What'll Dethrone Our Game Of The Year?
The MinnMax Show
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava run through their current personal Game of the Year pick (and some runner-ups) before shifting over to the horizon and speculating about which upcoming 2025 game could claim the top spot? Then we talk about The Rogue Prince of Persia and why Evil Empire's follow-up to their work on Dead Cells isn't making a bigger splash. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:48 - Our Game of the Year (at this point)
00:02:55 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
00:04:22 - Blue Prince
00:06:59 - Despelote
00:09:05 - Aotenjo: Infinite Hands
00:10:14 - Merge Maestro
00:10:42 - The Roottrees Are Dead
00:11:36 - Hollow Knight: Silksong
00:23:33 - Donkey Kong Bananza
00:26:53 - Keep Driving
00:28:48 - What can dethrone GOTY? Ghost of Yōtei, Mixtape, Lumines Arise?
00:39:11 - The Rogue Prince of Persia
01:00:26 - Cronos: The New Dawn
01:10:33 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/
01:12:18 - Community questions
01:48:29 - Get A Load Of This
Janet’s GALOT - https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/
JeffM's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4zLcKsCiA
Hanson's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bhqrrxt7yyfpwguioa7rwa7x/post/3lyftys4rhk2u?ref_src=embed
Kyle's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/kylehilliard.com/post/3lxqln2a4rs26
Community GALOT - https://www.spirithalloween.com/product/haunted-halloween-86-spirit-edition/280859.uts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of The Minmag Show, |
| 0:23.5 | place about games, friends, getting better, I'm Ben Hansen, waving aggressively. |
| 0:27.3 | We also are joined by Jeff Marcia Fava. |
| 0:31.1 | That's me. |
| 0:32.2 | We're joined by Kyle Hilliard. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello, I'm much faster. |
| 0:35.7 | And Jenna Garcia. |
| 0:41.1 | Hello. The fight and forth. This is a very special episode of the podcast. Thank you all for jumping in, tuning in, sharing it with a friend. |
| 0:45.9 | We are going to be talking about our game of the year. We're locking it down once and for all. |
| 0:50.4 | This is going to be for the entire Midmax outlet. Nobody else can contribute. We get to decide right here, right now. No, we just want to go around and see where everybody's at. It's nice to get like temperature check because I don't really know where the crew at large is at, and especially these four. So we're going to be going through our personal game of the year at the time of this recording and then run through the calendar up ahead just to see like, what could possibly dethrone our picks right now? But then we also have rogue prince of Persia. We're going to be talking about interesting release that I can't wait to unpack with you all. And then, Kyle, I want to pick your brain about Kronos, the new Don, if your brain is available to be picked. Yes, they'll open. |
| 1:45.9 | Okay, open the skull. Let us pick like crows. And then back half of the show, we have some wonderful questions submitted over there on Patreon. Greatly appreciate it. Now, if you're listening to this and you're saying, what's wrong with these weirdos? Where's Borderlands for? We're wondering the same thing. We have not played it yet. We'll be covering it next week on the podcast, hopefully. |
| 1:47.4 | Seems like it's coming in hot. |
| 1:44.6 | Also, for we're wondering the same thing uh we have not played it yet we'll be covering it next week on the podcast hopefully seems like it's coming in hot um also if you're saying what's wrong |
| 1:49.0 | with these weirdos why aren't they talking about the big Nintendo direct we have not seen it yet |
| 1:52.3 | this is recorded on Wednesday and so we if you're maybe listen to MinMax faster you know |
| 1:58.4 | put it on the listener maybe Maybe you're right, yeah. |
| 2:01.2 | If they're thinking that why aren't they talking about Nintendo when this comes out on Thursday, |
| 2:07.5 | they got bigger issues to solve. |
| 2:10.0 | The Nintendo Direct hasn't happened yet. |
| 2:11.8 | I know, but Jeff, with the analytics, a wide majority of people would listen to this after Friday, |
| 2:16.9 | which is where it's not the, they don't all listen the minute it comes out. So the casuals? Is that who we're hearing to? You're right, you're right. They probably don't even know what Nintendo is. All my real fan, HUNX fans know why we're not talking about Nintendo. But we got backstage past watching live now. There are the smart ones. ones. That's true. That's right. But if you're desperate for our takes on the Nintendo Direct announcements, check up in Max's YouTube channel because we are doing a live reaction. So you can technically see us react and unpack it a little bit there. Then I'm sure we'll talk about it next week on the podcast as well. Kyle, what's your damn goady? |
| 2:53.3 | Clear Obscure. |
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