For Super Mario Galaxy The Movie, We Get Help from Get Played
How do you talk about a film as strange as The Super Mario Galaxy Movie? You call in backup. Get Played’s Matt Apodaca joins us to talk about the blockbuster sequel. Does a film need a story? What’s t...
10 Apr 1h
Creature Kitchen Is an Alternative to Expensive Gaming
This week, the Besties chat about two relatively low-priced games that have won over huge audiences: Creature Kitchen and Scritchy Scratchy. In the back half, we talk through the recent PlayStation pr...
3 Apr 1h 5min
Marathon Is Both a Miracle and a Monster
Frushtick and Griffin were Destiny dudes, and yet it's Plante who has fallen in love with Bungie's new extraction shooter. What's so appealing about Marathon? Is the extraction genre's difficulty a de...
27 Mars 54min
Slay the Spire 2, a Big Hole, and a Resident Evil 9 Spoiler Chat!
Welcome to The Besties March grab bag. There are simply too many new games, so to cover as much as possible, we split up the workload. Griffin talks about the surprisingly complete Early Access releas...
20 Mars 1h 6min
Pokopia Will Teach You to Love Pokémon Again
Plenty of companies have torched their fortunes trying to smelt together a collection of hit games and genres, hoping to recreate others’ success. Understandably, many folks (ourselves included) appro...
13 Mars 50min
Scott Pilgrim vs. Millennial Nostalgia
Scott Pilgrim EX is a spiritual sequel to a Netflix animated series from 2024, a Scott Pilgrim movie tie-in game from 15 years ago, and an underrated beat ‘em up series that debuted on the NES. Or to ...
6 Mars 53min
Resident Evil: Requiem is Two Games in One!
Resident Evil Requiem has the misfortune of following Resident Evil: Village, one of our favorite games of all time. How does a game live up to that high bar? It becomes more than just one game. This ...
27 Feb 55min
Reanimal Is Like Limbo with Friends
16 years ago, Limbo launched on Xbox Live. It wasn’t the first puzzle-platformer, but its molasses-thick layer of fairy tale horror inspired a generation of grim, mostly wordless contemporaries. Argu...
20 Feb 1h
