‘Metroid Prime 4,’ ‘Marvel Cosmic Invasion,’ and ‘Five Nights at Freddy's 2’ Reactions | Button Mash

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🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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After stepping inside Samus’s visor for the first time in years, Ben and Polygon's Giovanni Colantonio compare notes on the much-anticipated ‘Metroid Prime 4: Beyond,’ a great game grafted onto parts of other, less-good games. In their spoiler-lite chat, they puzzle over the game’s discordant elements, praise its strengths, and analyze how it fits into the franchise’s lineage before assessing the Switch 2's launch-window lineup now that Nintendo has released its last title of 2025. Then Jessica Clemons joins Ben to discuss their impressions of a new beat-'em-up brawler, ‘Marvel Cosmic Invasion,’ and a new video game movie that’s been beaten up by critics, ‘Five Nights at Freddy's 2.’ Intro (0:00)‘Metroid Prime 4’ Overview (3:00)'Marvel Cosmic Invasion' Review (1:06:34)Reactions to ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ (1:39:49)Outro (1:56:47) Host: Ben LindberghGuests: Giovanni Colantonio and Jess ClemonsProducer: Devon RenaldoAdditional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up? It's Todd McShay, host of the McShay Show at The Ringer and Spotify.
0:04.7	We're building this thing up and I couldn't be more excited to be back, talking college football
0:09.6	and everything NFL draft with the most informed audience out there. That's you.
0:15.0	My co-host, Steve Mention, I will be with you three times a week throughout the football season
0:19.8	with all the latest news, analysis,
0:22.0	and scouting intel from around the league.
0:24.7	For even more insight, subscribe to my newsletter, The McShea Report, to access my mock drafts,
0:30.9	big boards, tape breakdowns, and other exclusive scouting content you can't get anywhere else.
0:37.6	It's going to be a great season.
0:39.4	And I hope you'll be with us at the McShay show every step of the way.
1:03.1	Hello and welcome into The Ringerverse, your nexus feed for all things fandom.
1:07.9	I am Benvenberg, senior editor for The Ringer, and head space pirate of button mash.
1:13.0	I don't endorse or condone game piracy, to be clear. Only space piracy.
1:19.2	And in the words of Samus sidekick Miles McKenzie, it's about to get real nerdy in here,
1:24.7	if it hasn't already. Later on this episode, Jessica Clemens will join me to discuss new beat-em-up game Marvel Cosmic Invasion and new beat-up by critics movie Five Nights
1:29.4	at Freddy's Two. Another Night at Freddy's. That's not the actual subtitle. It doesn't have one.
1:34.7	But first, I see someone glowing green in my visor, scanning, scanning. It's Giovanni Colomtonio,
1:43.8	editor at large for Polygon.
1:45.9	Geo, welcome.
1:47.0	Thank you so much.
1:48.1	I'm happy to be here, much like Miles McKenzie, is happy to be in Metroid Prime
1:52.0	4 Beyond.
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