Mixtape Is a Musical Magic Trick
Mixtape arrived alongside a flood of euphoric reviews and a variety of discourses across various social media platforms and gaming groups. With a tiny bit of distance, we talk through what does and do...
15 Maj 58min
Saros is More Bullet Heaven Than Bullet Hell
Saros is the continuation of decades of bullet-dodging action games from Housemarque. But it has most in common with the team’s previous game, Returnal. Is this game welcoming enough to bring newcomer...
8 Maj 1h
Vampire Crawlers and a Big Besties Update
This is a big week of change at The Besties. But before we get to the news, we all want to chat about one of the strangest spinoffs in indie games. Vampire Crawlers adapts the iconic Vampire Survivors...
1 Maj 58min
Tomodatchi Life and the Magic and Wonder of Super Nintendo World
This week we're diving into Nintendo's bizarre life sim, Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream, which allows a bunch of Miis to eat cigarettes for breakfast. Griffin also regales us on his experience visi...
24 Apr 56min
Pragmata Is Like Dead Space with Optimism
Announced in 2020, Pragamata has finally arrived. Capcom’s new third-person shooter puts you in the boots of a space marine-type who must overcome evil robots on a moon covered in 3D-printed skyscrape...
17 Apr 59min
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
