Kinda Funny Games host and producer Blessing Adeoye Jr. joins the panel to cover review scores for video games, Frank’s answer for good adventure game design, and the Capcom Five. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Blessing Adeoye Jr. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.


Questions this week:

What do people expect from a review of a new game? (06:29)
Who have been the best level designers since Doom? (17:23)
How can a difficult video game puzzle keep players from losing patience and resolve to solve it? (25:06)
Let’s all record some all purpose video game sample dialogue. (33:13)
Insert Credit Ad Break: 100 Gold (37:36)
Lloyd Irving asks: Rank the Capcom Five (38:50)
Koei Tecmo wants you to scout the right IP for their next Musou game. Who do you approach? (46:46)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Reccing Crew - Star Wars characters (54:42)


Recommendations and Outro (01:07:06)


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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Chun-Li

The Pest (1997)

K’

Terry Bogard

Garou: Mark of the Wolves

Asuka 120% series

Blue Mary

Ramlethal Valentine

Eddy Gordo

Scorpion

Takeda Takahashi

Fight Night Round 3

PS5 controller could track your sweat and heart rate

The Last of Us: Part I

Redfall

Star Wars: Jedi - Survivor

Dead Rising

Cyberpunk 2077

Pokémon Scarlet

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Fallout: New Vegas

GamePro Magazine

Super Mario series

Doom

Gears of War series

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

Dishonored

Prey

Deathloop

Hitman series

Hirokazu Yasuhara

Sonic the Hedgehog series

Uncharted series

Sonic R

Jak X: Combat Racing

Ghostwire: Tokyo

Silent Hill series

Resident Evil series

Nintendo patents in-game hint system

Digital Pictures

Until Dawn

The Quarry

Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order

Horizon II: Forbidden West - Burning Shores

Call of Duty series

Audio Atrocities

Vincent Price

Bloody Wolf

Capcom Five

P.N.03

Viewtiful Joe

Dead Phoenix

Resident Evil 4

Killer7

The Silver Case

Flower Sun and Rain

Shenmue series

Huge Earthbound Fan Excited to Play It for First Time

Gundam

God Hand

Ace Attorney / Gyakuten Saiban series

Koei’s Warriors / Musō series

Hyrule Warriors

Funko Pop

Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk

Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Seimasenki no Sho

Super Smash Brothers series

Fortnite: Battle Royale

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Bloodborne

Nioh

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

Ninja Gaiden series

Kingdom Hearts series

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT

Mortal Kombat series

Warriors All-Stars

Earth Defense Force series

Recommendations:


Blessing: Check out The Blessing Show on Kinda Funny Games and the Phil Spencer interview from Kinda Funny


Brandon: Demonschool public demo, Koudelka


Tim: Play the Shadow Hearts series and Sōkaigi if you want to play a couple other weirder lesser talked about or looked at video games that are all somewhat related to Koudelka, have a unionized workplace if you have the option


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