I'm Hello everyone, and welcome to the Canem Rince podcast.

This is Volume 10, Issue 498, and today we will be talking about Lisa, the painful RPG.

Joining me, Leah Heydue, in Issue 498 are Brian Edwards.

Hello, hello.

Joshua Garrity.

Hello there.

And Ryan Jow.

I'm here and I'm ready to laugh.

Aren't we all?

Yeah, this is going to be a real lighthearted and cheerful episode.

It's a really good family, you know, feel good hit of the summer.

People are falling down all the time and getting injured.

It's so funny.

Jeez.

So if you have no idea what Lisa is, we discussed this a little bit before the show and decided that this is one of the times

that we really do want to emphasize that this episode does carry a content warning for a lot of

things. It is a very dark game in tone. So, yes, content warning for violence, sexual violence, child abuse, suicide, drug addiction, dismemberment, body horror. Basically, you name it, it is in this game. It is disturbing in a lot of ways to a lot of people. So if there are any concerns about that, I would really recommend that either

you skip this one or at the very, very least, proceed with caution so that, you know,

nobody is made unduly uncomfortable by the content of the game. So what is Lisa? This is not one

that I personally was familiar with prior to the podcast recording schedule coming out for this year. So this was kind of a new one on me. But Lisa is a side-scrolling 2D sprite-based turn-based RPG with light platform, and featuring many different recruitable party members.

I have any of them can be missed, but I don't believe that's entirely true. Most of them can be

missed. I think there are a couple of mandatory party members, notably your first party member,

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