The Game Of The Year Debate 2021 (Part 1)
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🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
It's time to build the list of our favorite games of 2021! On this big episode, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, and Sarah Podzorski create a list of Game of the Year contenders before they start whittling it down to The Two Tens. We debate Psychonauts 2, Death's Door, The Forgotten City, Bravely Default 2, and a whole lot more on this episode. We'll be back next week with a new episode to rank and finalize the list. Unlock early access to the final discussion by supporting MinnMax on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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00:00:00 - Intro
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Before we start today's episode of the MinMaxShow podcast, the folks behind |
| 0:04.4 | another Eden that can't be on time in space, those developers wanted you to know about |
| 0:09.4 | complex dream, which is an event happening, which actually crosses the game over with the world |
| 0:15.2 | of ChronoCross. So Masato Kato, who is a writer on ChronoTrigger and writer-director on ChronoCross, |
| 0:20.0 | and addition to a bunch of other stuff, he finally worked this out with Square so we can actually |
| 0:23.7 | have a crossover event with the ChronoCross characters. So the event is called complex dream, |
| 0:28.7 | and you can replay it because there are branching storylines, depending on if you choose kid |
| 0:32.1 | or hardly in the beginning. I personally go hardly, I'm a fan. And the beauty of a game like |
| 0:36.4 | ChronoCross that involves parallel worlds is that a crossover isn't too much of a stretch. |
| 0:40.9 | The characters just pop up somewhere else. It's another world. The game also contains music |
| 0:46.2 | overseen by Mitsuda, my favorite composer of all time. So if you're interested in ChronoCross, |
| 0:50.7 | you want to check out a free throwback JRPG, check out another Eden on Steam or on your mobile device. |
| 0:56.9 | If you want to learn more, you can go to bit.ly slash minmaxae. There's a link in the description |
| 1:01.5 | for you. And enough about ChronoCross for now. Let's start the show. |
| 1:13.2 | Hello and welcome to a new episode of the minmax show. A place about games, friends. Getting |
| 1:28.3 | better. This is a big episode. Everybody. This is where we start debating the real |
| 1:34.4 | top games of the year for 2021. I'm Ben Hansen joined by Janik Garcia. Yo, what's good? |
| 1:41.5 | Join by Sarah Fatsorsky. Hello. |
| 1:43.9 | Join by hang on. You son defeated already, Sarah. Hello. |
| 1:47.3 | Okay. Also Jeff Markier Fava. Oh, hi. Kyle Hillyard. |
| 1:52.3 | Returnal. And Leo Vader. Hi, Returnal to you. |
| 1:57.0 | And a returnal to you all. Welcome everybody. We are making the list. The list that we |
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