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Vidjagame Apocalypse

Retro Spinoffs That Outshined Modern Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 375

Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.8930 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

This week's release of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 got us thinking about retro-styled games that often started out as companion pieces to bigger, more modern spectacles, but quickly became fan favorites and even enduring classics - so we grabbed Leif Johnson to talk about five of the best examples, after which we chat about Iron Man VR, get weirdly excited for Ready Player Two, and talk about the games you're most looking forward to in the latter half of 2020.

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0:00.0

The Oh, Hey everybody and welcome to episode 375 of a video game apocalypse. I'm your host Michael gonna read the crap out of ready player two riparas who else is here with me in the mystical magical

0:40.4

magical Vincent Garcia Memorial Studio of the Airwaves.

0:44.5

Patreon.com slash Laser Time.

0:46.2

Always in the Zoom word happened, Chris Antista.

0:48.6

And I cost $10 more, but I am worth it Matthew Allen and special guest

0:54.9

Lafe I'm ready for Ghost of Suishima Johnson. Oh shit I'm also ready for Ghost of

0:59.7

Sushima. That's incredible. Where can people see your stuff?

1:04.0

Obviously you've been on this show, but you have a career outside of us.

1:07.0

Yeah, I recently was an editor from Macworld and you can actually find my work on there and PC worlds because they're still

1:14.0

tossing me freelance work. I'm on I.gen now and looking at some other places

1:19.6

M-M-O-R-P-G-G-G-G-D.com. So yeah I'm out and about and all around and since I'm a freelance again you can see me in a lot of places.

1:25.6

We've got an interesting show. Obviously a bunch of new releases hitting this week, very few of which we've had a chance to play. A bunch of news coming out. We've got

1:37.0

uh, you've got uh, you've got uh, you've got uh, you've saw forward on the near horizon. But one of the new releases that we're eagerly awaiting is

1:44.0

Curse of the Moon 2. Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 2.

1:48.0

If you'll remember like this this was actually the sequel to a game

1:51.0

that came out kind of like nobody really was expecting it to come out and it was sort of like this retro throwback almost a promo to another game

2:01.7

Bloodstained Ritual of the Night, which was a bit more.

2:04.0

It was also a throwback, but also a bit more modern.

2:07.0

Well, they were expecting it because it was a kickstarter bonus.

2:09.0

It was a, it was a reward tier, wasn't it?

2:12.0

It was, it might have been but again

2:14.4

Operative word is bonus it seemed like a bonus like oh here yeah this will be nice and

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