Hello and welcome to the IGN UK podcast. It's me Simon Cardi with Matt Puzzle. Hello.

With Jesse Gomez. Hi there. Thank you to everyone who came to the live show last week.

That was fun. We had a lovely time. Yeah, it was fantastic. It was a blast time.

Did you have a good time, Matt? Are you in agreement? I did have a good time, yeah.

Good, lovely. Hopefully you've been able to listen to it even if you weren't there.

I think the sound quality is okay. Just about, yeah. Better than 500 certainly.

Oh yes, yes, yes. It was a lovely time. So thank you again for going. If you did go.

This week, it's kind of our last standard episode of the year. We've got, don't worry,

every Friday, we're still going to have a podcast, but they're going to be, you know, best stops.

Look ahead, that sort of thing. So it's the last week of the normal rigour morole.

It's not event, it's not rigour morole. It's just rigour morole, isn't it? Yeah, having a

need to have the spelling examination. I was annoyed with myself. Let's talk about some games.

Let's start off with one way we're enjoying quite a bit, shall we? Both me and Matt have been playing

Marvel's Midnight Suns, the new turn-based card battleers slash strategy tactics games from

Frances. I mean, you've also, I think you've missed out like, probably the biggest element of this game

is an RPG. It's a social sim RPG. I would lead with the other stuff because the combat is the stuff

that's very good in this game. Whereas the RPG and social sim side, I think we're both in agreement

is less engaged. It is the week. I wanted to ask, can I date blade or war? There's no romance.

No, that's bullshit. I'm quite disappointed by that. Yeah. What do you, yeah, I think we're in

a similar vibes on this one, Matt, that we really enjoy the game when it's in combat.

We're just not kind of sticking in it when you're spending time in the abbey, which is where

you hang out with all your superhero friends. You're quite a bit further than me. I'm only

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