High on Life 2: Wise-cracking Weaponry is Back!| Official Xbox Podcast

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Video Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, we have Matty and Mikey in from Squanch Games to talk about one of our most anticipated sequels, High On Life 2. We're going to dive deep into the comedy of the game, how they come up with all of those eclectic weapons we know and love, the look and feel of world, and how the studio is turning around this follow up only three years after the first.

00:00 Introduction

03:00 How are you holding up?

04:47 How did you turn around a sequel so quickly?

07:44 Comedy

13:43 Artistic style differences between High On Life and the sequel

15:34 ConCon at Gamescon

17:53 Hub system

22:27 Writing for the game

23:33 Celebrity voice actors

25:39 Gun design

27:10 Balancing guns and characters

29:00 Will Kenny be in the sequel?

30:05 What are you most excited about in High On Life 2?

33:03 Final thoughts

34:31 Outro

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0:00.0	Games in this podcast range from E to M.
0:03.1	Yo, what is going on, everybody?
0:04.7	Welcome back to the official Xbox podcast.
0:06.6	It's the only podcast coming to you from inside Xbox.
0:10.3	We have a great one for you today.
0:11.5	We're going to be talking about the sequel to High on Life, which if you guessed,
0:14.5	we're talking about High on Life, too, nothing gets about you, right?
0:17.8	Before we get into this, we read the comments, right?
0:20.1	We're like, oh, bring
0:20.8	Malik and Ethan back. They're the best thing that happened to Xbox, and Halo. It's never
0:23.6	been a comment. They're bringing in Taylor Swift. Like, we get it, we get it. So, in the spirit of giving the people what they want, I'm one of your host, Malik Prince, joined alongside Ethan Rothamale.
0:32.1	Hey, good to be here.
0:33.4	I've never seen that comment once on this show, but that's all right.
0:36.3	I also, it's so good to see you.
0:38.0	Let me say that.
0:38.9	You too.
0:39.3	Yeah, I miss you so much.
0:40.7	I have to, I have to. I've never seen that comment once on the show, but that's all right. I also, it's so good to see you.
0:38.0	Let me say that. You too. Yeah, I miss you so much. I have to say this live on the air because I literally haven't seen you in months at this point. And the minute I get to say hi to you, we're on the air. So it's so good to see you. You look great. You too. Look at us. I almost said Chicago that San Diego Sun is doing you good.
0:57.0	It's the end of summer's shine you glow up you know does the summer actually ever end in san diego though that's true that's the best part about it it's the best part about it you yeah meanwhile we got like two weeks left before we all turn into vampires in seattle so yeah trying milk it. Yeah, milk it for all it's worth.
1:11.7	What are we going on today?
1:12.7	We have a great one for you today.
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