Leading game industry professionals and Insert Credit Show regulars Mathew Kumar and Ash Parrish rejoin the panel for Mario voice cast announcements, Bayon3tta, and esports.


Questions this week:

From Brandon Sheffield: What games have been helped or hindered by having a tertiary gameplay system? (3:00)
Was the Mario movie voice cast announcement really that bad? (09:17)
In a side scrolling game, how large should the player character be? (15:13)
Where does Bayonetta go from here? (20:22)
What is the greatest unsolvable problem in game design? (24:45)
Dirtbag Tiger Tiger asks three questions and for some reason Jaffe allows it (29:45)
How do you report on mods and fan projects, knowing that more attention might get them shut down? (35:02)
What’s going on in the Overwatch League lately? (39:10)
How concerned should we be about video game censorship in China? (48:34)
For real though, what is the Mamma Mia! of video games? (54:49)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Mash-up Merch (59:25)


Wait a minute, were you really not gonna discuss this episode in the forums?!


A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Hey, Bayonetta, what is the main ingredient of guacamole??

Dungeon Explorer

Save Ribbons

Amnesia series

Fable

Mario casting news

Chris Pratt

Charles Martinet reading paragraphs as Mario

Nolan North

Dana Carvey

Martin Short

Only Murderers in the Building

Giancarlo Esposito

Bob Hoskins

John Leguizamo

The Lego Movie (2014)

Paulie Walnuts

Final Fight series

God Hand

Super Mario 3D World

Hollow Knight

Bayonetta

Fly Me To The Moon cover

Moon River cover

That’s Amore

Blue Moon

Hideki Kamiya

Bizarro

New World

Ultima Online

Emotion Engine

Dynasty Warriors series

Hyrule Warriors

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk

Persona 5 Strikers

Final Fantasy XV ramen ad

Ronald Reagan

SAGE

i’m not gonna link you to Zone animations, sorry

The Shanghai Dragons

Geguri

Ted Lasso

China limits online gaming for children to 3 hours per week

Chinese Overwatch teams boycott South Korean player

Genshin Impact censorship

John Cena apologizes for calling Taiwan a country

Devotion

Mamma Mia! (2008)

ABBA

ABBA Virtual London concert

Sonic CD

Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Sonic Mania

Street Fighter The Movie The Video Game

Kylie Minogue

Recommendations:


Mathew: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Commission Reports, Native-Land.ca


Brandon: Shuumi Land Tax, Mntu by Ushangvagush


Ash: Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 11th, Sable


Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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