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The MinnMax Show

Final Fantasy VII Remake, PS5 Controller, Writing LEGO Games

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 172 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! On this week's episode, we share out gut reaction to Sony's reveal of the PlayStation 5 controller called the DualSense and share spoiler-free impressions of Final Fantasy VII Remake. Then we're joined by Griffin Newman (Blank Check podcast, The Tick) and Graham Goring (LEGO City Undercover, LEGO The Force Awakens) to talk about the cultural impact of the LEGO games and the process of writing film parodies within video games. Then we open up the Minnbox 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 leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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0:00 - MinnMax's new theme song composed by Chris Tilton (SimCity, Fringe, Assassin's Creed Unity)

1:25 - The Deepest Dive on Final Fantasy VII Remake

4:00 - PlayStation 5's DualSense controller

21:00 - Phil Spencer on IGN's Unlocked podcast

25:45 - Google Stadia

28:15 - Final Fantasy VII Remake

37:15 - Half-Life: Alyx

39:10 - Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

42:00 - Lost Cities

43:50 - Raptor

46:20 - Griffin Newman and Graham Goring on the impact of LEGO Games

1:40:00 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

1:43:45 - Community questions

2:43:30 - Get A Load Of This

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Hello and welcome to the MinMax show at good place or forget bad Things, I'm Ben Hanson joined by Suriel Vasquez.

0:25.2

Hi.

0:26.7

Jeff Markeyafava.

0:28.0

Hey!

0:29.2

And Kyle Hilliard.

0:31.0

Whoa!

0:32.0

Always a technical hurdle to get these things up and running, but we've done it. I believe if you're watching the video version it's a different layout. I hope you enjoy what this is, but hey what this is is a hell of an episode. We got a lot that we're covering.

0:43.6

There's a game here that have written down called the Final Fantasy 7

0:46.2

remake that I will share spoiler-free impressions of. I've only been the first

0:51.1

six hours and we'll get to that in a little bit. We're going to talk about the PlayStation 5. of

0:53.0

I've only been the first six hours and we'll get to that in a little bit. We're going to talk about the PlayStation 5 controller,

0:55.0

which of course it's a Tuesday afternoon

0:58.0

Sony's got to reveal the PlayStation 5 controller.

1:01.0

Right after Sony or Microsoft had announced their inside Xbox thing was happening.

1:07.0

So he just happened to drop their controller.

1:10.3

Hey, this is the fun console wars that we all have grown to love. Then a little bit about Half

1:15.3

Life Alex again. Then Jeff I'm talking about tabletop games and then maybe some fun surprises

1:20.5

thrown in there as well and then some great community questions in the

1:23.4

back after the shows we open up the minbox table setting out of the gate is the

1:28.8

deepest dive on Final 67 that is our game club discussion. That is kicking off.

1:34.0

Kicking off next week.

1:35.0

This is going to be super fun.

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