Ep. 286 - Musouls, with Blessing Adeoye Jr.

Kinda Funny Games host and producer Blessing Adeoye Jr. joins the panel to cover review scores for video games, Frank’s answer for good adventure game design, and the Capcom Five. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Blessing Adeoye Jr. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. What do people expect from a review of a new game? (06:29)
2. Who have been the best level designers since Doom? (17:23)
3. How can a difficult video game puzzle keep players from losing patience and resolve to solve it? (25:06)
4. Let’s all record some all purpose video game sample dialogue. (33:13) Insert Credit Ad Break: 100 Gold (37:36)
5. Lloyd Irving asks: Rank the Capcom Five (38:50)
6. Koei Tecmo wants you to scout the right IP for their next Musou game. Who do you approach? (46:46)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Reccing Crew - Star Wars characters (54:42)

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:06)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Chun-Li
• The Pest (1997)
• K’
• Terry Bogard
• Garou: Mark of the Wolves
• Asuka 120% series
• Blue Mary
• Ramlethal Valentine
• Eddy Gordo
• Scorpion
• Takeda Takahashi
• Fight Night Round 3
• PS5 controller could track your sweat and heart rate
• The Last of Us: Part I
• Redfall
• Star Wars: Jedi - Survivor
• Dead Rising
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Pokémon Scarlet
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• Fallout: New Vegas
• GamePro Magazine
• Super Mario series
• Doom
• Gears of War series
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Dishonored
• Prey
• Deathloop
• Hitman series
• Hirokazu Yasuhara
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Uncharted series
• Sonic R
• Jak X: Combat Racing
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• Silent Hill series
• Resident Evil series
• Nintendo patents in-game hint system
• Digital Pictures
• Until Dawn
• The Quarry
• Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order
• Horizon II: Forbidden West - Burning Shores
• Call of Duty series
• Audio Atrocities
• Vincent Price
• Bloody Wolf
• Capcom Five
• P.N.03
• Viewtiful Joe
• Dead Phoenix
• Resident Evil 4
• Killer7
• The Silver Case
• Flower Sun and Rain
• Shenmue series
• Huge Earthbound Fan Excited to Play It for First Time
• Gundam
• God Hand
• Ace Attorney / Gyakuten Saiban series
• Koei’s Warriors / Musō series
• Hyrule Warriors
• Funko Pop
• Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below
• Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
• Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc: Seimasenki no Sho
• Super Smash Brothers series
• Fortnite: Battle Royale
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Bloodborne
• Nioh
• Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
• Ninja Gaiden series
• Kingdom Hearts series
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT
• Mortal Kombat series
• Warriors All-Stars
• Earth Defense Force series

Recommendations:

Blessing: Check out The Blessing Show on Kinda Funny Games and the Phil Spencer interview from Kinda Funny

Brandon: Demonschool public demo, Koudelka

Tim: Play the Shadow Hearts series and Sōkaigi if you want to play a couple other weirder lesser talked about or looked at video games that are all somewhat related to Koudelka, have a unionized workplace if you have the option

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