My Favourite Game Season 2 was fun. After the show’s first season in where it was all fellow writers and personalities, saw the introduction of game developers from the season onwards. The season ended back in May, but there’s still one last episode to get through before we can start to look ahead to Season 3 later this year.
The Best of Season 2 takes a look back at some of the best bits of Season 2 as well as bits that unfortunately made the cutting room floor but now reappear here in this special, lasting over an hour-and-a-half.
Before that, I want to take the time to point out, as I did during the Best of Season One special, the three episodes that eptimised what My Favourite Game is about – sharing stories of playing games, the personal meaning and attachment to them and just talking of our love for them. All ten episodes are all great, but these three are my personal picks if someone held a gun to my head and asked me to name the three episodes that showed what My Favourite Game was about.
The first one is without question the most personal episode of My Favourite Game done in the short time its been going on. Julie Horup on The Binding of Issac on how games were part of her upbringing and various parallels between it and the game, how any particular game can help you through the most challenging of times in life and how they can be an outlet for someone making a game, like Ed McMillen with Issac.
The second being Ria Jenkins on Bayonetta. Putting aside the fact that there was a fun chat had with Ria on all things Bayonetta, there was a related chat in the episode on sex in games I felt was excellent and one not talked about a lot too much, at least on a games podcast. There’s a part of it I had to cut due to time restrictions from the episode, but it’s been added back in for this. There’s more details below.
Finally, Splash Damage’s Ed Stern on Half-Life and just the sheer amount of detail he went into in regards to that game, not to mention the inspiration its had on him in making games at the London-based studio.
[Special mention too to Molly Carroll’s episode on The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask just for how fun it was]
