Balatro Review And Why Unicorn Overlord's Battle System Rules | GI Show (Feat. Eric Van Allen)
The Game Informer Show
Game Informer
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, returning guest Eric Van Allen (Destructoid, Axe of the Blood God) joins us to discuss our Balatro review, spoiler-free thoughts about the length of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the early hours of Penny's Big Breakaway, and finally, how the combat system in Vanillaware's Unicorn Overlord mimics Final Fantasy XII's Gambits (that's a very good thing).
Lastly, we want to highlight our former colleague and close friend, Blake Hester, who was affected by a corporate restructuring from our parent company this week. Blake's original reporting and responsibility as our working features editor have transformed Game Informer over the last three-and-a-half years into an outlet known for thoughtful reporting on games and the people making them. Please go support Blake and follow his work right here.
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The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join host Alex Van Aken every Thursday to chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The Game Informer Show – Podcast Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:04 - Blake Hester Was Laid Off From Game Informer
00:11:23 - Balatro Review
00:27:50 - Unicorn Overlord Demo
00:44:07 - Penny's Big Breakaway
01:03:40 - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
01:18:32 - Housekeeping
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, What is going on everybody? Welcome to the Game Informer show a weekly podcast covering the video game industry |
| 0:26.8 | Join it's every Thursday for discussion about the latest gaming news reviews and exclusive reveals along with the game and former staff and special guests from around the industry. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken. Today I'm joined by Kyle Hilliard. How you doing Kyle? |
| 0:41.5 | Hello, I'm doing okay. |
| 0:43.8 | We had kind of a rough week at Game Informer, |
| 0:45.6 | which we'll get in too soon, |
| 0:46.9 | but you know, I feel all right. |
| 0:49.4 | I ate some starburst jelly beans. |
| 0:52.1 | Okay, that's seasonal candy to help me. The cure all. |
| 0:55.0 | The cure. Yeah. We're also joined by Marcus Stewart. How you doing, Marcus? |
| 0:59.3 | Hey, I'm okay. Happy Final Fantasy 7 rebirth day. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, you know. |
| 1:05.0 | And then rounding us out, a special and returning guest, |
| 1:09.0 | Destructoids, Erica Van Allen, you might know him from Acts of the Blood God or Normandy FM. |
| 1:17.2 | Welcome back to the show, Eric. |
| 1:19.7 | Happy rebirth here on Game, is my rebirth on the game informer show really excited about yeah |
| 1:25.3 | Is that like a baptism kind of thing little bit it's like a like a confirmation is that what we're doing? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah. Let's like dive into our religious background just from yeah we should talk we should totally do that sounds great is that is bad good podcasting the third final fantasy game is that what's going to be called |
| 1:42.1 | rebaptismBaptism. |
| 1:44.0 | Re-Baptism. |
| 1:45.0 | I was going to say Raptism, which would be a sick rap album name actually. |
| 1:49.0 | Raptism. |
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