Ep. 358 - Soak the Hippo, Save the World, with Ash Parrish

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Reporter for The Verge Ash Parrish guests hosts our panel as they correctly guess the discourse around Zelda and Dragon Age, briefly review Megalopolis, and develop a free exclusive phrase you can use! Hosted by Ash Parrish, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Portland Retro Gaming Expo
• Atari
• Jeff Minter
• Llama
• Alpaca
• What Is a ‘Beige Flag’?
• Nosferatu
• Lumetri scope
• r/Vexillology
• Gadsden flag
• Honey badger
• Rainbow flag
• Purdue University
• Indiana University

1: Are there any games that take heavily from Jewish mythology? (11:01)

• Dante’s Inferno
• Inferno
• Castle Wolfenstein series
• Noah’s Ark
• Exile
• Raji: An Ancient Epic
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Journey to the West
• Dream of the Red Chamber
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Water Margin
• One Thousand and One Nights
• Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
• Golem
• Kabbalah
• Sefirot
• Sephiroth
• Final Fantasy VII
• Hironobu Sakaguchi
• Lost Odyssey
• Fantasian
• The Last Story
• Blue Dragon
• Etrian Odyssey HD
• Seinfeld Scene It?

2: How do you feel about the direction Dragon Age is going? (19:16)

• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Dragon Age series
• Baldur’s Gate III
• Lego
• Playmobil
• Oliver Twist
• Star Wars
• Brown paper bag test
• the image of Veilguard on Steam tim mentions
• Mass Effect series
• Avowed
• Saints Row: The Third
• Forspoken
• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• Cyberpunk 2077
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• 1-2-Switch
• Metroid series
• Space Channel 5
• Nana
• Ai Yazawa
• Ai Yazawa’s art of Ulala, with Nana and Hachi
• Bloodborne

3: What is the Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024) of video games? (36:56)

• Megalopolis (2024)
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Mike Drucker’s tweet
• Hideo Kojima
• SimCity
• Metropolis (1927)
• Metropolis (2001)
• Cosmopolis (2012)
• Casshern (2004)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
• Tomorrowland (2015)
• Will Wright
• Spore
• Stupid Fun Club
• The Sims
• Raid on Bungeling Bay
• The Conversation (1974)
• Flash Gordon
• Jerry Rice & Nitus’ Dog Football
• Alien Hominid
• The Godfather (1972)
• Death Stranding
• Tim Burton
• Laurence Fishburne

4: Design a serious triple-A video game about Moo Deng (44:45)

• Moo Deng
• The Last of Us
• God of War: Ragnarök
• Heroes
• Hungry Hungry Hippos
• Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)
• Screamboat

5: How can Nintendo make a well-rounded all-ages video game with a female protagonist that isn’t Samus? (48:34)

• Samus Aran
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• Princess Peach: Showtime!
• Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom doesn’t test your intelligence enough
• Princess Peach: Showtime! is clever and playful, but Peach deserves more
• Astro Bot
• Super Smash Brothers series
• Metroid series
• Super Princess Peach
• Kirby games
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder
• Mario Kart series
• Shigeru Miyamoto
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
• Super Mario Bros. 2
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
• New Super Mario Bros. U

6: Design a game starring either Princess Peach or Zelda (56:58)

• Tomb Raider series
• Barbie licensees
• Super Mario Odyssey
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Three Dirty Dwarves
• Hyrule Warriors
• Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
• Zelda’s Adventure
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Sheik
• Mario Kart 8

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (01:03:32)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:43):

• Frank: Sometimes you should have a burrito
• Tim: See Megalopolis (2024) in theaters. If you want it to be a good movie, watch Metropolis (1927), Metropolis (2001), Nosferatu (1920), and at the lowest framerate possible Intolerance (1916), as well as Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), and also you should have seen The Godfather (1972)
• Brandon: Reservation Dogs season 3, the original Bubblegum Crisis OVAs, The Left Hand of Darkness
• Ash: Appleseed (1988), Dandadan

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