Having a Ball - Vidjagame Apocalypse 650

Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.7 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 156 minutes

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The holiday release blitz continues, and we are having a ball – literally! With games like Ball X Pit, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and Once Upon a Katamari all placing spherical shapes in prominent roles (or rolls, to be theme-appropriate), we wanted to take a look at the top games where you play as a ball. After that, we give Ball X Pit some much-deserved praise, see what Double Fine has been up to with Keeper, and tell you about our time so far in Lumiose City with our initial takes on Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Question of the Week: What is a gaming hardware brand, trend, or product that needs to be revived? Break Song is "I'm Having a Ball" by Steve Lang Vidjagame Apocalypse theme by Matthew Joseph Payne.

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0:00.0	I'm BASK! BAS! BAS! BAS! BADY! BAS! BADY! BADY! BADY! I'm Hey everybody, welcome to episode number 650 of Vigigame Apocalypse.
0:32.3	I am your host, Matthew Allen, who is here in the Jason McCogurn Memorial Studio of the Airways with me.
0:37.6	Who?
0:38.4	It's Chris Antista.
0:42.3	Hello, Chris Antista.
0:44.2	And who else?
0:46.5	I'm trying to find out who created this chair, T.L. Foster.
0:50.7	Oh, I got the reference.
0:52.0	I'm here on the chair company.
0:54.0	That's right, baby. I haven't watched it yet. I haven I got the reference. I'm here on the chair company. That's right, baby.
0:55.3	I haven't watched it yet. I haven't watched it yet. It's so good. And you good? Yes, dude. My friend would, Kennell-Tadst me, like, you need to watch chair company. I was like, I'll get to it. I'll get to it. And I did. I did disappoint. I heard some of the reviews I've seen I don't want to spoil it for myself or anybody, but it's just like, it might be more successful at friendship, the movie that came out of like taking his awkward style of humor and making it work in like a longer form, right?
1:25.2	So it's basically like taken, I think you should leave sketch and extend it out to the premise of a whole season of a TV show. Whereas friendship at times was like, okay, I got it. Like after the first 30 minutes, you're like, this is a little grading and oh man, this guy's really falling apart. Advanced cringe. The only thing I'll say, Matt, imagine a friendship if that character was right.
1:45.3	Yes.
1:45.8	Okay.
1:52.1	Which is, I mean, I feel like that is a lot of the premise of his humor of like, hey, this guy's not wrong.
1:54.1	He's just going about things in the wrong.
1:57.5	Like, his reaction is unreasonable, but he's necessarily wrong. It's usually about not being able to admit to being wrong is the thesis for like
2:02.1	almost half of the sketches.
2:04.1	That's true.
2:04.9	I can't admit to being wrong.
2:06.2	Yeah, this one is right.
2:08.0	This one is completely different.
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