Episode 307 - PAX West, Prince of Persia, Balatro, & Giant Robots OR "The Good Kind of Degeneracy"

The Platformers: A Video Game (and Nerd Culture) Podcast

In this episode, Brian, Kris and Lucas talk about conventions and travel. We also talk about Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, What The Golf, Super Robot Wars and a smattering of other topics. Pay no attention to the fact that Brian opens the show with the wrong episode number, it's definitely 307. Enjoy.

TOPICS AND TIMESTAMPS

• Mental Health - 5:30 |
• Brian at Capcom Cup - 12:00 |
• (PAX West) Visions of Mana - 19:25 |
• (PAX West) LUCID - 27:10 |
• (PAX West) Freaked Fleapit - 31:37 |
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - 39:39 |
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth - 49:30 |
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - 55:05 |
• Balatro - 1:04:02 |
• What The Golf - 1:18:47 |
• Dragon's Dogma 2 (and Capcom Microtransactions) - 1:21:47 |
• Super Robot Wars 30 (and Original Generations) - 1:25:34 |
• Conclusion - 1:41:09 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):

• It's Not A Horse, It's A Bicycle
• +Getting A Cast For A Broken Ankle While A Spear Is Stuck In Your Chest
• You Have An ADHD Butt
• + Fighting A Four-Year-Old on Dynamic Controls
• There's Literally Dozens of Mana Fans
• A Game Far More Degenerate Than The First Two
• + NEKUTAI!
• + The Horrific Necktie From Disco Elysium Lives On
• + The Only Way I Can Describe It Is "Unhinged"
• + The Good Kind of Degeneracy
• + I Was Today Years Old When I Found Out About Muv-Luv
• + The Balls It Takes For Those Developers To Gaslight Their Playerbase For An Entire Game
• + "It's Edgelord-y" Is Not An Argument
• You Can Sit Down And Wait Until I've Recovered From Like A Dragon
• + You Sat Down To Play Poker With A Yu-Gi-Oh Deck
• I've Also Been Playing Capcom's Dragon Slaying Game... By Which I Mean Replaying Monster Hunter World
• What The Hell Do You Know About Super Robot Wars
• + Can A Series Really Be Trash If They Have Robots In Them?
• + There's Trash, There's Trash With Robots, There's Good Stuff With Robots, It's A Sliding Scale
• There Absolutely Is Such A Thing As Bad Pizza
• + Super Robot Wars 30 Is Not A Misnomer, There's 30 Of Them
• + This Is Fan Service, We Know What You're Here For, You Will Be Serviced, It Will Be Great
• + I Need To Kill My Perfectionism, Because It's Killing My Time

[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax. This episode edited by Kris Cornelisse.]