2020's Best Game Music, Cyberpunk 2077 Reactions
The MinnMax Show
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🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 130 minutes
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On this episode of The MinnMax Show podcast, Ben Hanson and Kyle Hilliard are joined by music extraordinaire Emily Reese (from Level with Emily) to share our top 3 music tracks from video games in 2020. We talk about Hades, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and more along with great submissions from the community. Then Ana Diaz and Jeff Marchiafava join us to answer community questions and talk about the early reviews for Cyberpunk 2077 from CD Projekt RED and the reaction towards those reviews. You can submit a question for us to answer on the show by supporting MinnMax on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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00:00:00 - Intro/CrossFade plug
00:05:20 - The Deepest Dive on Cyberpunk 2077
00:07:39 - Zombie Army 4 Dead War
00:10:25 - Spiritfarer
00:13:07 - Dreams
00:15:45 - The Pathless
00:18:26 - Ghost of Tsushima
00:22:28 - Ikenfell
00:24:51 - Hades
00:29:42 - Signs of the Sojourner
00:33:57 - Final Fantasy VII Remake
00:40:27 - Kunai
00:41:48 - Sackboy: A Big Adventure
00:43:00 - The Darwin Project
00:45:11 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps
00:47:16 - Immortals Fenyx Rising
00:48:35 - Microsoft Flight Simulator
00:50:08 - Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
00:51:46 - Risk of Rain 2
00:52:51 - Final Fantasy VII Remake
00:54:09 - Astro's Playroom
00:55:51 - Paradise Killer
00:57:05 - Paper Mario: The Origami King
00:58:02 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
01:00:30 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters
01:06:08 - Thanking iam8bit
01:07:31 - Community questions
02:02:12 - Get A Load Of This
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Min-Mack show is brought to you by our standalone music podcast, Cross-Fade, which is hosted by music super-fand |
| 0:06.4 | Matt Helgison, who's the former host of the Gameformer show. Each episode he has a special guest on, people like Alex Navarro from Giant Bomb, Jeff Green, Emily Reese, |
| 0:15.0 | Mike Drucker, the cohorts have been on and they reviewed their favorite album and a new |
| 0:18.6 | album picked by Helgison. There have been some great discussions on David Bowie, |
| 0:22.4 | Metallica, James Brown, Pink Floyd, |
| 0:24.3 | Blink-82, Van Halen, the Hamilton soundtrack, the Tony Hawk soundtracks, |
| 0:28.8 | CW McCall's classic song Convoy for some reason. |
| 0:32.2 | And choppers fill the skies. |
| 0:34.4 | Whoa. |
| 0:35.4 | He's literally talking about like military intervention |
| 0:37.9 | to break up their convoy. |
| 0:39.0 | But they can't break up the convoy. |
| 0:40.4 | That's what we're talking about. |
| 0:41.0 | They can't break up the convoy. |
| 0:42.0 | When we're united as a convoy, the man can't shut us down. |
| 0:45.0 | On a recent episode, John Drake, formerly from Harmonics and Playstation, was on the |
| 0:49.3 | podcast and told the inside story about one of my favorite games of all the time, Beatles Rock Band. |
| 0:53.6 | But we got to go on stage and play in front of the crowd at the E3 press conference for Microsoft |
| 0:58.0 | and we came off stage and Sir Paul McCartney just dead panned 98%, really in front of us. |
| 1:05.2 | So subscribe to CrossFade on your favorite podcast app |
| 1:08.0 | and let us know what you think and leave a review. And the Hello everybody and welcome to the Minniex show a place about games friends are getting better. I'm Ben Hanson joined by Kyle Hilliard. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello, how's it going? Really, really well and we have a very special guest, reigning music champion, I don't know how to phrase this Emily Reese |
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