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Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

#390 | But Without Me, You're Only You

Sacred Symbols: A PlayStation Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Games, Leisure, Video Games, Hobbies

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 205 minutes

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Summary

Let's be honest: This whole Light of Motiram thing was shady from the get-go. A game that blatantly rips off Guerrilla's Horizon franchise, created by the publisher-and-developer combo that was later revealed to have unsuccessfully pitched Sony a Horizon spin-off beforehand? They call that 'dead to rights.' And now it's official, because Sony's lawsuit against Tencent over this facsimile has been dropped with prejudice, and the game has been delisted from Steam. That's a win for PlayStation, and an even bigger win for creativity in the AAA space. We discuss. Plus: Sucker Punch co-founder, long-time producer, and studio lead Brian Fleming is officially retiring from the team after 28 years, Bungie's Marathon is slated to come to PS5 in March, Hollow Knight: Silksong is getting a free nautical expansion in '26, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! Should we expect devs to lean more deeply into attractive characters? Do we think "made using AI" warnings will appear on games at some point in the near future? Who's to blame for Highguard's tepid response at The Game Awards? Is it strange if a wheelchair-bound listener wants to proudly wear a Stand Down shirt? Please keep in mind that our timestamps are approximate, and will often be slightly off due to dynamic ad placement. 0:00:00 - Intro0:37:46 - A nice note from William0:43:47 - Andrew and Steven0:52:25 - Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble is out in some European countries0:53:55 - Light of Motiram case dropped1:02:24 - Sucker Punch's co-founder is leaving1:15:19 - Marathon gets a release month1:28:21 - Silksong sells 7 million with an expansion on the way1:31:05 - Ubisoft acquires an Amazon team1:32:32 - Mega Man Star Force Legacy collection announced1:35:14 - US sales data1:47:35 - What We’re Playing (Terminator 2D: NO FATE, Dying Light: The Beast, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, The Outer Worlds 2, Destiny 2: Renegades (The Star Wars Expansion), Skate Story, Tomba 2, Metroid Prime 4)2:11:17 - Featuring "attractive female characters"2:27:14 - Game studios and AI2:45:51 - Will the DRAM shortage effect consoles?2:53:46 - One handed gaming2:57:39 - Highguard3:08:25 - Games that will never get revived Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Shopify.com.ukau.ukes slash Spotify. Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Sacred Symbols, a PlayStation podcast. This is episode

0:51.0

number 390, which we've recorded after 391 and 392. Isn't that interesting?

0:56.9

My name is Colin Moriarty. I'm joined as always by my son Chris Raygon, Chris. Good day to you, my friend.

1:01.5

How are you? Good, good. You know, it's another day. Early, not much has happened. You know,

1:10.4

had myself some breakfast. Oh. And some coffee. Nothing crazy. Normal day. What'd you have for breakfast? Just eggs and bacon. I was simple today. You made it yourself. Yeah. Yeah. But when I make food for myself, I kind of like, it's like bare minimum. You know, like, I don't even like, like, I thought it's like, should I put salt on my eggs?

1:30.2

It's like maybe.

1:30.8

But like, whatever.

2:18.5

Yeah, it's a lot. It's just sustenance, you know. Yeah, right, right. Not a meal, really. I love I mean it's a little bit annoying but I love cooking bacon at home because I feel like it always comes out the best when you, when you just put it in the in the pan, you let it get nice and crispy. I like the little like bubbles that, you know, like you don't talk about on that one side. It's like the fattier side. And so like it cooks, but you got a few of the softer bubbles and you eat those as well. Oh, yeah. I love bacon, dude. Yeah. God, bacon's so fucking good. It has no business being so good. Well, it's nice to see you today. I've been seeing you a lot this week. Yeah. It's a lot. Then we record that we, this week we recorded about, we did as much as we do for like snark tank on a weekly basis basis so it's like kind of like a similar cadence where like it's just like oh it's weird to have both of those going

2:23.0

simultaneously because i just see it i've seen all of you my yeah my entire week it's enough right

2:28.9

it's enough enough of this no no it's enough already doesn't Furman executive producer wearing his Mega Man legend shirt, perhaps trying to summon something into the summon circle. Maybe. In the future, as there are, there is rumors that there will be more than just Mega Man 12 in 2007 for the 30th anniversary. No, the 40th anniversary, fuck. Well. Well.

2:52.9

How are you doing, my friend?

2:53.4

Good to see you.

2:54.8

Very good.

2:57.8

I was thinking beforehand.

3:00.6

I was like, okay, this will be my third.

3:02.7

How are you doing today?

3:06.9

And I was like, well, between yesterday and today, I haven't left the house. I've been getting stuff ready for the break. I was like, well, between yesterday and today, I haven't left the house.

3:10.7

I've been getting stuff ready for the break.

3:13.6

I was like, what's the most interesting thing that's happened to me?

3:19.4

And really, it's that one of Holly's friends made her a homemade loaf of bread.

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