Hey Podtimists,

This week Jared asks an innocent question and gets dragged into Monster Hunter while TK is playing a new version of Persona 5 Royal.

We also took a deeper look into the GBA game, Gekido Advance. This was suggested to us by The Worst ROM Set. Thank you for your suggestion!

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Games mentioned:

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Noita

Persona 5 Royal: Rose & Violet

Gekido Advance

This week we've held our ghouls close, rescued a yellow hat, and had dental surgery just for you!

Games Mentioned:

• Ghost & Found
• Ghoul Digger
• I Just Want My Cat Back
• Ghoulish Farming
• Along an Extremity
• Keep Your Ghouls
• Hold Your Ghouls Close
• Connect the Dots
• Ten Metre Tide
• Loco Motive
• Half Minute Hero

Here's the Jam Submissions!

Keep putting pressure on payment processors!

Check out Toxic Yuri games! WIlla Rowe has some recommendations!

Check out Wavelengths 2.0

Check out In Sequence!

Why don’t you come to the podcastarium?

The beautiful sound of eternity that will never fade, no matter what.

All the bits in the sky are waiting for you.

This week we're joined by Rinoa to talk about where visual novels came from, which ones are good for starters, annd... which one can do a kickflip? It's a ride.

Games Mentioned:

Visual Novel History:

* Portopia

* Kamaitachi No Yoru (PSX recommend, Banshee's last cry on iOS no longer supported)

* Yu-No A Girl who chants love at the bound of this world (R18 originally but the new releases are all ages)

* Shizuku (R18)

* Kannon (R18, steam release all ages)

* Tsukihime (R18, remake all ages)

* Ace Attorney

* Nine Hours Nine Doors Nine Persons (Zero Escape)

* Hatoful Boyfriend

* Date Everything!

* Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos

* Clannad

* Zero Escape

* Loopers (other game by Key)

Other games mentioned:

* Monkey Island

* The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

* Kenka Bancho Otome

* Pizza Game

* Love Sushi Rangers

* Raging Loop

* Steins Gate Elite

* Return to Shironagasu Island

Recommendations:

* Rinoa: Crazy Quilt Solitaire

* Emily: The Toxic Yuri Game Jam

* Jared: Pokemon Sunken Sapphire

* TK: Koi Koi, Hanafuda Koi Koi Dojo

This week we're talking to some Game Jammers about their experiences making games for The Worst Game Jam 3.

Due to the current situation with payment processors exerting illegal limitations of free speech on platforms such as Itch.io and Steam, we are encouraging you to call and email Visa and Mastercard to tell them what a harmful move this is.

If you're unfamiliar with the situation, Robin from Girl Mode has written a piece about the current situation with itch.io. When this was happening to Steam, she wrote a piece about that too.

yellat.money is a great resource for telling payment processors that this is a terrible idea and is very harmful. There's also an ACLU petition. If you have a 401(k) or other investment account, you have a pretty direct method to lodge complaints.

One of the best things you can do to take back control of content and ensure safe spaces continue to exist online is to build your own website. Here are some resources from Emily. TK also wants you to make a website. Static Site Generators are fun, easy, and portable. You can host for free and take your site with you if you want to change platforms because you own all your own data.

Recommendations:

Amet: Final V3 on YouTube

Vinny: Read books

Paul: Pattyproof on YouTube, Right Now with John Goblikon, and Over the Garden Wall.

TK: Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers

Emily: Participate in and create community events

A quick update about this week's episode

This week we're recording our entry in The Worst Game Jam 3 with special guest Rob K!

Games Mentioned:

• Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Recommendations:

• Rob: Nature Valley Wafer Bars
• Emily: Physical media, especially comics
• Jared: Ask for Fire Emblem advice in Discord
• TK: Fancy sparkling lemonades, like Fever Tree's Sicilian lemonade or Sanpelegrino's Limonata

This week we are opening the mailbag to see what's in there. Video games? Without a doubt. Aspirations? Quite possibly. Beans? Uh, sure I guess?

Games Mentioned

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Dark Cloud 2
• Animal Crossing: Wild World
• Dragon Quest
• Dragon Ruins II (Art by とり夫 on Pixiv)
• Soul Hackers 2 (Silence Mimi in Dungeons mod)

Today we're talking with Zeno about the Spring and Summer anime seasons!

CW: Brief discussion of a robot having the ability to commit suicide (During Apocalypse Hotel Spoilers)

Anime Discussed

• Apocalypse Hotel
• A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
• Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
• Maebashi Witches
• City the Animation
• DanDaDan Season 2
• The Summer Hikaru Died
• There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover Unless...
• Introduction to Mineralogy: Ruri Rocks!
• Let's Go Karaoke!

Games Mentioned

• Mushroom Musume
• Soul Hackers 2

Recommendations:

• Zeno: Hakumei & Mikochi
• Emily: Noble comics circle (noblecomix on Twitter)
• TK: Yokohama Shopping Trip Log

Special thanks to Amet for our episode art this week!