Peter covers the wide variety of musical genres found through environment inversion in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Joe wanders through a cute-as-heck world to collect pieces of time in Pascal Michael Stiefel’s work in A Hat in Time.
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Joe praises the Smash Bros.-inspired all-star composing team in Kid Icarus Uprising and Peter gets tropical for a hot-pink, blood-splattered battle royale in Masafumi Takada’s work in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
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Peter riffs on Sinnoh’s snow, jazz, and heavy bass themes from Pokémon Diamond/Pearl and Joe visits the Dark Hour to explore the English rap stylings of Lotus Juice’s work in Persona 3.
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Joe personally connects with the one-man effort of creating the life and farm simulation of Stardew Valley and Peter mourns the loss of his save file and anthropomorphic animal friends in Manaka Kataoka’s work in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
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Peter reminisces about the rocking guitar tunes in his favorite game while growing up in Sonic Adventure 2 and Joe pays tribute to the game that brought an industry into the third dimension alongside Koji Kondo’s work in Super Mario 64
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Early third-party E3 2019 predictions, Microsoft and Sony to join forces on streaming tech, Ubisoft’s roller-coaster week of delays and teases, Nintendo releases a Super Mario Maker 2 Direct, Call of Duty’s 2020 game may be Black Ops 5, the NCAA may open the door for video game likenesses, and playing Rakuen
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Joe presents a funky mix of beats with aged voice sampling in Jet Set Radio & Jet Set Radio Future and Peter analyzes the channeling of corrupted audio energy through a created synth instrument in Mick Gordon’s work on DOOM (2016).
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Early Microsoft E3 2019 predictions, Final Fantasy VII Remake highlights a new State of Play, a U.S. senator introduces a lootbox ban bill, EA Access arrives on PS4 in July, the E3 2019 press conference schedule appears to be set, and playing Monster Prom
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Peter presents a game ahead of its time with a Hollywood-inspired score in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Joe reminisces about the anxiety-inducing apes from the first game of his youth in Grant Kirkhope’s work on Donkey Kong 64.
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Early Nintendo E3 2019 predictions, Epic buys Rocket League developer Psyonix, the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer draws criticism, PS Plus and Xbox Live Gold free games for May 2019, a new Earthworm Jim game announced as an Intellivision Amico exclusive, a new Tom Clancy game may be revealed this week, and playing Resident Evil 2
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