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Developer: Double Fine Productions & Budcat Creations | Publisher: Majesco Entertainment, THQ, Double Fine Productions, Inc., The Adventure Company, EuroVideo Medien GmbH & iam8bit | Initial Release: April 19, 2005
Jacob, Mike, Moe and special guest CtrlAltNoob, take a trip and visit a psychic summer camp, make friends with a really weird fish and find brains. Also, we are not the Milk Man.
7:30 How did we play (and our struggles with PS2/XB emulation)
10:30 What kind of game is Psychonauts? We compare it to Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, Voodoo Vince and more.
12:50 What is the premise of Psychonauts?
16:35 The game had a bit of a slow start
22:00 Let’s talk about the collectables and powers in the game!
26:20 The game’s great characters and the Saturday morning nostalgia
30:20 Whippin’ doors on people’s foreheads… let’s talk about our favourite levels !
39:15 The main menu and save files in the game
46:05 We walk through the final two levels and how we get there
50:10 The in-game hint system and do we need lives anymore in 2020?
54:20 The game’s art style did such a great job at compensating for the lack of fidelity (and reminded us of Jimmy Neutron)
57:10 The Recommendation Machine
1:00:20 Question from Blake @LudonarrativeFM: “If each of your minds were turned into a Psychonauts level, what would they play/look like?”
1:03:50 Question from Katie @lesperak: “Is there anything in particular (mechanic/storyline/recurring character or expansion of some element of the game) that you want to see in the sequel?
1:06:00 Our final thoughts on Psychonauts and wrap-up!
UPCOMING SHOWS:
November 4th: Telltale’s The Walking Dead (S01E01) ft. Jacob, Moe and special guest Cam Hawkins
November 18th: Pokemon Snap ft. Jacob, Moe and special guests Joseph Hooper and Arsene Lakpa
December 2nd: Telltale’s The Walking Dead (S01E02) ft. Jacob, Moe and special guest Cam Hawkins
DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast with a focus on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!
TIP JAR: If you’re feeling generous and love the show, we have a PayPal tip jar! Any funds raised will go towards hosting our site and paying for games and equipment as we look to bring you higher quality content every month.
We kickstart a tale of two humans in two different worlds in Broken Age.
Developer: Double Fine Productions | Publisher: Double Fine Productions | Full Release: April 28, 2015
Jacob and special guests Jessica Fantauzzo, Katie Lesperance and Travis Colenutt talk about their adventure game experience (or lack thereof), laughed out loud and got so frustrated with the Hexipals.
10:25 How does Broken Age start and how did you start?
13:00 The voice cast is wild in this game (Jack Black, Elijah Wood, Will Wheaton and Jennifer Hale, for instance)
13:40 General thoughts about Act 1
14:50 The start of Shay’s Act 1
18:40 Shay meets Marek
20:50 Travis’ human parent conspiracy theory
23:05 Marek’s errands
25:35 The start of Vella’s Act 1 (Sugar Bunting)
28:25 Confronting Mog Chothra for the first time
30:35 Getting to Merriloft and losing your vowels
34:00 Going down to Shellmound
39:00 Fighting Mog Chothra and “the twist”
44:10 Act 2 (and frustration) start!
50:45 Laying out the story in Act 2?
59:30 Diving deep on the Act story
1:06:00 Wiring (and re-wiring) Hexipals
1:09:55 More highlights from our experience and questions from Twitter
1:23:20 Final thoughts (Jacob’s quote came from here and we spoke about 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor and Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland)
1:28:35 We take a trip to the Left Behind Game Show!
Thank you to @VGRations, @CSGThomas, @ALittleBreath, @WTFamicom, @the_nmac, @PoundJayYi & Michael Ruffolo for your comments and questions!
NEXT SHOWS:
Oxenfree w/ Jacob, Moe and Kam Konek: April 1st
A Short Hike w/ guests TBD: April 15th
The Last of Us w/ Jacob, Moe, Mike and Matt (aka Stormageddon): April 29th
DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast with a focus on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!
TIP JAR: If you’re feeling generous and love the show, we have a PayPal tip jar! Any funds raised will go towards hosting our site and paying for games and equipment as we look to bring you higher quality content every month.
We make sure that our Yeti costume doesn’t shrink in the dryer and enter the world of Repugia for Costume Quest: Grubbins on Ice.
Developer: Double Fine Productions | Publisher: THQ, Double Fine Productions and Dracogen (PC) | Release Date: December 21, 2010
Jacob, Mike, Moe and special guest Shay Whiston collect dandy candy and stamps, tell terribly good Dad jokes and lure people away from their relaxing getaways with French Fry smell.
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Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)
Happy Halloween! We grab the coolest cardboard costumes we can find and jump skate first into Costume Quest. Jacob, Mike and special guest Andrew Perciballi pitch imaginary games to Tim Schafer, knocking on doors, dad taxes and General Mechanics. “I digress is the theme for today.” Our next episode launches on November 15th and we are playing Luigi’s Mansion!
A special thank you this episode to Lemuel Alquino; our raw audio was an inaudible mess and he was able to save the audio. You can check out his work at lalquino.com and on Twitter @LAlquinoProd.
You can now e-mail us your questions! Send questions about past episodes or questions about us to questions@leftbehindgame.club!
Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt) & Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom)
Special Guest: Andrew Perciballi (@AndyofWindsor & Project Gateway Canada)
