Hollow Knight: Silksong, 007 First Light, Shinobi Rules

The MinnMax Show

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Games, Video Games, Leisure

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 176 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Jeff Marchiafava, and returning champion Suriel Vazquez share their early review of one of the most-anticipated games of all time: Hollow Knight: Silksong. Then we rave about SEGA's revival with Shinobi: Art of Vengeance and explain why Lumines Arise is lodged in our soul. After that the party begins with Haley MacLean, Sarah Podzorski, and Leo Vader joining the show to talk about a couple of great sim games with dark twists: Discounty and Grimshire. Then Leo explains why IO Interactive's 007 First Light is living up to his wildest Hitman fantasies and 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

00:02:16 - Get a Steam code for Spilled! (and YouTube Analytics)

00:06:52 - Hollow Knight: Silksong

00:39:17 - Factor Meals

00:41:12 - Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

00:56:06 - Lumines Arise

01:03:39 - Cronos: The New Dawn

01:07:19 - Jacob's book How A Game Lives

01:09:01 - Recent embarrassments

01:11:43 - Discounty

01:24:21 - Grimshire

01:36:38 - 007 First Light

01:48:16 - Apotris

01:55:40:49 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:58:20 - Community questions

02:40:01 - Get A Load Of This

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Sarah's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlDfVTl5pmI

JeffM's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtHPFvQ1Puw

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of the MinMax Show,
0:07.0	place about games, friends getting better. Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of The MinMax Show,
0:23.4	place about games, friends, and getting better.
0:25.0	I'm Ben Hansen, and a happy Silk Song to you, and I'm joined by one Jacob Geller.
0:30.5	I never thought this day would come, Ben.
0:32.3	Truly, the day where the four of us are podcasting together about the one and only
0:36.4	All Night Silk Song. We're also joined by Jeff Marguiafava. That's me. And the happiest silk song to the silkiest man in town I'm talking about Cyril Vasquez, returning champ. Ja! That's the thing she says all the time when you fight her. Oh, does she say that?
0:54.9	I didn't notice that.
0:56.7	That's what everybody.
0:58.8	This podcast is going up one day late.
0:59.6	Thank you for your patience.
1:01.5	Hopefully we warned you last week about it enough.
1:07.3	But we are talking about Hollow Night Silk Song, first impressions-ish of that their game.
1:10.2	And then after that, we're talking about Shinobi Art of Vengeance.
1:27.8	Will we teach you the Art of Vengeance? Stay tuned. Serial, God bless your heart because you said that you wanted to talk about Luminezerize a little bit. Yeah. I played the demo. I was going to play it today again, but you can't play it anymore. Nope, they took it away. It's the concord of its time, that demo. They literally, they sent an email to me that said,
1:30.3	the Lumina's demo is done.
1:32.0	Go play Silk Song.
1:33.6	Like it said that in the email.
1:36.4	That's smart.
1:38.2	Then we are swapping things around.
1:40.1	We are nuking this cast from orbit.
1:42.6	And we are getting Haley McLean, Sarah Pajorski, and Leo Vader to join the cast. We're going to be talking about Discounty. We're going to be talking about 007 First Light, the next game for the Reelvers of Hitman that Leo has some strong thoughts on. Sarah wants to talk about a game called Grimshire, and I played it today, and I am so excited to talk about Grim Shire with Sarah. I think it's a fascinating game.
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