Borderlands 4, Nintendo Direct Highlights, Silksong's Final Verdict

The MinnMax Show

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Leisure, Games, Video Games

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jeff Marchiafava, Jacob Geller, and Leo Vader along with special guest Brendon Bigley from Into The Aether and Wavelengths share early impressions of Borderlands 4 and how the action compares to the new roguelite FPS Void/Breaker. Then we run through our favorite moments from the Nintendo Direct on Friday, including the reveal of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, the Super Mario Galaxy movie, and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's release date. Then we return to Hollow Knight: Silksong to share our final thoughts on the game's scope and ambition... without spoiling key moments or fights. We also talk about the generous demo for Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter and the history of Falcom's incredibly long-running series. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:06:41 - Get a Steam code for Hauntii

00:07:31 - Borderlands 4

00:31:18 - Hello Fresh

00:33:22 - Void/Breaker

00:46:22 - Nintendo Direct Highlights

01:12:07 - Best Switch 2 Grip

01:17:13 - Hollow Knight: Silksong

01:40:02 - Sky the Scraper

01:45:27 - Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

01:53:54 - Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar

02:01:01 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

02:02:39 - Community questions

02:36:32 - Get A Load Of This

Leo’s GALOT - https://www.benq.com/en-us/knowledge-center/knowledge/ps-remote-play-steam-deck.html

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Interview:Electronic_Gaming_Monthly_May_3rd_2005_(Kondo)

Brendon's GALOT - https://www.ayaneo.com/article/890

Community GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/mariobrothblog.bsky.social/post/3lysratc6xc2g

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Min-Mags show,
0:07.0	A Placed About Games, Friends are Getting Better, I'm joined by Jeff Markiafava. Hello. Join me a very relaxed and chill, Leo Vader. Hi. Slightly sick as well, but he's comfy on the couch, so he's resting up. And Leo, whatever you do do don't say a word on this podcast because we
0:37.9	want you to heal buddy thanks ma'am you already blew it we're joined by jacob geler i'm just as relaxed
0:43.8	as leo very calm and special guest brendan bigley from into the ather and wavelengths
0:49.7	everybody thanks for having me it's an honor to be nominated now did you just rummage through your
0:55.4	closet and see is there anything minnesota related that i can wear on this yeah famously you're
1:00.4	always supposed to wear the band's t-shirt to their concert right that was that's what i always
1:04.0	hear yes yes decided to do i actually i found this i'm not kidding for three dollars at a thrift
1:08.6	store in japan while i was on my honeymoon and I bought it and I was like, one day, maybe, if I'm ever on MinMax, I will wear this. Wow. I've been holding on to it. I've been waiting. Caring all the way from Japan, that's really an honor, man. I'm quite honored. Yeah, I've mentioned into the Aether on a couple episodes of the podcast before, but I don't know what, like, I think when you did your big Dreamcast episode at a couple people, be like, hey, there's this crazy long Dreamcast podcast that seems up your alley, Ben. I was like, yeah, yeah, I'll get to it. get to it. And it's really like I feel like in the last year where it's like, all right, I can't ignore people screaming but into the ather and sort of listening to it and fell in love,
1:45.1	um, not with you to it and fell in love.
1:45.2	Not with YouTube in a parissocial kind of weird way, but that podcast is so good.
1:49.5	And if I just make Kiss Your But you can just sit back and be as chill as Leo if you want.
1:53.4	But how many gaming podcasts are just like two guys talking about video games?
1:59.6	And that is what Into the Ather is.
2:02.0	But imagine how good it would have to be
2:03.8	just to like get a bigger and bigger audience.
2:07.9	Like that is the,
2:08.7	is that a backhanded compliment to say like that is,
2:11.3	that is the quality.
2:12.2	That is how well-spoken you two are
2:13.5	is that the enthusiasm,
2:14.7	the passion flows through to a point that
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