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Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Episode 550: Mixtape, Star Fox Direct, Stranger Than Heaven Presentation

Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel

Ben Vernel

Gaming, Games, Xbox, Tv & Film, Leisure, Comedy, Ps5, Ps4, Gamers, Video Games, Nintendo

4.8852 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Remember Star Fox? He's back! In grotesque puppet form! There's a "new" Star Fox game on the horizon and we're discussing everything we know from the divisive art style to the effectiveness of using a movie to promote an upcoming game. We've also had a huge look at Ryu Ga Gotoku's new decades spanning game Stranger Than Heaven, Ben's played more Saros and Tommy's checked out Mixtape.


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0:00.0

This week on Filthy Casuals, Star Fox is back for the third or fourth time, depending on how you look at it.

0:07.4

The Tojo clan is also back in Stranger Than Heaven, the new game from the makers of the Yakuza series.

0:14.1

Plus, Ben's been playing more of Saros, and I have checked out the indie nostalgia tinged gem mixtape. All of that and more on today's

0:24.8

Filthy Casuals.

0:36.3

Good morning video games. Welcome to Filthy Casuals, a podcast about video games, hosted by two very

0:44.4

kind and extremely knowledgeable boys. Thank you very much for joining us. My name is Tommy

0:49.8

Daselo and with me as always. It's Benvenel here and we are feeling fine.

0:57.0

We're not feeling under the weather.

0:59.0

We're feeling really good.

1:01.0

We're ready to talk about games and it's a beautiful day in Melbourne and I'm fine.

1:07.0

It was a great comedy of errors this morning where I, yesterday I started to think I was coming down with something.

1:13.8

So I flagged it.

1:14.8

I said, hey, maybe let's go remote.

1:16.7

I woke up and I was like, I'm actually feeling a bit better.

1:21.0

Maybe we can do in the room and you were like, well, now I'm feeling under the weather.

1:25.1

Oh, brother.

1:26.1

You couldn't write this stuff.

1:27.2

This is some real, it's Abbotton Costello on steroids, if you ask me.

1:34.0

It's Abbott and Casillo on Codrell.

1:38.2

Well, yes, and also the bit that you, you know, you nicely excluded was how you sent the message and said, hey, I'm feeling fine. You want to, you know, let's do it at your place. And I didn't reply for one hour because I was basically not fully conscious feeling a bit unwell. It's going around. It's been really cold. Yeah. I was like thinking this, this guy, this fucking guy, he's like, he set his alarm for like five minutes to ten. Like he's just going to roll out a bit. It's like, it's a real fat, you know, when you message someone in the morning, you just sort of do get that like that insight into like what kind of hours they keep and how they live their life. I hate when I wake up and I've gotten like a couple of messages from people. Like I really feel the judgment of like, well, I'm up at quarter to seven and I'm like ready to go. I'm doing business already. And then I'm not hearing back from this guy until like 9.30 a.m. But then so I haven't heard back from you. But then I'm in our little shared Google Doc, kind of adding some

2:35.0

stuff in, and I can see the little telltale cursor moving around. I'm like, this prick, so he's,

2:41.4

so he's lucid enough to be on the Google Drive, but he's not lucid enough to reply to a message.

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