Welcome back to Kotaku Split Screen, the only podcast that hasn't yet been monetized into a series of loot boxes.

It's June 27, 2019, and we tried and failed to do a speed run of this episode, although we do still

discuss some cool runs from summer games done quick. I'm finally playing Outer Wilds, and Jason

beat it, so he has some helpful tips for me. We talk about Metroidvania's, and then we get

to the news, which runs the gamut from the unnecessary controversy of Tifa's boobs to the rise

of autochests and working conditions at Triarch.

We close it out with off-topic talk about Evangelion and so much more.

Let's get to it. Welcome back to another episode of Kotaku Split Screen.

I am Maddie Myers, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host Kirk Hamilton.

Hi, Kirk.

Hello, Maddie.

It's so nice to see you.

It's nice to see you, too.

And it's also nice to have my other co-host,

Jason Schreier. What's up, Jason? Hello, hello, hello. We've got to go fast because I've been watching

Summer Games done quick all week and I'm just feeling really speedy. Mm-hmm. It's going to be a speed run

episode. I feel like we can we can do better than last week's like three and a

half hour episode. I think we can probably go a little faster this week. Yeah, yeah, let's speed run this

one. Let's try to glitch our way out of the borders of this episode of Kitaku's split screen.

Yeah, have you guys been watching by the way, Summer Games on Quick? Always one of my favorite things

every single year. I haven't been. I'd like to check out some of the runs later today, but I just haven't had the

time to check them out. I know you've seen some of them though, Jason. Yeah, there have been some good

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