Paper Mario and the Emergent Memes.
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Hosted by Lee Brady (@leepaulbrady) and Lawrence (@BPR_Lawrence)
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Segments:
00:00:23 – News/Follow-Up: DJ2 Productions, Indivisible TV Show and all the other weird announcements you’ve been hearing
00:09:40 – Lawrence plays/explains Baba Is You
00:18:48 – Lee descends into visual novels with Ace Attorney/Danganronpa
00:27:46 – Lee starts the long journey to making his own Visual Novel in Ren’Py
00:34:05 – News: Ubisoft Forwards, Backwards, Roundabout (Hyper Scapes, Watch Dogs: Cringe and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla) with a little bit of Nioh thrown in for good measure
00:56:51 – News: Lee enamoured with the most boring game in the world, Microsoft Flight Simulator
01:00:41 – News: Far Cry 6 gets Gus Fring, we talk just long enough to justify his face on the cover of the episode
01:02:48 – News: Mario, in particular Paper Mario, held captive by a Nintendo afraid to let him live a little creatively
01:09:50 – 51 Tradition Games Too Boring to Talk on a Podcast / Dark Souls Cubbyhole
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Links for this episode:
https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2020/07/17/nintendo-veteran-explains-some-of-the-restrictions-around-creating-new-paper-mario-charactersPaper Mario in chains
https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-reworked-a-famous-holocaust-quote-to-promote-wa-1844367235I mean, it might get a little hand wringy in article form, but the sentiment is right, yikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTehTtO1YecTGBS: "When to Use Actor Faces in Video Games"
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