150 premium Abject Suffering episodes is a reason for celebration. It was a total accident that we happened to end up covering Chakan: The Forever Man, a cult Genesis game about a man who is cursed to live forever, named Chakan. Chakan is based on an indie comic by a person who goes by the initialism RAK, and RAK has a webpage. We found the webpage. We were bowled over by what we found there. So much so that I just had to make a video version of this episode, which you can find in an unlisted Yo...
Oct 05, 2022•5 min
Kole and Jala wrap up their coverage on the main Phoenix Wright trilogy of games by talking about Trials and Tribulations. Story concerned with the pasts of the various characters, it also seeks to wrap up loose ends and give a big fanservice payday to anyone with affection for the cast.
Oct 05, 2022•2 hr 20 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.
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 7 min
You had to be around in the early '00s to know exactly how hard Razor scooters were being pushed on us. These were collapsable metal scooters meant for radical teens to ride to class. And they made a game about them, a not entirely terrible Tony Hawk clone. So we spend some time talking about the gimmick shoes that were foisted on us as kids.
Oct 03, 2022•42 min
With all of the Scarlet Rot in Caelid, it's easy to overlook the other forces at play in the region. Namely, the Black Flame, Deathroot, and other forces associated with the Destined Death. In this cleanup episode, we head to the Bestial Sanctum to learn about Gurranq the Bestial Clergyman, and then we head to the Divine Tower of Caelid where we find the Godskin cult tucked away in the basement. Next week we head to Redmane Castle to begin working to handle Starscourge Radahn himself....
Oct 02, 2022•5 min
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Dome Keeper, Trombone Champ, Timberborn, and much more! The Grind: Ben: Timberborn. Dome Keeper. Kole: Trombone Champ. Dennis: Deathloop. XCOM 2. David: Deathloop. The Multiplayer: What piece of DLC do you think was better than the base game? The End Boss: Metal: Hellsinger custom music mods look silly and fun. A fan has made Super Mario Bros. 5. 0G9-XN4-FNF Blizzard is making some baffling and hostile decisions with Overwatch 2....
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 51 min
We've narrowed down some of our distaste for certain popular games, especially from the past: they were made for kids. And kids' media can be sublime! But what makes a piece of kids' media, game or not, good or bad? What turns us off? How do they approach issues of ethics or morality? How much do they condescend? We also answer your questions and read your responses to September's games: BugSnax, Metal Gear Solid V, and Carrion. October's games are: Devotion Strangeland The Evil Within 2 Novembe...
Sep 29, 2022•2 hr 47 min
No one in the world needs to be told that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an important movie, but sometimes you need to be reminded that it's a good movie. A van full of teens is on a roadtrip into the vast empty stretches of Texas, and they find themselves wrapped up in the murderous affairs of a family of cannibals... and their mute hatchetman Leatherface. And you'll never guess what weapon he uses. It was a great deal of fun to look back at an undeniable classic and find that it holds up and i...
Sep 28, 2022•5 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.
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 5 min
People love incremental and idle games. Kole's ambivalent. Gary hates them. Somehow this turned into an extremely on-topic mini-WOFF! about the genre at large, with Cookie Clicker as the starting off point. Welcome to Hell!
Sep 26, 2022•37 min
Edit: There was a problem with the first version of this that is fixed now. If you hear overlapping audio at the start you can delete and re-download. I apologize for the error! - K This week we pick up on the road above Sellia, to the cliffs above to save the poor girl Millicent at the behest of the strange sage Gowry. Then, we proceed northward beyond the giant skull to Greyoll's Dragonbarrow, a slightly less-blighted portion of Caelid, which is now a sanctuary for the remannts of Dragonkind i...
Sep 25, 2022•5 min
Welcome to the introduction! In this episode we take an opportunity to introduce ourselves, the show, and how we plan to approach Breaking Bad with our commentary. We also describe our own histories with the show, and give a rundown of how Breaking Bad got picked up, along with an introduction to the main cast. It's an eventful episode, to be sure. New episodes release every other Saturday, so we will be back next time with the Pilot. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme so...
Sep 24, 2022•53 min
When a baby is on a girder, you KNOW Gary Butterfield is on the scene. This unreleased prototype of a Lemmings-like game where you play as an angel stopping a baby from crawling into calamity is actually not terrible, just bizarre. Also bizarre? The movie "Baby's Day Out" was popular enough in India to warrant three different adaptations in different languages... including one named, and we're not kidding "James Bond"....
Sep 23, 2022•5 min
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Rocksmith+, Fallout 76 Expeditions: The Pitt, Timberborn, and much more! The Grind: David: Fallout 76 Expeditions: The Pitt. Destiny 2. Kole: Steam Deck impressions. Vampire Survivors. Skinwalker Hunt. Rocksmith+. Dennis: XCOM 2. Opus Magnum. Ben: Fall Guys. Timberborn. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. The Multiplayer: Think of a favorite video game franchise. What is one change to that franchise that would make you drop it like a sack of ...
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 52 min
How far can an excellent premise carry a game? Looks like it's more than 2 hours but less than 5. Carrion has an unbeatable premise, a hall of fame premise, and aesthetics to back it up. Why on earth is it not more fun to play? Listen and find out!
Sep 22, 2022•50 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.
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Say what you will about stop motion animation, there's an undeniable degree of difficulty associated with it that makes it a little more impressive than CGI emulating the clay sculpture style. This is the core hubris of the "Wallace and Gromit " people hooking up with Dreamworks to make "Flushed Away", a story about a posh surface rat getting flushed down the toilet to fight a frog king. And then they made a game about it. And then we mostly talked about Jackass, and a bizarre YouTube channel ca...
Sep 19, 2022•38 min
Sellia is a town in Caelid that holds many secrets, sealed away behind an impenetrable puzzle that involves lighting three torches. A strange sage named Gowry acts as our guide, sending us to the Aeonian Swamp to recover a cosmic artifact before directing us to the heart of Selia to learn where these people came from, and why the Golden Order had turned a vicious eye toward them in the past.
Sep 18, 2022•5 min
On this episode, we cover: Power Pack #28, X-Factor #11, Uncanny X-Men #212, Daredevil #238. And boy, that Daredevil issue. Dubya Tee Eff. 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 library to see if they...
Sep 17, 2022•1 hr 36 min
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Immortality, Live a Live, Taiji, and much more! The Grind: Kole: Immortality. Live a Live. Dennis: God of War (2018). Death Stranding. Opus Magnum. Ben: The Planet Crafter. Taiji. David: Destiny 2. The Multiplayer: Free Play! The End Boss: PlayStation Stars look like NFTs even though they aren’t. Pacific Drive looks rad as hell. Nintendo shows details about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Against all odds they’re making a new Theatrhythm Final Fantasy game. T...
Sep 17, 2022•1 hr 55 min
Venom Snake still has some fights to fight, as we pick up Skull Face's trail in Afghanistan to experience the majority of what the Phantom Pain has to offer. As a genuine heads up, this episode might not be for you if you adore this game or Hideo Kojima's whole vibe. We clown on things while gushing about the play, which some people take us as completely hating the whole experience. If you will take that personally then please consider yourself forewarned. Thanks again to our executive producer ...
Sep 15, 2022•3 hr 10 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.
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Better late than never, right? Even if it's 21 years too late. 1986 saw the release of "An American Tail", a Don Bluth-animated film about a family of mice that fled Russia to head to America... 1986 being, of course, one of the last times that an optimistic story about immigration could be told in America. Then, in 2007, some weirdos decided to make a licensed game about it. One that even manages to make Monkey Ball mechanics un-fun!
Sep 12, 2022•45 min
This week we continue our journey along the Caelid Highway, down further into the wilds of the rot-blighted land. Starting at the Smouldering Wall, we venture into Fort Gael and the prison complex beneath it, before reaching the swamps and dragons of the southern reaches. Next week we will turn northward into Selia and the Aeonian Swamp, ground zero of Malenia's blossoming.
Sep 11, 2022•5 min
Thank you Jade! What do you do when there's a Kojima about? What do you do when a game has some of the best stealth action in video games, one of the most satisfying loops in video games, but punctuates it with some of the worst boss fights and clumsy exposition and plotting? It's a complicated game that gives us complicated feelings! Listen in if you want to hear us wrestle with Kojima's legacy, both as critics and as one current and one former fan. And if you want to support marginalized creat...
Sep 07, 2022•3 hr 6 min
This premium episode is about Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster, a PlayStation game that makes you realize that stunts are only cool when it's actual people doing them. A computer game character can, by definition, do anything its creator tells it to. But this middling beat-em-up provides a good springboard for us to talk about Gary's most recent thrift store find, an amateur comic from the '80s called "Crossed Swords".
Sep 07, 2022•5 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.
Sep 06, 2022•48 min
Nyah, see? Myah. That's mobster talk, because we're talking about a pair of ZX Spectrum games which concern themselves with various illegal dealings in 1919. The roaring teens! Establish protection rackets, run hooch, pinch nanners, flip gatorboys, if it's illegal you can do it all. As long as it fits within the "Lemonade Stand" format.
Sep 05, 2022•49 min
This week we begin our hunt for General Radahn, who continues to arrest the stars from his current home in the wastelands of Caelid. We know where to find him, but the trick is making our way to him across this blighted, rotted, poisoned land. Specifically, this episode covers everything along the Caelid Highway from north to south, until you reach the Smoldering Wall. There are several minidungeons to investigate in this densely packed desert.
Sep 04, 2022•5 min
Kole, Ben, and Dennis talk about Cursed to Golf, Second Extinction, The Planet Crafter, and much more! The Grind: Kole: Cursed to Golf. No One Lives Under the Lighthouse. Dennis: Second Extinction. Death Stranding. Ben: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The Planet Crafter. The Multiplayer: Add a character to a multiverse fighting game! The End Boss: Rocksmith+ is finally releasing on September 6. Disney is getting into TCGs with the horribly-named “Lorcana”. Sam Barlow’s new game “Immortality” is gett...
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 21 min
