most Of My Life | Co-Host & Self-Proclaimed Witch | Still Getting Used To The Vibe Around Here | That's Not A ‘Nice…' THAT'S A ‘Nice' | +Remember When We Were Young & Had A Number Of Undiagnosed Personality Disorders | +Going Through The DSM-IV Like It's An A La Carte Menu | Welcome To The Platformers, A Game About Podcasts & Perusing The DSM-IV | +Extreme Method Acting Via Gene Therapy | To Be Safe, Let's Say ‘Direct-To-Video Speed 5' | +Satiya Nutella | Satiya, Give Me Some Sugar, Honey | +Nuclear Gandhi | Karate Guy VS Taekwando Guy VS Occasional Bear | Velocipastor | I'm So Good At Wrestling, I'm Immune To Bullets | I Got Eye-Beamed For Asking Mr. Mishima Which Martial Arts Use Rocket Launchers | +The Furries In Arizona Must Have That NASA Cooling Tech | Put The Creepy Little Freaks In Top Hats & White Scarves | Brian's Limitless Six Drinks | How Do You Convince Someone To Play Like A Dragon? One Bite At A Time | +We've Got Blitzball At Home | Ichiban Wouldn't Have Let Heihachi Throw Kazuma Into A Volcano | Opening With Coke & Gin | Harada Is The ‘Syndrome' Of Fighting Games | Found In A Bathtub Full Of Ice | Murder Boner | +Nathan Drake, Solipsist | ++Honey Trap For The Damned | You're Already A Sicko, You Might As Well Be Another Type Of Sicko | Persona 3: ‘Oops All Dogs' Edition | Mitsuru Baby, What's Wrong? You've Shot Yourself In The Head Several Times Today | The Strange Ketamine-Fueled Ambitions Of A South African Nostalgic For Apartheid | +The Pony Factory Is Not As Nice As It Sounds | +Keep National Public Radio Alive Or We'll F$%^ing Kill You |  [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas discuss a wide range of games, laugh at predictive text Harry Potter, and much more! Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Void Terrarium 2 - 2:00 | 20 Minutes Till Dawn - 5:00 | Reigns: Three Kingdoms - 6:40 | Wizardry: The Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord - 25:30 | Why Do We Shy From Certain Aesthetics? - 40:00 | Harry Potter & The Portrait Of What Looked Like A Large Pile Of Ash - 57:35 | Terra Nil - 1:03:40 | Itch.io - 1:13:37 | Granblue Fantasy Relink - 1:17:29 | Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes - 1:43:30 | Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 2:11:19 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Taiyo-ken & Kaio-ken | Giving You The Ole' Solar Flare | +++Level 1 Intellect Dumbass | What Do You Think Graph Paper Was Invented For | +We Went At It For A Long Time | And You Can Eat My Entire A$%#%@^ | You Got Tinder In My RTS! | ++This Whole Time, Brian Was The Real Dynasty Warrior | +++The Man Who Decided He Wouldn't Try To Go After Being The King That One Time | +Harry Potter & The Portrait Of What Looked Like A Large Pile Of Ash | ++Ron's Ron Shirt Was As Bad As Ron Himself | Multiplayer Writing | +Theater Kids Without A Stage | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas discuss the big hubbub about the modern phenom that is Palworld, as well as deeper thoughts about Baldur's Gate III! Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Palworld - 6:34 | Baldur's Gate III - 55:45 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Baldur's Gatekeeping | We're Not Made Of Any Suspiciously Familiar Parts Or Stolen Assets | Not An Asset-Flipped Template Weeb | Bespoke Weeb | I Have Goku Water | Goku Blue Milk, Drunk Straight From The Teet Of The Ocean Walrus | +I Cannot, But Also I Will, I Can, & You Cannot Stop Me | +We Have Glistening Abs, & The Persian Army Is Right Offscreen | Stop Right There, Xerxes, I Have To Podcast | +An Eldritch Horror With Lots Of Nipples | +I'm Gonna Darkly Urge All Over The Place | Is It Sigyliam Or Sigyliam? | +When Your Internet Fails Its Dex Save | +I'm Gonna Darkly Urge Everyone Off A Cliff | Giving Gale A Hand | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, Will, Lucas, and special guest Cam Hawkins discuss the best games of 2023! Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Missed Connections - 6:00 | Brian Missed: Talos Principle 2, Jedi Survivor, Humanity, In Stars & Time, Cyberpunk - 7:31 | Kris Missed: Alan Wake 2, Talos 2, Jedi Survivor, Goodbye Volcano High, FF16, AC6 - 22:00 | Will Missed: Super Mario Wonder, FF16, Hi-Fi Rush, Baldur's Gate 3 - 28:35 | Lucas Missed: Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society, Long Gone Days, Spider-Man 2, Detective Pikachu Returns, Mon-Yu - 30:48 | Cam Missed: Everything that Lucas except Spider-Man 2, Atelier Ryza 3, Atelier Marie Remake, AC 6, DQ: Infinity Strash, In Stars & Time, Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, Star Ocean SSR - 43:00 | Brian Honorable Mentions: Alan Wake 2, Wildfrost, Granblue Rising, Goodbye Volcano High, Season: A Letter to the Future, Sea of Stars, Slay the Princess, Venba - 51:00 | Kris Honorable Mentions: Baldur's Gate 3, Diablo 4, Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, Against the Storm, Rogue Trader, Dredge, Street Fighter 6, Granblue, Hi-Fi RUSH - 1:28:22 | Will Honorable Mentions: Diablo 4, SF6, Cocoon, Hi-Fi Rush, Zelda: TotK, Talos 2 - 1:49:55| Lucas Honorable Mentions: Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist of the End and the Secret Key, Ebenezer and the Invisible World, Sonic Dream Team, Robocop Rogue City, Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, Demon Lord Reincarnation - 2:19:34 | Cam Honorable Mentions: Honkai Star Rail, Dead Cells Return to Castlevania, Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, Sea of Stars, Octopath II, FFXVI - 2:49:15 | Brian Heart Pick: Baldur's Gate 3 - 3:21:00 | Kris Heart Pick: Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood - 3:30:00 | Lucas Heart Pick: Void Terrarium 2 - 3:33:00 | Will Heart Pick: Alan Wake 2 - 3:46:46 | Cam Heart Pick: The Legend of Heroes Trails Into Reverie - 3:51:35 | Brian Critic Pick: The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood - 3:59:38 | Kris Critic Pick: Slay The Princess - 4:02:30 | Will Critic Pick: Armored Core 6 - 4:05:10 | Lucas Critic Pick: Street Fighter 6 - 4:09:46 | Cam Critic Pick: Baldur's Gate 3 - 4:14:51 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): ++Begun The Waifu Wars Have | +Heal On X | +Square Enix's Strongest Soldier: Donald J. Duck | Talos Principle Sr. | ++Ridiculously Over-The-Top Extra-ness | ++Beating You Up With The Nostalgia Bat | ++The Ghost Of Christmas Beatdowns | ++Grinding Monsters Until You Wanna Throw Up | +We Like Turn-Based Combat Because We Have Taste | +My Gut Started Tingling | +The Legend Of Heroes: The ‘One Piece' Of Video Games | Detective Pikachu: The Pinkerton | +Clutch Makoto | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about Baldur's Gate III, the Analogue Pocket, explore fun in a new segment, and wait until they can play more Granblue! Enjoy. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising - 2:55 | Analogue Pocket - 17:15 | Special Segment: Game Boy ‘Hot Or Not' - 41:00 | Retro Games & More - 1:15:00 | Baldur's Gate III - 1:24:30 | Alan Wake - 1:48:00 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): Arbiter Of The Skies | Call Me Out For My Persona Partner Predilections | +Zetta BEEEEEEEEEEAM! | +++This Episode Was Late Because We Played 3 Hours Of Granblue | ++On A Scale Of 1 To Karlach, It's Shadowheart | Power Rangers? No, We Get Our Power From Jesus | Legacy Of Rhythm TenGoku 2 | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Will talk about lots of games, including Baldur's Gate III, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, Cocoon, Alan Wake II, and a lot more. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Armored Core 6 - 6:46 | 20 Minutes To Dawn Impressions - 7:45 | Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising Impressions - 11:00 | Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader - 22:30 | Baldur's Gate III - 26:30 | Analogue Pocket Reveal - 26:43 | Monty Python & The Holy Grail Sing-A-Long - 44:57 | Alan Wake II Final Review - 59:30 | Cocoon Final Review - 1:07:30 | Analogue Pocket - 1:15:07 | Persona 5 Tactica - 1:35:30 | Warframe - 1:38:00 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): +Bitches Get Stitches & Stitches Get Bitches | 2024 Model Kris Cornelisse | 1989 Model Will Borger | ++Proudly Refusing To Improve Since 1989 | You'll Find It's Not An Improvement So Much As The Cost Has Gone Up, Very Little Has Changed & Corners Have Been Cut | +I've Been Devil Triggered | I Just Want To Hold Johnny Yong Bosch In My Arms | +$$60 Billion Armored Core | ++On Second Thought, Let Us Not Go To Baldur's Gate. ‘Tis A Silly Place | When Danger Reared His Ugly Head, He Bravely Turned His Tail & Fled | How Do I Get Out? There Is No Out, There Is Only ‘In' | No Take, Only Throw | ++Team Karlach AND Bust | Help, Karlach! Now It Burns When I Pee | +I'm Happy I Was Proven Right, But Sad About HOW I Was | Dungeon Siege Appreciators | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Lucas talk about lots of games, and go on a (maybe) record number of tangents. I'd say ‘enjoy,' but I think you would have a harder time not enjoying this buckwild episode. TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Fortnite - 0:00 | Vampire Survivors ‘Emergency Meeting' DLC - 10:35 | Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora - 19:44 | Doing Better With Storytelling - 35:00 (ish) | Death By A Thousand Cuts In Game Design - 38:00 (ish) | Press Deciding To Cover Games (Or Not) - 40:00 | Baldur's Gate III, Game Of The Year, Jedi Survivor Block - 48:00 (ish) | Dragon Quest Monsters - 1:08:00 | Persona 5 Tactica - 1:12:20 | Alan Wake Remastered Full Thoughts - 1:21:42 | Alan Wake 2 Early Impressions - 1:31:46 | Diablo IV Season 2 - 1:46:48 | Limited Run Collecting - 1:50:00 | Metroid, Mega Man, Castlevania, Capcom, & Konami - 1:59:00 | Our Pitch For A Ridiculous Mega Man AAA Game - 2:13:30 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): A Piece Of S!@# Who Bought V-Bucks | Trying To Obtain Unobtainium | Playing Pandoran Jai Alai | ++The Story Of Indigenous People By Way Of The Smurfs | +Democracy Or Else | +The Duality Of Man: MLK Jr. In Fortnite & ‘Somehow, Palpatine Has Returned' In Fortnite | Call An Ambulance… But Not For Me | Ballin' Cell, He Is Truly Perfect | +You Can't Be Perfect (Cell) If You Don't Dunk On The Kids | It Is What It Is, & What It Is Is Glorious | +Somehow Palpatine Has Been Referenced | ++Somehow Ovaltine Has Returned | ++Skooma Ovaltine, King Of The Smurfs | ++Double D's Degen December | +++Post-Nut Clarity Is Keeping Me From Beating BG3 | If You Are Gonna Pull GOTY Out Of Your A##, You Might Wanna Stand Up | ++Nintendo Canceled Christmas | Nintendo Is Not Playing Second Fiddle To Anyone | ++I've Got Boxes Of Pepe | A Big Ole' Sick Freak, A Cool Pervert | ++Robo-Ky Fans Are A Monolith, & They Are All Degenerates | ++You Can Tell Zero Is Serious, Because He's Pink | +++Mega Man, Stoically Carrying The Body Of His Wife Through The Woods | +++Tony Hawk, Raised From Death To Be Mega Man, Doing Robot Kickflips | +Thank You Listeners… Viewers… Lovers? | ++Can Love Bloom In Twitch Chat? | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

In this episode, Brian, Kris, and Will talk about lots of games, including The Game Awards. Enjoy! TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS: Slay The Princess Final Review - 0:00 | The Game Awards & Tekken 8 - 15:30 | Monster Hunter: Now Event & Season - 42:44 | Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader - 45:00 | Venba - 46:04 | Alan Wake II - 55:25 | Heroes of the Storm - 1:08:00 | POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE): I Am The Long Quiet, I Am The Shifting Mound | A Full-Throated Endorsement | Just A Smackerel | It Writes Itself Florida Man: The Game | It's Not In My Nature To Be Mysterious, But I Can't Talk About It & I Can't Talk About Why | That Price? In Front Of My Salad? | [The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]