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Episode 32: Grim Fandango

Join us in The Land of the Dead as we discuss the beloved Lucas Arts adventure game, Grim Fandango, which has the peculiar honour of being one of the most celebrated games of its genre, while at the same time being largely responsible for that genre's decline.    

Episode 31: Papers, Please & Return of the Obra Dinn

Time to take a look at two hit indie games from solo auteur designer, Lucas Pope. We explore how both games' mundane but fascinating premises are used as avenues to some truly exemplary game design, where the gameplay and the storytelling are one in the same.    

Episode 30: The Persona Series

This week's episode is a deep dive on the Japanese role playing games/teenage life simulators, Persona. We take a look at the entire franchise, from its beginnings as a spin-off through to its evolution as one of the most popular JRPGs of all time.

Episode 29: Ranking the Zelda Games

There are few game franchises as beloved or as influential as The Legend of Zelda series. So here's a foolhardy attempt to analyse and rank all 19 main entries in the series, which has been one of Nintendo's main tentpoles since the far flung days of 1986. 

Episode 28: Elden Ring & Horizon Forbidden West

On this episode we have a discussion about "Open World" games, and all the successes and failures that can come from this genre. And what better way to do this than chatting about two of the biggest recent releases, Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West, which both take very different approaches to their open worlds.

Episode 27: Top 10 PS4 Exclusives

The PlayStation 5 is new and shiny, but let's take a moment to look back and appreciate the good ol' PlayStation 4! What better way to do that than to make a list of the 10 best games that are exclusive to the PS4. It had an excellent library of games, so this list was surprisingly difficult to whittle down.

Episode 26: Bloodborne

On this episode of Hey! Look! Listen the discussion is about a very hard game. But just because it is very hard doesn't mean that it also isn't an amazing, seminal achievement in the medium of video games. A hunter must hunt, and we simply must wax lyrical about FromSoftware's 2015 Playstation 4 classic, Bloodborne. And maybe the conversation might also swing around to the company's latest beautiful nightmare, Elden Ring.  

Episode 25: Video Game Movie Adaptations #2

For the second time we take a look at the ropey process of transforming video games into major motion pictures, inspired by two of our favourite franchises, Uncharted and Resident Evil, which both received dubious adaptations recently.

Episode 24: Half-Life

On this episode we take a look at Half-Life, undoubtedly one of the most important, revolutionary games ever made. We discuss the radical method it used to weave its narrative, as well as the overall franchise's fascinating relationship with the growing technology of the game industry.

Episode 23: Nostalgia

This week we are joined by a guest who is not quite as much of a gamer as we are these days, and use this as an opportunity to discuss the power that nostalgia has over gaming as a hobby. We reminisce about our own memories of growing up together playing games, and take a look at the medium from more of an "outsider's" perspective. All our episodes are pretty much driven by nostalgia, but this one's REALLY about nostalgia.