Ep. 286 - Musouls, with Blessing Adeoye Jr.
Added 2023-05-08 07:21:38 +0000 UTCKinda Funny Games host and producer Blessing Adeoye Jr. joins the panel to cover review scores for video games, Frank’s answer for good adventure game design, and the Capcom Five. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Blessing Adeoye Jr. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- What do people expect from a review of a new game?
- Who have been the best level designers since Doom?
- How can a difficult video game puzzle keep players from losing patience and resolve to solve it?
- Let’s all record some all purpose video game sample dialogue.
- Lloyd Irving asks: Rank the Capcom Five.
- Koei Tecmo wants you to scout the right IP for their next Musou game. Who do you approach?
LIGHTNING ROUND: Reccing Crew - Star Wars characters
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Chun-Li
- The Pest (1997)
- K'
- Terry Bogard
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves
- Asuka 120% series
- Blue Mary
- Ramlethal Valentine
- Eddy Gordo
- Scorpion
- Takeda Takahashi
- Fight Night Round 3
- PS5 controller could track your sweat and heart rate
- The Last of Us: Part I
- Redfall
- Star Wars: Jedi - Survivor
- Dead Rising
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Pokémon Scarlet
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- GamePro Magazine
- Super Mario series
- Doom
- Gears of War series
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
- Dishonored
- Prey
- Deathloop
- Hitman series
- Hirokazu Yasuhara
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Uncharted series
- Sonic R
- Jak X: Combat Racing
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Silent Hill series
- Resident Evil series
- Nintendo patents in-game hint system
- Digital Pictures
- Until Dawn
- The Quarry
- Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order
- Horizon II: Forbidden West - Burning Shores
- Call of Duty series
- Audio Atrocities
- Vincent Price
- Bloody Wolf
- Capcom Five
- P.N.03
- Viewtiful Joe
- Dead Phoenix
- Resident Evil 4
- Killer7
- The Silver Case
- Flower Sun and Rain
- Shenmue series
- Huge Earthbound Fan Excited to Play It for First Time
- Gundam
- God Hand
- Ace Attorney / Gyakuten Saiban series
- Koei's Warriors / Musō series
- Hyrule Warriors
- Funko Pop
- Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below
- Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
- Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Seimasenki no Sho
- Super Smash Brothers series
- Fortnite: Battle Royale
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Bloodborne
- Nioh
- Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
- Ninja Gaiden series
- Kingdom Hearts series
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT
- Mortal Kombat series
- Warriors All-Stars
- Earth Defense Force series
Recommendations:
Blessing: Check out The Blessing Show on Kinda Funny Games and the Phil Spencer interview from Kinda Funny
Brandon: Demonschool public demo, Koudelka
Tim: Play the Shadow Hearts series and Sōkaigi if you want to play a couple other weirder lesser talked about or looked at video games that are all somewhat related to Koudelka, have a unionized workplace if you have the option
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
for EDF I'd agree, but within the Doom franchise It might open up new possibilities? I dunno, maybe!
Jodeaux
2023-05-16 18:59:44 +0000 UTCchewby, get us outta here!
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2023-05-16 18:30:44 +0000 UTC(brandon:) I feel like a big budget would ruin EDF!! or at least make it a different thing?
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2023-05-15 22:21:18 +0000 UTCI've been thinking that a future entry for the Doom franchise is to make a high budget Earth Defense Force-style game. Those new Dooms are great but I think an interesting path forward would be to expand the scope of the action, and battle hordes of demons on a screen that can barely contain the madness. Isn't this what makes Doom WADs so popular anyway? Seems like a logical extension of that idea. Oh Also, I've asked Ed Boon several times to make a souls-like game starring Scorpion set in outworld. Ed, if you're reading this, I'm still available to direct that game! lol
Jodeaux
2023-05-15 20:04:29 +0000 UTCWe got it, sorry!! just a little of the ole human error (forgot to hit "post")
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2023-05-15 18:15:26 +0000 UTClooks like it! We'll fix this!!
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2023-05-15 18:10:01 +0000 UTCHi. Am I experiencing a glitch, or has this week’s episode not been uploaded to Patreon? I assumed it was coming late like a few weeks ago but just saw on Twitter that it’s uploaded to the normal feed.
Sam
2023-05-15 17:45:07 +0000 UTCi want a fromsoft/souls musou so bad, sometimes i just want the vibe and also to take out a hundred souls guys at one. Armored Core would also be so legit as a musou.
rob anybody
2023-05-11 00:22:05 +0000 UTCIf you didn't feel the need to continue after those 10 minutes, I wouldn't say you absolutely need to return to it. The story weaves around in interesting ways and there is some variety to cut scene visuals, but the gameplay itself remains almost identical to how it begins. Don't know how well the writing holds up, but it is a game that very much felt like it achieved what Suda and team set out to make.
Dustin Reno
2023-05-10 21:41:37 +0000 UTC(brandon:) I've still never played more than 10 minutes of it, so I was very much the "well, suda was involved, so it's probably good?" person myself. I've heard so much about it though... I'll get around to it eventually!!
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2023-05-10 17:59:11 +0000 UTCBlessing was such a great guest to have on the show! Your all-purpose voice recordings would be playing QUITE frequently were they a part of the games I play haha Really enjoyed the discussion around review expectations and level designers. And glad to hear killer7 getting some love still! Stumbling upon the Plot Analysis by someone on GameFAQs back in the day was one of the earliest things that made me realize that stories in games could be more than surface level plot beats. That's no fault of games, that was on me but between the aesthetic choices and abstract narrative choices made me appreciate what else was possible.
Dustin Reno
2023-05-10 16:52:09 +0000 UTCah wow! forum signup was closed only very briefly, it's been open for quite some time! anyway koudelka is cool and those shadow hearts gay "jokes" are indeed terrible!!!!!!
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2023-05-08 18:08:26 +0000 UTCMy name's Ko. I'm beating down evil. I got Koudelka by deciding I wanted and instantly finding it in the first Book-Off I saw. Then I forgot it on the street of Ikebukuro for 6 hours and it was still there when I went back. Thanks Japan. Shadow Hearts is good, and is getting a spiritual Kickstarter remake right now, but the first game has a wildly inappropriate joke every time you go to the gay moxibustion healer guy. (btw is the forum signup open again? it wasn't last time I looked so just kept posting here)
MVB
2023-05-08 08:57:06 +0000 UTC
