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Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca118: Virtua Tennis 4 (PS Vita), New Star Tennis (Steam Deck), Gaelco's Squash (Evercade)"Always make sure the DEUCE is worth the squeeze". That's the idiom that we assume tennis players must live and die by. We'll LET you mull that one over as you listen to this week's podcast SERVING. Okay, sorry, we'll stop now.We are joined once again by our friend Haikers who is a marathon runner and 'Monroe Bagger' so he must know all about tennis right?! Probably. He's opted to tell us all about New Star Tennis (2010, PC) which is part of the intriguing indie New Star sport series.2025-06-301h 02Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca117: Skullgirls & Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (Steam Deck)26 years is a long time...26 years ago, Manchester United had just won the treble...26 years ago, Tony Hawk landed THE 900 (and had his first named video game released...26 years also marks how long it has been since we have set eyes on a new Fatal Fury game and it didn't take long for our resident fighting game aficionado Rich to pick up the latest release in the storied SNK franchise, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (2025, Steam Deck).After...2025-06-231h 02Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca116: Hitman: World of Assassination & A Hitman Series Retrospective'Hotman' Paris Hutapea is an Indonesian lawyer, presenter, and businessman. He is known for his flamboyant style, high-profile clients, and luxurious lifestyle.'Hotman' is also a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sho Kitagawa.None of the above should be confused with 'Hitman' AKA Agent 47, iconic protagonist (according to a recent BAFTA poll) of the storied IOInteractive series. It's not something that anyone who is a huge fan of the entire franchise would ever be confused about... Isn't that right Rich?!Whilst all...2025-06-161h 12Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca115: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (PS5), Atomfall (Xbox Series19 years ago, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was released to critical acclaim across multiple platforms and it won several Game of the Year awards with its incredible RPG open world.Uncontent with this achievement, Bethesda and Virtuos studio decided that they would also attempt to nuke this years GOTY elect, Clair Obscure: Expidition 33, by shadow dropping The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (2025, PS5) like an Acme-sized anvil in the indie game's cup of tea.Whilst we've not got around to playing Expedition 33 yet, our resident special guest Fiona has...2025-06-101h 34Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca114: Building a PS Vita 'Collection' Game: A Top 100 Games DraftSometimes in a relationship, you have to take stock of where you are heading together and work through some of the 'icky' stuff. Sure, there's been some rough patches between us but we're in it for the long haul. No, dont worry, we're not talking about Fazz and Rich... We're referencing the relationship between Living La Vita Loca Podcast and the PS Vita.Fazz has drafted in a marriage counselling tool, Sandeep Rai's (2old4gaming) excellently written 'Top 100 Vita Games' magazine, to help construct a therapy session between the...2025-06-021h 01Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca112: Shadow of the Colossus (PS4), Sword of Sodan (Sega Mega Drive)Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! Are you ready to hear a terrible opinion on a critical gaming masterpiece? Of course you are... Shadow of the Colossus (2005, PS2) is considered a work of art and a gaming institution by nearly everybody. Released on 3 generations of Playstation in a row, it's clear that Sony are...2025-05-1949 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca111: Doom 2016 (Xbox One), Quake (PC)Boom! Shake, shake, shake the room! Boom! Shake, shake, Quake the Doom! Doom! Quake, Quake, Quake the Doom! Not entirely sure where we go from here now... Erm... Fazz reviews Doom (2016, Xbox One). Rich reviews Quake (1996, PC). There's a highly disappointing visit to a special Doom: The Dark Ages exhibit at The Royal Armouries, Leeds and an important chat about sexy bellies! What else do you need?! Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Doom! Enjoy the pod.2025-05-1256 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca110: Sly Cooper HD & Open Me! (PS Vita)We know... we know... we'll have a nosebleed reviewing TWO Vita games in a single episode but we promise its worth the bloodshed... We've been a little hard on the PS Vita recently but it feels like we've 'unboxed' a couple of real gems this week... Open Me (2013, PS Vita) is an augmented reality puzzle game from Sony's Japan Studio. It's generally regarded as one of the best of it's genre on the PS Vita and it might even have impressed Rich! The hope is that he still has a few fingers left to play games with and they haven't...2025-05-0537 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca108: Interview with @Scottmassey83 at 'Beers and Bytes' (Horsforth Brewery)Hi PoddersWe recorded this special interview with @Scottmassey83 in March 2025 down at @Horsforth_tap during their retro Beers and Bytes evening.Fazz (interviewing) is flying after 3 pints of Horsforth Brewery's excellent 'Forty Orbits' so please forgive the slurred line of questioning and concentrate on Scott's answers as we discuss his Instagram account all about an adoration for gaming. We hit important subjects such as what it is like to herald from Barnsworth (Castleford), tinkering with consoles/controllers and how great it is to...2025-04-2024 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca107: Worms Armageddon (PC), Killer Frequency (PS4)Hi Podpeeps We recorded this small-scale episode a few weeks ago as half of your host duo are on their holidays currently. It's appropriate then that we spend the bulk of our time discussing some of the most famous tiny creatures in the video gaming world, Team 17's Worms. In particular, Rich covers off Worms Armageddon (1999, PC) which recently had a 25th anniversary edition released via Team 17/Digital Eclipse at the end of 2024. Whilst we do not cover that particular version on the podcast, Rich's review was enough to force Fazz to wriggle off and purchase it in the meantime...2025-04-1333 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca106: Tekken 8 (PS5), Rez Infinite (Meta Quest 3), Fantavision (PS2)Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where both hosts pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from each other. We review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our TOP quality review. Simple? You bet we are! Alas, there was a little bit of an identity crisis on the pod this week relating to the games we brought to the table... With a season 2 patch dropping in the week of recording, Rich asks who is Tekken 8 (2024, PS5) for and why does it struggle...2025-04-0750 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca104: Resistance Retribution (PSP/PS Plus), Cliff Diving Augmented Reality (PS Vita)Hi podders This week is all about 'Unfinished Business'. Whether it is chasing former housemates down the road with a glass bottle at 3am or potentially defecating on others from a great height, it's all about REWENGE this week. (FYI... That is spelled correctly. Peak Blackadder/Peep Show reference. Go check it out.) Rich heads to the beach via his tabletop surface to play Cliff Diving (2012, PS Vita), an augmented reality Vita feature that he is yet to share his feelings about on the podcast. Let's hope it doesn't land flat like some of the other PS Vita gadgets have...2025-03-2438 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca102: Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (PS4)Space Admin, Space aquariums, Sexy space robots. These are just some of the dense themes that someone needs to cover off when reviewing the 100 hour space odyssey that is Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (PS4, 2021). We decided we needed to rope in a 'Large Party RPG' professional to help with such weighty topics... Someone who can actually define the words 'Paragon' and 'Renegade' (unlike Fazz). Someone who is happy to speak effusively for 90 minutes on our podcast whilst we prod them with really inane questions. Someone who has played through the remastered trilogy again recently so it's fresh in their mind. ...2025-03-101h 23Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca101: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS5), Sleeping Dogs (Xbox One)Gang warfare. Yakuza. Triads. It's a world that is very far removed from ours in West Yorkshire. (Although Fazz is still very concerned about the cats that are gathering on his road in great number... They killed a wood pigeon last week dont you know?!?) Luckily it seems that 'Gang' video games have been doing a booming trade over the last 15 years so we've picked two games this week to give us a little insight into being a gang member in Far East Asia. Representing the Yakuza is Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (2023, PS5) which...2025-03-031h 02Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca100: 'The 50 Best Selling Video Games Of All Time' Draft4.25 days... that's how much time you're never getting back if you've listened to every minute of the first 99 episodes of Living La Vita Loca podcast. Think about how much you could have done with your life... We won't lie. That's absolutely on you if you have... Whilst we're at it though, we may as well remove another 1 of your hard earned hours spent on Earth with our 100th episode special!! We have carefully prepared a spreadsheet (much to Rich's joy), drafted in a guest (thank you Jack!) and sourced an unworldly amount of Haribo to bring you... 'The 50 Best Selling...2025-02-241h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca99: Bloodborne (PS4) vs Dark Souls III (PS4)"Welcome to Anarchy 99" is a quote from the stellar 2002 movie, XXX starring Vin Diesel and Samuel L. Jackson. It can also be used to introduce the 99th episode of Living La Vita Loca Podcast. Wait...do you guys remember when Samuel L. Jackson did that movie "51st State" with Robert Carlyle? When was that? 2001? Maaan... Samuel L did some trash around then huh?!? We won't lie... someone has left the dummy who's never played a 'Soulsborne' video game to do the blurb for this episode and he's just filibustering at this point. Luckily, we do have two semi-competent humans starring...2025-02-171h 11Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca95: Wreckfest (PC), Formula 1 (PS1) & Formula 1: Championship Edition (PS3)Hi podfans Sometimes one of those episodes rolls along where both LLVL cohosts share kindred opinion on a hobby or a genre and it's a reet good love in! Well, what about when we're in lockstep about something we feel much less kindly about... This week as part of #DryveJanuary (Patent still pending. Probably. Somewhere?) we're getting behind the wheel of some F1 games and attempting to not fall asleep from ultimate painstaking boredom. Perhaps if we're actively taking part in the race, it won't be so dull... right? Pulling into the pit(stop) of despair is Fazz who will...2025-01-2049 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca94: Daytona USA 2001 (Dreamcast), 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker (Game Cube) & Logitech G CloudHey Podracers Everyone remembers those timeless lyrics from the Team America movie right? "America! F*&k yeah! Coming again to save the mutha-TRUCKING Day-TONA yeah!" We know what youre thinking... "those aren't the right words!" And you'd be right to think that but why is it a relevant play on words??? Because this week we're covering Daytona USA 2001 (2001, Sega Dreamcast) and 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker (2002, Nintendo Gamecube) as part of #DryveJanuary (Patent pending). See, it works on so many levels... Two Sega AM2 arcade racer ports brought to home consoles highlighting the American dream: Truck racing and Speedway! What's more...2025-01-1339 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca93: Sega Rally (Sega Saturn), Dirt Rally 2.0 & EA Sports WRC (Xbox)Happy 2025 podfans and welcome to Dry-ve January! We're putting the pedal to the metal this month to provide you with reviews from popular racing video games throughout the years. After a quick catch up from our festive break, we barrel (roll) straight into one of our favourite racing formats, Rally driving. Fazz has spent a lot of time recently catching up (during in-game races and in reality) on a genre he loves but has lapsed on the last few years. What better way to ease himself back in than by trying to answer an extremely emotive/difficult question for fans...2025-01-061h 01Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca92: Our 2024 Reviews Retro RankedHi Podfans! So we're finally here... after 113 (ish) video game reviews in 2024, we're ready to pick a winner of every score bracket between 0 and 10. Rich has brought a clipboard and everything. It couldn't be more official! We won't give any bracket winners away in the blurb but keep an ear out for important conversations that help us decide such as: "How much % of sausage meat are we?" "MULLIGAN!" "You say your brain, I say my brain..." "Leifthrasir is pronounced with a South African accent right?" There can only be one game to rule (or is that ruler?!?) each score bracket...2024-12-232h 03Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca91: COD MW2 Remastered (PS4), Antstream Arcade (Xbox Series) and Retro Gaming Recommended Reading!Ho ho ho Podfans Or should we say CODfans? Our last review podcast of the year sees us serve up a festive buffet of gaming goodness. Rich plumbs for a more contemporary affair with Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (PS4), a bloated title for bloated holiday stomachs. Is this remaster worthy of the base game or do we wish that we'd swapped it with the original disc and placed it in the freezer with an entire PS3 console as Fazz once did? Yes, that really did happen... Whilst Rich has the modern side of gaming covered, Fazz dumps...2024-12-1650 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca90: Tearaway (PS Vita), Patapon (PSP)Patapatapatapon... patapatapatapon... Is that the gentle sound of rain against the window during the UK's stormy season or is it the rhythmic drumbeat of a 2007 PSP game from Japan Studio? Likely, it's both but only one is really welcome here at Living La Vita Loca and we know you didn't come for a review of the s*&t weather! We've gone big this week and by big we mean rather small as both of our featured games are story driven adventures with diminutive characters being controlled by quasi-deity's in the sky... Rich rips through Tearaway (2013, PS Vita) whilst Fazz beats...2024-12-0950 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca89: Mortal Kombat (PS Vita), The Warriors (PSP)Hi there groovy podboppers We're hitting two heavyweight handheld ports this week which both have legitimate claims of being in the top 25 games of each of their respective platforms. First up is the annoyingly named Mortal Kombat (2012, PS Vita) which is actually the 9th entry of the series... Go figure. This soft reboot was well regarded as one of the best fighting games for the Vita. Is it still legendary today or is it just a mere mortal 12 years later? Can Rich's eyes handle the pale, meaty graphics or will his hands give out first with "Vita cramps?" (02:30) As a...2024-12-0147 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca88: Punch Out!! (NES), Super Punch Out!! (SNES) Beast Wrestler (Mega Drive)Hi podbeasts Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! Did any of you watch Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul? Allegedly over 100 million people did. We didn't. We dont even know what a 'Jake Paul' is?!? You just can't trust a man with 2 first names. It's a universal law. Fazz chose to play Punch Out!! (1987...2024-11-2648 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca87: Medievil Resurrection (PSP), Frobisher Says! (PS Vita) & More Demo Disc dabblesHi Poddogs, In this episode we're inviting you to 'rub an unfeasibly long sausage dog' in a dead hero's crypt. It's exactly as it sounds we're afraid... Before we do any of that, we spend some time discussing demo discs once again. This leads to the age old question... Who or what is Net Yaroze and is he friends with The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha?!? The reason we're banging on about demo discs again is that one of of our games is effectively a tech demo for the PS Vita, Frobisher Says! (2012) and the other is a...2024-11-1747 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca86: Bioshock Remastered (Xbox), Trepang² (PC)Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! In March, we walked through GQ's Best 100 Video Games and Fazz was appalled to learn how few had played. He's already taken care of a couple of candidates this year and decided it was time to take on a very popular game he, somehow, knows extremely little...2024-11-111h 07Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca85: Half Minute Hero (PSP), Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (PS Vita)Hi Podfans We're powering our PSP and PS Vita this week with two games that have a bit of genre fusion occurring... Over in 'PSP Plaza' we have Half Minute Hero (2009, PSP), a part RPG, RTS, SHMUP and action adventure all thrown into one title. Fazz has never really played anything like it on the PSP before and well... we're not sure he's played a better game on the PSP... ever! Managing to cram so many genre twists into a 12 hour handheld experience indicates someone used their time better in the game development than the Time Goddess does just raking...2024-11-0356 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca84: Ace Attorney Investigations (PS4), LOZ: Majora's Mask (N64), Prof Layton & Curious Village (NDS)Hi Podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we all pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host (and special guest this week!). We then review said game on the podcast and ask our other pod pals to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! This week, we invited Fiona back on the pod to defend the honour of the Ace Attorney series after Fazz registered his inconclusive review of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney last year. The evidence presented by the defence? Ace...2024-10-291h 48Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca83: 'Living La Vita Loca Murder Mystery Incorporated'Hi podfans We had a puzzle on our hands this week... Who would help guide the pod as Rich remains under the weather?!? Hopefully he'll be back soon but in the meantime, Fazz fires up the Mystery Machine and drags Sally, his video game-phobic wife, along for the ride to deliver you some murder mystery merriment. Whilst we wouldn't ever claim to be great at solving crimes ourselves (we once had a goldfish outsmart us), we do make a pretty great team when it comes to talking absolute gubbins sat on our sofa together . We employ this skill to sleuth...2024-10-2052 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca82: Guitar Hero World Tour (PS2) & "Feel Good Fortnightly"Hi podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review... or at least that's what SHOULD be happening?!? Alas, Rich is metaphorically under the weather this week leaving Fazz to steer alone through choppy seas caused by Autumnal changes. Do the long dark evenings leave you with an impending sense of doom and gloom? Fear not as we spread a "...2024-10-1334 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca81: Freedom Wars (PS Vita), Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars (PSP), XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (PC)What are "War Adjacent" video games? Certainly not something we just made up on an amateur podcast, no sir. But let's say that the 'War Adjacent Video Game' awards did exist, how would this weeks games fair in the best 'War Adjacent Video Game ever' category? First up for selection, Crrrrrraazzy Taxi: Fare Wars (PSP), a faithful port of Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2. Did Fazz have any idea this port existed until 2 weeks ago? No. Does that matter? Maybe not it seems. The meat of this weeks sandwich is a review of XCOM2: War of the Chosen by our...2024-10-071h 10Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca80: GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City (PS3), Duke Nukem Forever (PC), Brutal Legend (PC)Hi podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we all pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host (and special guest this week!). We then review said game on the podcast and ask our other pod pals to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! Haikers guest stars this week with a review of Brutal Legend, a 2009 Jack Black action adventure/RTS vehicle. Would the Stardew Valley cast survive in a world we describe as "Too F*!@#%g Metal"? Rich fights his way...2024-10-011h 35Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca79: Gradius Collection (PSP), Neo Geo Heroes Ultimate Shooting (PSP)You want PSP shmups? We got PSP shmups! You want all time classic video gaming series? We got all time classic video gaming series! You want crazy-ass sand lion enemies just constantly comin' at ya bro?! You don't?? Well we don't blame you. It's psychologically terrifying... We're not messing about this week (not the whole time). We're shooting from the hip, elbow, belly button... anywhere we can take aim from really. Target: Gradius Collection (PSP, 2006) Operative: Fazz Target: Neo Geo Heroes Ultimate Shooting (PSP, 2010) Operative: Rich Target: Full engagement and enjoyment of the listening public Let's hope we're better at...2024-09-2345 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca78: Syphon Filter (PS1), Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (PSP), Unit 13 (PS Vita)Attention Pod Tac squad! This week, we're infiltrating the 3rd person shooter genre with the help of our cutting edge remote technology... The er... PSP and erm... PS Vita... But never fear! It is far from mission over before it's even begun as our holy hand(held) grenades actually give out quite an explosive kick when it comes to performance across our reviews. Well... some of them anyway... First up, Fazz plays through Syphon Filter (PS1 via remote play, 1999), the very first game he reviewed with his friends at the age of 11 on tape cassette. The tapes are out there...2024-09-1657 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca77: Riveting Retro Gaming Roundup ReportHi Podfans. Well here it is... an actual retro gaming podcast for SOME... MANY... ALL (?)... of your retro gaming needs... We're off to the Leeds International Beer Festival this weekend. That's good. Fazz lost the previously recorded podcast. That's bad. We're here to talk about current retro gaming news instead. That's good. Rich is less than invested by the proposed current retro gaming news. That's bad. M.U.S.H.A (Sega Mega Drive, 1990), Commando (Capcom Arcade, 1985) and Street Fighter (Capcom Arcade 1987) get super speedy reviews. That's good. We are very ill informed and vastly against the clock to jump...2024-09-0931 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca76: Final Fantasy Rebirth (PS5), Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (Nintendo Switch)As Fatboy Slim once span... "Back once again for the renegade master" and by "renegade master", he obviously meant "a retrogaming podcast after a week's holiday". And by "retrogaming" we obviously mean "a gaming podcast that reviews games from 2024 but their original iterations are between 25-50 years old". Are you still with us? Potentially not. Someone who is definitely with us this week is our resident (literally, she owns in the pod house) Final Fantasy special guest expert, Fiona. She has played Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5) recently and tells all. Is it as good as all of the hype...2024-09-031h 06Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca75.25 Handheld HolidayHi everyone. Welcome to Living La Vita boat-cast, for all of your gaming knees... What's the best way to follow up last week where we had a record number of podcast listens and listeners? (Thank you all so, so much by the way!) Leaving you all wanting more by going on holiday for a week obviously! That's right, there is no official episode of Living La Vita Loca podcast this week for the first time in 75 weeks. We know... we have commitment issues! So please accept this short "WE WERE ON A BREAK!!!" message in absence of the pod. Or...2024-08-2302 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca75: Evercade EXP & FiresharkHi Podfans The M42 motorway runs north east from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire to just south west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire. We just thought you should know that (00:52). We also think you should know that the Evercade series of consoles from Blaze Entertainment are pretty awesome. With the company due to release their latest upgraded Evercade cartridges and consoles next week (although breaking news is that the handheld EXP-R has been delayed to November) we ask "Should you buy an Evercade in 2024?" We break down costs, pros and cons of owning a console that provides a genuine method of game preservation...2024-08-1944 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca74: Borderlands (PS3), Borderlands 2 (PS Vita)Hey Podskags! We're not above trying to be popular okay? We are happy to get down in the Pandoran dirt and release a Borderlands podcast to coincide with a tent pole summer blockbuster movie. What we're not too happy to see is that the movie looks like it is going to flop harder than a Claptrap unit being (rightfully) booted off a cliff... Maybe everyone is just Bored-erlands right now? Let's forget about all of that and get back to where it all began... Borderlands is a 2009 action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software. The thought of...2024-08-1256 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca73: Thank Goodness You're here! (Switch), Marvel Ult Alliance (PSP), Dungeon Hunter Alliance (Vita)Hi podfans. Thank Goodness You're Here... Literally. An alliance is "a relationship where people or separate groups come together to work towards a common goal". According to the internet... somewhere... we think. So this week we thought it would be great to bring together two 'alliance' games to work alongside each other to make a retro handheld gaming podcast! Our game links become more tenuous by the week... First up Dungeon Hunter: Alliance, a hack and slash action RPG developed by Gameloft in 2011 for the PS Vita and a remake of a 2009 mobile game... surely that's a winning team combination...2024-08-0554 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca72: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Pilot Wings, Pilot Wings 64Hi podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! Which tenuous link should we use this week to string together our randomly chosen games? Falling? Yes that seems to work... Is falling from a rope ladder hanging from a helicopter a legitimate way to leave the atmosphere in Pilot Wings (1990, SNES)? How many Star...2024-07-2959 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca71: Olympic Gold (Sega MegaDrive), DecAthlete (Sega Saturn), Int. Track and Field (Nintendo Gameboy)We now declare the 2024 Living La Vita Loca Olympiad open! And what scenes we have in the retro gaming community today as 3 titans of Olympic video game history come together to do battle. First out of the starting blocks, we have Olympic Gold, a Barcelona 92' Olympic offering on the Sega Mega Drive. It brings back great memories for Fazz. Or some memories at least. Pirouetting onto the podium next is DecAthlete (or Athlete Kings in Europe) for the Sega Saturn, an early 3D polygon showing that gets Rich's heart rate pumping. Finally, diving into the review pool with no...2024-07-2255 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca70: Ninja Golf, Mario Golf, Everybody's Golf (Hot Shots Golf) with Paddy GunnGolf is a good walk spoiled.’ – Mark Twain We couldn't agree more Mr Twain so let's skip the walk and play some golf video games instead! We've got a special guest starring in our pro-am tournament this week, Paddy Gunn, host of The Swiss Football podcast and @swiss stadia social account. - Paddy tees us off with Mario Golf: Toadstool tour (2003, Nintendo Gamecube) and Mario Golf: Super Rush (2021, Nintendo Switch) - Fazz finds it hard to 'chip in' anything useful about Everybody's Golf 1&2 (2005, 2008 Sony PSP) - Rich rounds off our... well... round... with a quick bump-and-chase through Ninja Golf (1990, Atari) Fina...2024-07-171h 15Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca69: Street Fighter 6 (PC), Esports, Handheld Heaven, 'Thnks fr th mmrs' (and podcast support!)Hi podfans! Due to unforseen circumstances, we are subbing in a slightly shorter remote pod this week before resuming normal service next week. We're using the break to take time to thank all of the listeners we've had so far and look forward to all of the listens yet to come. Fazz tells us why he's in Handheld Heaven right now We also take some time to demonstrate how very little we know about Esports. Special thanks go out to @veggiehotdug for his insights into Esports and why they matter. Finally Rich let's us know why Street Fighter 6 is appearing...2024-07-0837 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca68: Devil May Cry (PS2), Burning Rangers (Sega Saturn)Hi podfans Welcome to another edition of 'Freeplay Fortnightly' where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! After a little chat about backlog evasion, Rich leaps into action with the 1998 Sega Saturn action game, Burning Rangers. Is this the best 'Soniclike' (trademark pending) game you've never played? Whilst the Burning Rangers focus on saving others from fires, Fazz chooses a protagonist who...2024-07-0145 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca66: Night Trap/Sewer Shark (Sega 1992), Bloodshore/The Quarry (Xbox 2020s) & Interactive (Hi)StoriesIs it a game? Is it a movie? No... its some kind of freak show in the middle called Full Motion Video. We were inspired to take a dive into the history of interactive FMV games by a random purchase from the Xbox store by Fazz. Where did they come from? (Night Trap, 1992, Sega CD) (Sewer Shark, 1992, Sega CD) Where are they now? (Bloodshore, 2021, Xbox Series S) And what is the future of interactive gaming? Is it in photorealistic interactive storytelling (The Quarry, 2022, Xbox Series S) As usual, we probably don't have the definitive answers but we do answer important...2024-06-171h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca65: Lemmings (PSP), Godzilla: DAMM (GameCube), Brian Lara Cricket Series in 'Little, Large & Lara!'Hi Podfans It's the showdown that you didn't know you needed: One of the most ported games of all time with cute suicidal protagonists. One of the most famous cinematic characters of all time with a desire for destruction/redemption. And Brian Lara (who Fazz reckons could take Godzilla out with a bat on a dying wicket). Lemmings are 6cm average height. Godzilla is upto 150m tall. Brian Lara hit 400 not out vs England in 2004. Who has the better video game this week? We decide. Enjoy the pod.2024-06-101h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca62: Portal Collection (Nintendo Switch), Typing of the Dead (Windows) & Recommended MediaHey podgoers We've got some real abandonment issues this week... Before we get to psychoanalysing that, we spend some time celebrating some of our favourite podcasts and YouTube content providers with effectively an IOU starter. And gravy. Thicc gravy. Now, about those abandonment issues... First up, Rich wiggles his worryingly strong digits in the direction of Typing of the Dead (2000, Microsoft Windows) which is available as abandonware online right now. It took a lot of brains from Sega to develop something this cool. Mmm... Brains... brrraaaaiiinnnssss... wait is that how you spell brrraaaaiiinnnssss?!? We'd better ask the guy with the...2024-05-191h 08Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca61: Locoroco 2 (PSP), Sonic The Hedgehog AGAIN! (Sega Master System) & 'Sequel Samey, Sequel Lamey?'Hi everyone and welcome to RE-living La Vita Loca... wait, hang on a minute! Yes that's right, we're so unoriginal we're running it back on a few franchises we have hit already... but for good reason! Firstly, we're heading back a whole 4 episodes to dip back into the world of Sonic The Hedgehog. Just weeks after 'murdering' the Blue Blur, we're bringing him back through popular (some) demand with Rich checking out Sonic 1 & 2 AGAIN (Sega Master System). Will childhood memories be spiked? Next, we head back to look at something we (sorta) reviewed over a year ago in Episode 12... Locoroco...2024-05-1352 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca58: Do Something Unexpected! Raiden IV Challenge, Fortnite, Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo Switch)SURPRISE POD FANS!!! We bet you didn't see that coming did ya? Well thats not the only shock in store this week as we asked each other to 'Do Something Unexpected' in our latest Freeplay Fortnightly episode. Whatever that meant was left up to each co-host and it seems that this particular podcast isn't very retro at all. First order of business... a very surprising, unplanned high score SHMUP battle broke out between your co-hosts on Raiden IV X Mikado (Nintendo Switch). Who would come out on top and would the battle threaten the very existence of the podcast due...2024-04-211h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca56: Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX (GB Colour), Balatro (Switch) & remastering a classicHo now Podders Welcome to our Freeplay Fortnightly episode where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! This week we review two classics. It just so happens that one is only 40 days old and one is about 9300 days old. And that was all just a dream too... (30 year old spoiler alert!) Rich takes on the new Poker-themed roguelike Balatro and does a...2024-04-071h 07Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca55: Killzone Liberation (PSP), Killzone Mercenary (PS Vita) and Isometric games: A view to a thrill?Hi Podghast warriors This week we're dipping our toes into the area of Alpha Centurai where the planets of Vekta and Helghan reside. Thats right, we're fully inside the 'Killzone'. A series, it turns out, we know very little about. But we're not sure that's actually our fault... We're taking an (isometric) view on the battle between the warring ISA/Helghast factions through our Sony handhelds. Fazz is aggressively assaulting Killzone Liberation on PSP whilst Rich is our gun for hire targeting Killzone Mercenary on the PS Vita. Finally we disagree on which angle is the best to view games...2024-04-021h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca54: Hotline Miami (Nintendo Switch) Starfox 64/Lylat Wars (N64)Hi Murderous Podronauts Welcome to our Freeplay Fortnightly episode where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review said game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! This week there was fear in the camp we'd picked the same game for absolutely no reason other than we are just small terrified mammals at heart. Speaking of small terrified animals, Rich sent some into galactic battle in the guise of Starfox 64 (N64) although...2024-03-2447 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca53: Dead or Alive 5+ (PS Vita), Soul Calibur Broken Destiny (PSP) and DOA Paradise (PSP)Hi Pod Peeps "This must be just like living in (Dead or Alive) paradise and I desperately, desperately want to go home..." David Lee Roth. This week we take a dive into Dead or Alive, understand the allure of Soul Calibur and we do it all through the power of our aging but beloved Sony handhelds. Rich loves a fighting game. Fazz loves debauchery. There's a bucketful of both in this week's pod. Do they make for good bedfellows in a video game?! Enjoy the pod.2024-03-1854 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca52: GQ's Best 100 Video Games DraftHappy Birthday to you... Let's not do a game review. Why not look at a long list by GQ? Happy Birthday to yooouuuuuu! Hi Pod Party Well we made it... a whole year of podcasting that nobody asked for. How did we celebrate (nobody asks)? We take GQ magazine's 100 greatest video games of all time article from 2023 and draft our own squads of '10 best games we've played' and '5 games we want to play but have never played'. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-video-games-all-time Why not check out the article and answer this question: Which games would you...2024-03-101h 31Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca51: Motorstorm Arctic Edge (PSP), Motorstorm RC (Vita) and More-torstorm please!Greetings Podders. Motorstorm dropped as a launch title for the PlayStation 3 in 2006/2007 and took the world... by... storm?!? Yeah... That probably works. But what then? Well after a well received follow up in the form of Pacific Rift, the series went the only place it could go next, the PSP... And the PS2?! Arctic edge-y? You bet. The last time Motorstorm was spotted in the wild was in an RC version on the PS Vita in 2012, over 12 years ago. And according to Rich... it was barely even an overcast cloud of a game. Whatever happened to Motorstorm and will it...2024-03-0449 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca44: Final Fantasy Continued... Tactics: WOTL (PSP), Crisis Core: Reunion (Switch), XV (PS4)Hello Podgoers. Welcome to Part 2 of our Final Fantasy Extravaganza. We continue to annoy and antagonise Rich's wife Fiona, our resident Final Fantasist, who in turn decides to Trojan horse the pod with her own agenda. She's a regular Yuffie Kisaragi alright. The Final Fantasy series does a great job wandering around aimlessly (just an opinion!) and so, we too, will meander away from the mainline games this week and take a look at the following maelstrom of fantastical voyages: - Final Fantasy Tactics: WOTL (PSP) - Final Fantasy XV Pocket (PS4) and sneaky Final Fantasy XV (PS4) - Final...2024-01-141h 23Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca43: Final Fantasy IV (DS), VI (SNES), XVI (PS5), our FF Faves and tropes.Ho there fair Podmaidens! Happy 2024 to the lot of ya. We hope you all had a festive period full of frivolity. To continue the theme of overindulgence, we've decided to super size our pod this time and hit the Final Fantasy franchise hard. We've invited Rich's wife, Fiona, along for the journey. A bigger fellowship means more FF coverage after all. Over the next 2 pods we will delve deep into the Square Enix series. This week we take a detailed look at: - Final Fantasy IV 3D (Nintendo DS) - Final Fantasy XVI (PS5) - Final Fantasy VI (SNES Mini) ...2024-01-081h 23Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca42: 'TwitchPlaysPokemon' 10th Anniversary: An Audio NovelisationHello there, Podfans. Welcome to the world of (Twitchplays)Pokemon! 10 years ago, a simple social experiment started on the streaming channel Twitch created by a freelance Australian computer programmer. The premise: Play through and complete Pokemon Red. How? By allowing followers on the Twitch stream to enter commands (A, B, Direction, Start) for the protagonist to follow. Sounds easy, right? It was anything but. Over 1.1 million viewers tuned in over an 18-day period with over 80,000 people live during its peak. Every one of these viewers had the ability to input actions. Inevitably, Chaos ensued. 10 years later, we've decided to reissue...2024-01-0136 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca41: Our 2023 Reviews Retro RankedHappy End of Calendar Year to All! T'is the season to provide others with gifts and here is ours, to you, the listening public. The kicker is that the gift is an already chewed dog toy wrapped in tinfoil and it's not even completely wrapped either. The tinfoil is falling off and it's inadvertently choked some of the local wildlife... where was I heading with this again??? Anyway... This year, since we started our podcast, we have reviewed 94 different games, consoles and even a viral infection. We have ranked them all arbitrarily out of 10 and we spend the best part...2023-12-181h 44Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca40: Retro Gamer presents: The Handheld Gaming CollectionHi retrofans This week, we take some time out of our busy gaming schedules to do some reading. But it's not just any old book... This year Retro Gamer released a special bookazine dedicated to Handheld Gaming so we decided to take a deep dive into the history of handheld gaming and ask some questions: - Which is the best handheld console ever made according to Retro Gamer and us too! - Which is your favourite Handheld you've played and why? - Which retro Handheld would you love to own now? You can buy the special bookazine here: https://www...2023-12-111h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca39: Daxter (PSP), Gravity Rush (PS Vita) and SandwichesHey pod fans We're exactly three quarters of the way through our first year of podcasting so its definitely time to talk about our favourite sandwiches. Why have we waited so long?!? Okay okay... we're really here to review Daxter (PSP) and Gravity Rush (PS Vita) and at least half of these games are better than a generic every day sandwich. In fact... could one of these games be one of the best handheld games ever??? Rounding out the lunchtime meal deal this week... - Is this the best collectable process ever? - How do you go about dodging yourself?! ...2023-12-0343 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca38: SEGA Game Gear Micro and Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney (DS/Xbox Game Pass)Take that! podfans... Or at least take this podcast and get in ya! It's our Freeplay Fortnightly podcast. We take 2 games, we refuse to tell each other what we have played and then we use each others spoken review to give the game an accurate arbitrary score. Stuff under the teeny tiny microscope this week are the Game Gear Mini (Blue) and Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney. Objection?!? Well you don't have to listen if you don't want to but then you'd miss out on... - Edgar who? - Why is it so small? - Sexy artwork?!? Enjoy the pod.2023-11-271h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca37: Sega Mega Drive collection (PSP), EA Replay (PSP) and a Collection of Complicated CompilationsHey Podrockers! This week we delve into the murky world of 'classic' collections as we use our retro handhelds from the 15 years ago to play games from 30 years ago. Rich decides to surprise Fazz with a couple of consoles he manages to cram into an average sized pencil case. Like some sort of modern day Agahnim. If you love Mega Drive/Genesis, this pod is definitely for you except it also sortve isn't... What else? Oh yeah... this... - What did Rich do to piss off his parents? - Just how mini is the Game Gear Mini? - Are some...2023-11-1955 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca36: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch) and What will Ninten-do?Lets-a-go podfans! Mario Kart 8 is almost 10 years old. Yes we know y'all want to cancel the Wii U but it produced a bunch of great Nintendo exclusives that were then ported to the Switch and they really (unsurprisingly) took off... Mario Kart 8 deluxe has sold over 57 million units since its release and is the best selling Nintendo Switch game of all time. With the release of wave 6 dlc, we take a look back at the Mario Kart series and decide is the 96 track monster offering the best Mario Kart of all time? We also muse over... - What will Ninten-do...2023-11-131h 12Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca35: Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz (PS Vita) and Ape Escape: Ape Academy (PSP)Ooh ooh ahh ahh AHHH! That's how apes say 'Good morrow Podfans'... Probably. On the pod this week, we spend time hanging out with our (pri)mates on our Sony handhelds. We're pretty sure that these consoles are a little more advanced than the tools that monkeys and apes can use but that doesn't necessarily mean the IQ level of your podhosts is much higher... Under the microscope in Specter's lab this week are Ape Escape: Ape Academy (PSP) and Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz (PS Vita). Other absolute trash we touch on includes... - Monkey Marathon at Angkor 'Wanky...2023-11-0542 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca34: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1), House of the Dead Overkill (Wii) and Paratopic!Happy Halloween pod-tergeists! It's (Freaky) Freeplay Fortnightly at LLVL HQ and it's time for us to haunt your dreams. Not as much as an 89p game called Paratopic has haunted Fazz this week. That would be really mean of us. If you manage to make your way past THAT review then you'll get to some juicy, squashy organic goodness as Rich serves up a treat with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1). Then for your final course, we pump you full with a payload of House of the Dead Overkill (Wii). We also dig (a grave) into... - Who likes...2023-10-301h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca33: Soldier Blade (PC Engine/Turbografx-16) Fazz learns a Shmup LIVEHey Retropodders Its Freeplay Fortnightly (We will get some sort of branding to stick on this) here at LLVL HQ and Fazz is always banging on about Rich being steeped in video gaming lore so it's high time he proved it... Rich takes us on a small learning journey through Shmup caravan modes dragging Fazz along for the ride on the undercarriage. Think Sideshow Bob in Cape Feare but with less hair. Firstly we take a quick look at Vampire Survivors (Switch) which apparently is great for learning the movement required for Shmup work and then Rich teaches Fazz how...2023-10-2252 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca32: EA Sports BIG - SSX On Tour (PSP), Def Jam Vendetta (PS Vita) and NFL Street 3 (PSP)Big up yo'self podfans. Or should that be EA Sports BIG up yo'self? Yes. We're back in the never ending EA well again this week. Who knew that Electronic Arts had taken over the entire world and owned every publishing house east of Santa Monica?! Oh you guys knew? I guess thats fair. Just because a giant amorphous blob has splattered all over the game publishing landscape and absorbed everything doesn't mean its necessarily a terrible blob all the time... the EA Sports BIG series is one of those times. We fondly look back at the quasi extreme sports video...2023-10-1657 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca31: Meta Quest 2 review and Beer Tasting with Aaron HefferinHi Podbods. This episode is our now regular biweekly freeplay which is a bit of a nontraditional takeover. On the pod, we continue hosting duties with @aaronheffefin once again in the guest seat. Aaron is a very polite guest and he's decided to bring a brilliant selection of beer for us to sample. We spend time breaking down Aaron's newfound love of beer and we ask what he's currently got ranked atop of the leaderboard on his #Untapped app. In the second half of the pod, we switch from handheld to headheld and we take the opportunity to review the...2023-10-081h 20Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca30: Earth Defense Force 2 (PS Vita), Ace Combat X (PSP) and Best Defence Combat momentsHi podefenders! Your planet needs you to listen to this very important public service announcement... about Combat defence games! We've invited along our friend, who's actually flown a plane, Aaron Hefferin. He specialises more in beer nowadays so we've decided to mix both of these things together on the pod. Earth Defense Force 2 (PS Vita) and Ace Combat X (PSP) get put through their paces in our review section whilst we all take a well drilled 5 minutes to talk about our favourite 'Combat defence moments in media'. Finally we consider: - Buh?!? - Kaiju? Goji? Goju??? - Wheres your head...2023-10-021h 10Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca29: Pokemon Yellow (GB) and Super Mario World (SNES/Switch)Hey podgoers! Its-a-us, The LLVL Bros! Who saw this coming? In our now fortnightly freeplay week, both Fazz and Rich pick some of the heaviest hitters around... Pokemon Yellow (Gameboy) and Super Mario World ( Via Switch, Nintendo Online). We won't lie... these are the kind of games we love chatting on about endlessly. Almost as endless as the first time you enter Mount Moon... We manage to cram as much as we can about these two games into an hour of podcasting whilst also casting a critical eye over each of them. There's even enough time to ask... - What...2023-09-2400 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca28: WWE Smackdown vs Raw (PSP), Guacamelee (PS Vita) and Wrasslin'!Hi Podgoers. We're back in the spare room podbooth this week as Rich has recovered from Covid although Fazz is struggling with some lung goo of some type or other. We might need a cough button! This week we grapple with the past time of wrestling. We discover that we really like talking about wrestling even if we're not really experts in the field. It's almost like this is an amateur production... Up for review this week: WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007 (PSP) Guacamelee (PS Vita) We talk about our favourite wrestlers and favourite wrestling memories. We also ask important questions...2023-09-181h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca27: LEGO LOTR (PS Vita) and LEGO Indiana Jones: Original adventures (PSP)Hey ho, LEGO! Hey ho, LEGO! This week we take a look at the Telltale games LEGO series. Unfortunately this is another covid-esque podcast for us due to Rich's ongoing illness. Don't worry, we'll be "building back better" (it works on so many levels) soon enough but until then 'brick' with us... I'm really sorry. Anyway... Indy vs Gandalf, Marion vs Galadriel, Salah vs Bilbo baggins. Its a showdown for the ages (All 3 of them). LEGO Indiana Jones (PSP) and LEGO Lord of The Rings (PS Vita) get their secrets revealed, much to Frodos joy. Then we decide ONCE AND...2023-09-1051 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca26: Burnout Legends (PSP), Need For Speed Most Wanted (PS Vita) and Great gaming ages.Welcome to another edition of the podcast. This is the '2020 throwback where one of us has Covid-19 and we podcast like isolated amateurs' edition... Let's skip over that and throw it back even further... Let's throw it all the way back to 2005 when Burnout Legends (PSP) and Need for Speed: Most Wanted were released. Let's then throw it forward some of the way but not all of the way... Aim for 2012 where Need for Speed: Most Wanted remake (PS Vita) resides. After all that throwing, we've made a real cocktail of arcade racery goo which we hope you'll be...2023-09-0444 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca25: Ecco the Dolphin 2 (Sega MD), State of Emergency (PS2), Diablo IV (Xbox Series X)Hi Podgoers. Episode 25 sees us, once again, dip into our monthly secret freeplay week where both of the co-host's choose a game to review and our counterpart arbitrarily scores it out of 10 based on the accuracy/strength of our reviews. We're also joined once again by our good friend, Kyle Taylor who barely manages to stay awake during our reviews. Foreboding omens indeed! Nevermind. Let's see if other listeners find the games that we've picked this week interesting enough. Rich plumbs the depths of the ocean for his review, Ecco The Dolphin 2: The Tides of Time (Sega MD). Meanwhile Fazz...2023-08-2757 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca24: Madden 08' (PSP), 13' (PS Vita) NFL and Flag football with Kyle TaylorGreetings Podgoers This week, we continue our summer of sport at LLVL HQ and this time we are joined by @kyle.taylor.589583, British American Football Association Flag Commissioner. KT is a dear friend of ours who founded @leedssamurai where we all met many moons ago. We'll be using Kyle's wealth of knowledge about American Football to help us dig in on the Madden franchise. We take a look back at the series on our Sony handhelds and on a wider scale across the years. Finally, we discuss which are our favourite American Football games from the past. Pertinent questions this...2023-08-221h 14Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca23: Football Manager 05', 14', 17' (PSP/PS Vita/PC) and Football Fanship with Paddy GunnGrüezi Mitenand once again podgoers. This is part two of our odyssey through football fanship. We're once again joined by host of The 15 Minute Swiss Football Podcast and regular contributor to The Square Ball, Paddy Gunn. This week we start by talking about which football teams we support and why. And a lot of the time we are asking our teams 'JUST WHY?!?' We swiftly move on from supporting teams to managing teams and we take a look at the Championship/Football manager series. Under the lens are Football Manager Handheld (PSP), Football Manager Classic 2014 (PS Vita), Football M...2023-08-141h 17Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca22: FIFA (PSP/PS Vita) and Football Friendship with Paddy GunnGrüezi Mitenand Podgoers Welcome to part one of a special set of podcasts where we take an in depth look at the beautiful game through the lens of EA Sport's FIFA series. We've had to hit the transfer market for a big target man to help us out with some footballing knowledge. Luckily, we've managed to find Paddy Gunn on a Bosman hailing all the way from Switzerland. Paddy is an absolute expert in all things football with an extensive slate of work including some brilliant long forms in his hometown Leeds United fanzine, The Square Ball. Paddy is a...2023-08-081h 17Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca21: Outrun (Switch), Turnip Boy (Xbox Game Pass), Solar Striker (GB) and Dangan (GB)Hi Podgoers. Episode 21 sees us, once again, dip into our new monthly secret freeplay week where both of the co-host's choose a game to review and our counterpart arbitrarily scores it out of 10 based on the accuracy/strength of our reviews. Of course it would happen that both of us would try and cheat and pick 2 games to review this week! Fazz picked an Outrun port (switch) and a new classic Turnip Boy commits tax evasion (Game Pass) whilst Rich stayed Gameboy focussed with his look back on Solar Striker and Dangan. This week we also try to answer... ...2023-07-3154 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca20: PlayStation TV, Muramasa Rebirth (PS Vita) and Razer KishiOlà Podfans... This week on the podcast, we review the PS Vita non-handheld. Sort of. In a way... The little known Playstation TV lands on the shores of Living La Vita Loca and Rich spends some time telling us all about it and its capabilities. Fazz starts saving up for one immediately. Rich also reviews Muramasa Rebirth for the Vita through the eyes of his PSTV. Angry that we haven't talked handhelds this week? Well never fear... The Razer Kishi is here. Fazz tells us all about his new handheld toy for his phone and why you should probably buy o...2023-07-2441 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca19: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (PS Vita), Metal Gear Acid (PSP) and our Metal Gear best bits!Hey Podgoers Snake? Snake?!? SNNNNNAAAAAAKKKKEEEE!!!! Ahhh noone likes to see that game over screen but its worth it for the colonel getting all up in his feelings about our favourite reptilian sleuth. This week on the pod we dip our toes into the murky world of tactical espionage action and talk Metal Gear Solid. We spend time reviewing Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (PS Vita) and Metal Gear Acid (PSP). We then saunter through some of our best bits of the storied franchise. We also talk about... - Revels. Which is your favourite and can you find it? - Renaissance...2023-07-171h 32Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca18: Little Big Planet (PSP/PSVita/PS3), Creativity and Video Game MascotsHi there podgoers. This week we break down what makes Little Big Planet great (and not so great) as a franchise through our experiences on the PSP and PS Vita. Sackboy joy or Sackboy annoy? We decide. We also decide which are our favourite video game mascots and why? What even makes a mascot? Also... - Fazz asks Rich 'What is a Pico8?' - Why are we segueing so much? - What will physically hit Fazz next?! Find out the answers to the above and more on this weeks episode. Enjoy the pod. https://linktr.ee/livinglavitalocapodcast2023-07-1000 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca17: Lion King (Sega) and Overboard! (Shipwreckers) (PS1)Hi Pod fans. So it's here... our new series... FREEPLAY WEEK. We have taken two mystery games, played the shit out of them and brought them to the rectangular table at which we sit each week in Rich's house. - Which games have we played? - Are they any good? - What are we even talking about here?! It's a real puzzle but rest assured that once you listen, you'll never unlisten. That's a fact. Enjoy the pod.2023-07-031h 00Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca16: PSP FPS vs PS Vita SHMUPSHey ho Podders. This week on the pod we are going to war! Rich is slinging thousands of bullets through the method of shmups on the PS Vita whilst Fazz is using his WWII PSP style rifle to fire back. There's probably only one winner here... Games up for consideration this week are: Dariusburst Saviour Chronicles (Vita) Gundemoniums (Vita) VS Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (PSP) Brothers in Arms: D-Day (PSP) Other things we question this week... • Is it acceptable to mix Squashies and high end Scotch? • A CARTRIDGE PEN?!? • Are big breasted anime bunnies that shoot bullets at you actually 'a lit...2023-06-261h 27Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca15: Lumines (PSP) Grim Fandango, Virtues Last Reward (Both PS Vita) and Accountable Retail TherapyHello Podgoers This week on the pod we get into last week's pod a bit as Rich has unfinished business with his point and click adventure games Grim Fandango Remastered and Virtues Last Reward on PS Vita. Fazz spends a solid 25 minutes talking about all things Lumines (PSP). Or whatever the hell its called! Also we discuss: - How loud should The Second World War be? - Why do we love it when video games read our minds? - How much is too much when it comes to buying video games?! If you like what you hear, please pass us...2023-06-1957 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca14: Valve Steam Deck, Point & Click and Pigeons with HaikersHey Castcrew This is a pretty fun pod coming at ya this week. We welcome our friend James Haikney (Haikers) who is steeped in video gaming lore. We specifically get into it on Point and Click games and Haikers brand new Steam Deck amongst many other things such as: - Is Rich wanted by the transport police in Hungary? - What's a verb? - Y PS3 sad? We love it when a pal stops by to let us peek into their gaming life and we hope you do too. Enjoy the pod.2023-06-121h 31Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca13: Atari Flashback Classics (PS Vita), Parappa the Rapper (PSP) and Remake, Remaster, Repeat.Hey poddlepeople. Welcome back to Living La Vita Loca Podcast. We're definitely fine after our Slam Dunk pod. It didn't take 4 days to come around at all... Anyway... We start by reviewing the Atari Flashback Classics (PS Vita) and Parappa The Rapper (PSP). There's a THOROUGH spreadsheet involved for good measure. Check it out on our socials! Also this week on the pod we are asking the question: Why do we remaster and remake games? What is a remaster? What is a remake? Who is a remaster/remake?!?!? We get thoroughly confused on this pod and you're welcome to come...2023-06-071h 23Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca12: LIVE at Slam Dunk Festival 2023Hi Podpeople. Welcome to this very special edition of Living La Vita Loca Podcast or should we say LIVE-ing La Vita in the Loca-l Podcast. We're recording live from Slam Dunk Festival 2023 with friends who love punk rock alternative music AND video gaming too. How convenient. This week we're asking: - What's your personal favourite game ever? - What's your favourite video game add on ever? - Who are we looking forward to hearing at the festival? - How long are these queues? Seriously?!? This pod is a little off the wall and we're not even a little bit sorry...2023-05-291h 08Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca11: God Of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP), Persona 4 Golden (PS Vita) and Metacritical thinkingHey ho, Pod go! Episode 11 is all about the BEST RATED games on PSP and PS Vita according to Metacritic.com, God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP) and Persona 4 Golden (PS Vita). But are they actually the BEST games? Let's talk about it... This leads us into thinking 'What part of a game review REALLY matters?' Let us know what you think on our socials, email or hit us up on WhatsApp. Other considerations this week: • How much breakfast can you eat before you die? • How do you Google your bad life choices? • Are boob graphics still okay to tal...2023-05-221h 04Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca10: Ridge racer (PS Vita) vs Ridge Racer (PSP)?!?Hi podguys! This weeks pod is a short hit of Living La Vita goodness to match the short hop that Rich is making over to the continent this week. Thats right... its a holiday pod and we're firmly in chill out mode (which was nothing to do with the copious amounts of IPA we'd consumed). With half of the pod speeding across the channel in a train, we in turn, speed through the history of the Ridge Racer franchise reviewing Ridge Racer (PSP) and Ridge Racer (PS Vita). This won't get confusing. Credit to https://jalopnik.com/all-12-mainline-ridge-racer-games-ranked-1850219708 for...2023-05-1537 minLiving La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca9: Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PSP), Super Star Wars (PS Vita) & Star Wars Movies: Odds vs EvensEpisode 9: STAR WARS! And 'Faith Some More'. Heeyyyyyyy! Look... we're not above the status quo. We're happy to fall in line and talk about the "Star Wars" this week. We're hopeful that we might say something a bit different from others but if we don't, we're not sorry. There's only so much you can say about a bin can that rolls on wheels who basically is trolling a whole universe! R2D2 we're looking at you... This week is a Dantooine sized pod but we hit lots of pertinent points... - Odds or evens. What you saying?! - Whats your...2023-05-091h 45Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca8: Tony Hawks Underground 2 (PSP), Olli Olli (PS Vita) and Being Skate MatesEpisode 8: Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Olli Olli and Being Skate Mates. As Public enemy once said... "Turn it up! Bring the noise". And by noise they meant 'LLVL podcast'. This week on the pod we review Tony Hawk Underground 2 Remix (PSP) and Olli Olli (PS Vita) but not before we wax lyrical about the culture of skateboarding and how the THPS franchise has shaped our lives. We can't really skate but who cares? We LOVE the world skateboarding lives in so here's a love letter to being a skater boi in your mid 30s. Also on the pod... Did we...2023-05-021h 18Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca7: Tekken x Street Fighter (PS Vita), Tekken 5 (PSP) & 'Am I a good gamer?' with @drawnfromthemindHey ho, F*&k it, let's go! Classic set up to a classic pod... Welcome back to L.L.V.L where we had an absolute (hamster) ball of a time speaking with @drawnfromthemind, Nathan Baird this week about what makes a 'good gamer'. His views are very much his own... Firstly, we review Street Fighter X Tekken (PS Vita) and Tekken Dark Resurrection (PSP). People (Rich/Nath) who love fighting games vs person (Fazz) who loves the IDEA of fighting games. Who will win? The guys who are well versed in gaming... obviously. Other items we mull over... How...2023-04-251h 29Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca6: Wipeout Pure (PSP), Wipeout 2049 (PS Vita) and Rock-ing Racing Rivalries.Hey hey Podpeople. This week on the pod we get ready to do battle as we jump forward in time into the world of Wipeout. Rich is backing Wipeout 2048 on the PS Vita whilst Fazz is planning on riding Wipeout Pure on the PSP to victory. Will we come to blows like a Feisar craft getting hit with a homing missile??? The pod even SOUNDS futuristic this week. We definitely planned for the pod to sound tinny with a buzz in the background... *sideways glance*. Apologies. We'll do better next time. Other tit bits floating in the ether this week: ...2023-04-171h 15Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca5: COD BLOPS (PS Vita), 'Clang Clang Props' and Learning La Vita LocaYo podboppers! This week we move the emphasis away from reviewing our PSP and PS Vita back-catalogue and talk about how we have learned to play videogames over the years in the presence of great beer. Learning options we cover: • Tutorials • Manuals • YouTube • Game guides • Retro gaming arcades Also Rich reviews Call Of Duty: Black Ops Declassified. And when we say review... Well... just listen, it's pretty fun either way! Finally we ask: • How good are drunk aunties on Dance Mats? • Lion King. WHY?!? • How great is a 'Honeybadger'?! Check us out below: https://linktr.ee/livinglavitalocapodcast2023-04-111h 17Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca4: The Sims 2 (PSP), Civilization Revolution 2 (PS Vita) and 'Petty Reasons Not To Stick It Out'Greetings podgoers! Its episode 4 of Living La Vita Podcast. Ricky Martin still hasn't sued us, local breweries are still in business and we still love retro gaming on our PSP and PS Vita. This week on the pod, we are joined by a guest who moved a whole 3.4m up the stairs to come and join us as Rich's wife Fiona adds some extra sizzle to our usual layout. This week we ask... - The Sims 2 on PSP. Just WHAT?!? - Boob notes? Are they like foot notes? - Go Big or go to another game where there are less...2023-04-041h 10Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca3: Rock Band Unplugged (PSP), Papers Please (PS Vita) and CEX in the cityAnd just like that... Episode 3 is dropping into an earlobe near you. We're as prolific as Harry Kane and as popular as Prince Harry. Alright... slightly more popular... This week we review: • Rock Band Unplugged • Papers Please First up, we discuss our retro gaming shopping habits and then we discover what is more thrilling... - Live Ebay bidding on the pod? - Getting booed off stage as the front man of a band named 'Shaven Pastries' on Rock Band? - Allowing a terrorist to vault the wall at border control in a dystopian hellscape on Papers Please? Whatever your answer let...2023-03-271h 03Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca2: Uncharted Golden Abyss (PS Vita) Archer Mclean's Mercury (PSP) and Perfect Game GirthHow do Pod goers! We're back again for another week by popu... som... a morsel of demand. Note: We apologise up front for the poor sound quality up until 08:00. The whirring noise is just our Co-host Chemistry. Thank you to our loyal platoon of listeners. We appreciate you listening more than you'll ever know. If you love or even tolerate our show, please share it with your family and friends. So whats happening in Living La Vita Loca land this week? Up for discussion... • The award for Best Adult UMD of the Year 2005 • We dive into the (Uncharted): Golden Abyss. • We do...2023-03-211h 06Living La Vita LocaLiving La Vita Loca1: P.S(P) I Love youWelcome to the Living La Vita Loca Podcast! We're all about retro gaming here at L.L.V.L headquarters (Rich's spare room) and specifically we want to hold hands with some old handheld friends... This week we introduce ourselves and reveal our love for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and PS Vita. Join us on our journey as we retroactively check out the PSP and Vita's features and games. In this episode we find out... • Who is Moonface? • What are Serbian Dinar? • Why would you visit Shrewsbury?! And other extremely relevant parts of the conversation around why you would want to tak...2023-03-1449 min