The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast!

This week the gloves are off, as we sit face to face and air out our biggest grievances with the state of gaming.

In this episode we each pitch some of our hottest takes in gaming and try to convince the other host of their legitimacy.

Is VR just a gimmick?

Are the best Metroidvania games Metroid or Castlevania?

Let us know your hottest takes, and whether or not you agree with ours!

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Hopefully you've all recovered from the season finale of The Last of Us (HBO)!

This week we've got a topic SO HOT that we had to release our episode on a Monday instead of Tuesday.

We woke up bright and early to go over all of our thoughts on the final episode of Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin's masterpiece.

After the full episode breakdown we take some time to talk about the overall effectiveness of the show, and even rank each of the episodes from best to worst.

Plus: which elements and episodes worked better for The Last of Us in TV versus Video Game form?

Let us know your thoughts on the season!

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With Creed III in theatres, and everyone from TikTok stars to NBA players trying to step into the squared circle, we thought we'd use this week to play one of the greatest boxing video games of all time: Fight Night Round 3!

When it first came out in 2006 it was known as one of the most gorgeous games we'd ever seen.

But this love letter to the sweet science used an innovative control scheme to give us what many consider to be the greatest translation of boxing to a controller we've ever gotten. 17 years later, will all of the innovations start to show their age?

Or can this game still answer the bell? Plus: updates on our progress with Far Cry 6 and Cyberpunk: 2077!

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We're capping off our month long look at dating sims with our listeners' most requested game: Doki Doki Literature Club!

It's the perfect way to wrap up FeBOOary, and for a game from 2017 it's amazing we've managed to avoid any spoilers for so long.

All we knew about Doki Doki Literature Club going into this episode was that it promised to turn the Dating Sim genre on its head.

Did the twists and turns work on us?

Or did we find this game to be a bit too pretentious, and even more... dated?

Find out this week on The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast.

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We bet you didn't expect to wake up today and learn that back in 2019 Kentucky Fried Chicken released an ACTUAL, fully playable dating sim.

It's called I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator, and in the spirit of our newly remastered theme of FeBOOary we decided to see if we could get all up in The Colonel's bucket.

This episode recounts two journeys through a cooking school under the tutelage of a professor dog named Sprinkles, while competing to earn the love and respect of Colonel Sanders himself.

Find out if this blatant branded content is worth playing, or if it's Finger Lickin' Bad!

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This week we continue FeBOOary with a special episode where we count down our 5 most significant crushes we've ever had in a video game!

We're celebrating the month of love with a look back at some of our most formative gaming... relationships?

Where does Miranda from Mass Effect rank against Joel from The Last of Us, and why is Ms. Pac Man making an appearance?

Find out all of this and more as we reveal way more about ourselves than we ever intended!

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This week we return to the scariest month of the year (FeBOOary) with a look at Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator!

It turns out there was a miscommunication with the theme of our podcast this month, so instead of playing scary games we're spending the next few weeks focusing on romance in gaming!

It turns out "Boo" can mean more than one thing! We may not have had any clue about the premise of Dream Daddy before jumping in with both feet, but BOY do we know now. It's been a while since either of us have played a dating sim. Will this be the one to capture our hearts and minds?

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What would Guitar Hero be like as a First Person Shooter? This week we imagine what some of gaming's most popular franchises would look like as a COMPLETELY different game!

We curated a list of just about every major franchise we could think of, and a list of every possible genre, then randomly paired them up to see how creative we could get!

Tune in to find out our pitch ideas for Gears of War as an Open World Sandbox, Guitar Hero as a First Person Shooter, and Donkey Kong as a Turn Based Strategy game!

Plus: updates on God of War: Ragnarok, and some of our biggest backlog regrets.

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Have you finally had enough of your boring old birth family? Don't you think it's time to shake things up a bit?

Well, we do too! This week we draft ourselves a brand new family consisting of ONLY video game characters.

Will we ask for a dad as tough as Kratos, a kid as sweet as Kirby, or a brother like Joel from The Last of Us? We start from the ground up and choose a father, partner, child, sibling, and two wild cards (because what family doesn't have a couple of those?).

Plus: our progress on God of War: Ragnarok, and a beginner’s guide to Zelda!

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If you've listened to this podcast long enough, you'll know that The Last of Us holds a special place in our hearts.

But when it was first announced that a TV show was going to be made, and that Neil Druckmann would be receive the full HBO treatment, we weren't completely sold on it.

Andrew was optimistic, but Mikey thought it would be redundant.

How have their impressions changed as we tiptoed closer to the release date, and now that it's upon us, will either of them eat their words?

Before we get started on our deep dive into the pilot, and dissect the performances of Pedro Pascal (Joel) and Bella Ramsey (Ellie), we take a moment to talk about our long standing relationships with the franchise.

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