Galerians for the PlayStation is a flawed but interesting survival horror game, existing today primarily for people who are passionate about that era of the genre. Galerians: Ash is beloved by none. Picking up right at the end of the original game, Ash follows the continuing adventures of Rion through the world of Basically Akira, trying to stop synthetic humans from destroying the world. But they made it an action game and they shouldn't have done that.
Aug 01, 2022•34 min
The Academy thought they could sit out the Shattering by locking their doors, but they didn't take into account that their own inner rottenness would destroy them from within. We venture into the high halls of this monument to arrogance, venturing through the Church of the Cuckoo and the glintstone quarry before taking on the Red Wolf of Radagon. Next week, we will find Rennala herself and see what she's been up to in her imprisonment. Note: There are a couple of points toward the end of the epi...
Jul 31, 2022•5 min
Hey folks, thanks for bearing with us during the delay. We had some illness and some life stuff that just got in the way. But we're back, and hopefully back on schedule from this point forward. In this episode we cover the last five issues of Messiah Complex, wonder why Predator X exists, and speculate on the how mutants will be introduced into the MCU. Chapter 9: X-Men #206 Chapter 10: Uncanny X-Men #494 Chapter 11: X-Factor #27 Chapter 12: New X-Men #46 Chapter 13: X-Men #207 Reminder that you...
Jul 30, 2022•1 hr 27 min
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Overwhelm, Zombie Army 4, Stray, and much more! The Grind: Dennis: Overwhelm. Snowrunner. Kole: Trackmania Turbo. David: Destiny 2. Zombie Army 4. Ben: Stray. The Multiplayer: What animal deserves its own video game? The End Boss: The University of Toronto establishes a huge video game library. Stray mods bring real life (and fictional) cats into Stray. There’s an Elden Ring Name Generator. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake derailed....
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 27 min
Saving. When can you do it? When should you be able to do it? How does it change the rhythm of games? Also, man, what a fucking ripoff memory cards were. We also answer your questions, announce September's games, and A BRAND NEW SHOW ON THE NETWORK. Support Watch Out for Fireballs!
Jul 28, 2022•2 hr 7 min
Weddings are stressful enough without your spouse's terrible family immediately trying to kill you. That's the situation that Grace finds herself in when she marries into the obscenely rich Le Domas family, who made their fortune in publishing board games. Whenever someone marries in, the family has a ritual where they draw a card and play whatever game is on it. Unfortunately for Grace, she winds up drawing "Hide and Seek", which is the one card whose consequences involve death. This is an unus...
Jul 27, 2022•5 min
The Disney Afternoon cartoons delighted a whole generation. Every one except for TaleSpin, which was clearly the weakest link. It was in the unenviable position of having to go up against DuckTales and Darkwing Duck, so it never stood a chance. But it was popular enough to get a video game adaptation. A kinda good one, made by Capcom. We're not talking about that one. Instead, we're talking about the execrable Sega version, exemplified by its Game Gear port.
Jul 26, 2022•5 min
Jeremy returns to cover for Gary while he recovers from Covid, and we talk about this fun, Guild-focused episode where the Council takes on their final arches. It's a series of vignettes as they settle their old grudges, and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch's final arch happens to be Novia, a black widow who Rusty happens to be (foolishly) courting. Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, Gwen May for our theme song, and Brayton Cameron for being our announcer....
Jul 26, 2022•59 min
Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Did you know that DC published a comic to promote the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Of course you didn't! The six issue arc follows Adam Jensen on a little side mission that takes place in between chapters of the game. A new augmented terrorist is on the scene, and the series of attacks has something to do with his past on the Detroit SWAT team. So he enlists the help of basically Lara Croft? It's weird, kinda bad, and tonally all over the place. So, perfect for this show.
Jul 25, 2022•5 min
Will Hughes joins Kole once again to talk about the DS launch game "Feel the Magic: XY XX", which is best described as "horny Warioware". We end up talking about the game quite a bit, though Will does frequently bully Kole the whole time. There's nothing to be done about it. Special Guest: Will Hughes.
Jul 25, 2022•42 min
We have just a few more stops to make before we break into the Academy of Raya Lucaria. First we head to the Carian Study Hall, if only to talk about the ways it currently thwarts our advances. Then we talk about the bull-filled ruins of Uhl Palace before taking the elevator to Ainsel River Well. Here, we learn once again that the world of Elden Ring is bigger than we first thought, and gain some fleeting glimpses of the layers of civilizations long gone that make up the strata of the Lands Betw...
Jul 24, 2022•5 min
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Stray, Last Call BBS, 20 Minutes Till Dawn, and much more! The Grind: Kole: Stray. Ben: Stray. Last Call BBS. David: Elite: Dangerous. 20 Minutes Till Dawn Dennis: NEOVERSE. Trackmania. The Multiplayer: What game makes the most interesting use of a class system? The End Boss: Inscryption is coming to PS4 and PS5 on August 30. New Warhammer expansion’s map is real neat. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands player gets the rarest, most powerful randomly generated gun....
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 41 min
Jesse Faden has walked a rough road, one that leads up to the door of a secret government agency headquartered in a building that not everyone can see. It's the Federal Bureau of Control, they may have her brother held captive, and they are definitely overrun by a malignant interdimensional force. This feels like a culmination of a lot of what Remedy has been working toward, and they achieved it by working against their strengths. Instead of a cinematic, on-rails narrative, Control lives in the ...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr
This week, Jeremy joins Kole to talk about a very good episode of this television show, "The Unicorn in Captivity". Rusty manages to invent teleportation, which draws the attention of unsavory characters. Meanwhile, the Monarch reluctantly joins a heist crew led by Copy Cat. Jeremy will be back next week, and Gary will be returning from his Covid break the week after that! Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, Gwen May for our theme song, and Brayton Cameron for being our announcer....
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Gary went and caught Covid, so this week Kole is joined by the AV Club's Will Hughes to talk about Zoop, the shallow puzzle game that magazines in the 90s put a lot of effort into getting people to buy. And since Gary isn't here, we kind of go hog wild on talking about things that would otherwise send him into the stratosphere.
Jul 18, 2022•42 min
This week we head to northeastern Liurnia, to learn more about some of the elemental forces that stand athwart the Erdtree and its Golden Order. First we visit the Frenzied Village and its ominous tower to learn about Vyke's fall... Then we head to the Knifeprint Catacombs to uncover a little more information about the treachery that began the Shattering itself.
Jul 17, 2022•5 min
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Elite: Dangerous, Thumper, and much more! The Grind: Dennis: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Chorus. Ben: Before Your Eyes. Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Kole: The Quarry. Thumper. David: Elite: Dangerous. The Multiplayer: What art style would you like to see used more often in games? The End Boss: Studio Canal films being pulled from European PSN. Ubisoft tries to pull some nonsense with digital storefronts. Halo Infinite’s co-op c...
Jul 16, 2022•1 hr 53 min
It's impossible to talk about some games objectively. Castlevania 2 has a lot of problems but unbeatable atmosphere for the NES, and the best soundtrack in the series (fight me), makes that go down oh so smooth. Let's get to collectin' ribs! We'd also like to direct your attention to the Totally Trans Podcast Network which is an ongoing podcast about the search for the trans media canon. Support Watch Out for Fireballs!...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 8 min
This week we head back down to the other side of the Liurnian continent, venturing up a high road littered with wreckage from the civil war. We stop by a very noteworthy catacomb, check in with Hyetta, visit Jarburg, and take a history lesson from the game's biggest dork: Miriel the Turtle Pope.
Jul 10, 2022•5 min
In the end, it was a story about family. In the beginning, too. It was really all a story about family. Children of Morta was made as an attempt to marry a roguelike game structure to a fixed, detailed story... and it works. The Bergsons are a tight-knit family who live in the shadow of Mount Morta, and they are charged with being Guardians of all the land. When Corruption starts appearing, everyone in the clan pitches in, with most venturing down into the tunnels and town to stop the crisis. Th...
Jul 07, 2022•2 hr 1 min
The idea of millionaires who happen to be talented artists using their resources to make video games where they go on little adventures is extremely charming. That's our baseline approach to talking about Def Jam: Fight for NY, which is ABSOLUTELY not a bad game. Just not a game for us. But, growing up in the 90s, it was impossible to escape both hip hop and wrestling, even if you wanted to, so we have some stuff to talk about here.
Jul 06, 2022•5 min
A Level 1 villain has to start somewhere, and that's where the Big Villains program comes in. The Monarch steps up to take Augustus St. Cloud under his wing for his first arching, which is less an act of altruism and more another attempt to get under Rusty's skin. The result is a fun episode that's mostly jokes and doesn't really move anything forward, but we need those from time to time. Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, Gwen May for our theme song, and Brayton Cameron for bein...
Jul 05, 2022•56 min
Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 10 min
It's a classic Gary Butterfield pick: it's an advergame about snack food. But M&M's Kart Racing for the Wii also happens to be the least fun, and least functional, kart racer we've covered for the show. It also leads us to one of the more bizarre and sad wikis we've found for a property.
Jul 04, 2022•50 min
In this episode, we talk about the next four issues in the X-Men Messiah Complex crossover event: X-Men #205, Uncanny X-Men #493, X-Factor #26, New X-Men #45. Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be sure to check with your local li...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 17 min
This week we head to the western reaches of Liurnia of the Lakes, witnessing with our own eyes the atrocious acts committed against the Village of the Albinaurics. We then head up the western coast, learning what happened to Edgar, the warden of Castle Morne.
Jul 03, 2022•5 min
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Before Your Eyes, ElecHead, Monster Hunter: Rise, and much more! The Grind: Kole: ElecHead. Dennis: God of War (2018). Trackmania. David: Monster Hunter: Rise. Ben: Dorfromantik. Before Your Eyes. The Multiplayer: What’s your favorite endgame content? The End Boss: Persona games are coming to Switch. New Mario+Rabbids gets October 20 release date. Quebec language law puts local video game industry at risk. Steam Summer Sale is happening right now....
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 31 min
