The Best Combat in a Metroidvania . . .Ever

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

2025 already has a fantastic Metroidvania, errrr, Search Action game! Ender Magnolia combines Metroid, Nier, Mega Man, and Pokémon into a single, beautiful 2D experience. Technically, this is a sequel, but no prior experience is required to enjoy this indie treat. In the back half, Griffin talks about his mixed experience with Civilization 7.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Busy week in the news.
0:01.7	No.
0:03.3	This is a joke.
0:04.8	This is a joke.
0:06.8	This is a joke.
0:08.1	Oh, God.
0:09.5	We're all like getting really into retro handheld stuff, like in a big way, even more than usual.
0:15.4	Much to, I imagine, the chagrin of our listeners.
0:19.2	And I don't know.
0:20.6	I've messed around with a bunch of them, Russ.
0:21.8	You know more about this stuff than I do.
0:23.3	Maybe I should have asked this when other Russ was on the show.
0:26.4	No, I know more than him.
0:28.0	Okay, cool.
0:28.7	No, I figured.
0:29.3	So I guess what I'm looking for, I haven't found one yet that, like like it's important to have a good screen and I want the processor
0:38.9	to be like really fast and the graphics card to be like zoom in and then what is the piece of
0:45.1	hardware that goes in it that determines how it makes me feel like it did when I was a kid
0:53.7	right so like I was a kid.
0:54.6	Right.
0:59.3	So, like, I know a lot of people are talking about, like, the Snapdragon 3, like, the CPUs.
1:01.0	Yeah, that's not going to do it for you.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Besties, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Besties and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.