Ep. 204 - Hoodie Bones, with Mathew Kumar and Ash Parrish

Leading game industry professionals and Insert Credit Show regulars Mathew Kumar and Ash Parrish rejoin the panel for Mario voice cast announcements, Bayon3tta, and esports.

Questions this week:

1. From Brandon Sheffield: What games have been helped or hindered by having a tertiary gameplay system? (3:00)
2. Was the Mario movie voice cast announcement really that bad? (09:17)
3. In a side scrolling game, how large should the player character be? (15:13)
4. Where does Bayonetta go from here? (20:22)
5. What is the greatest unsolvable problem in game design? (24:45)
6. Dirtbag Tiger Tiger asks three questions and for some reason Jaffe allows it (29:45)
7. How do you report on mods and fan projects, knowing that more attention might get them shut down? (35:02)
8. What’s going on in the Overwatch League lately? (39:10)
9. How concerned should we be about video game censorship in China? (48:34)
10. For real though, what is the Mamma Mia! of video games? (54:49)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Mash-up Merch (59:25)

Wait a minute, were you really not gonna discuss this episode in the forums?!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Hey, Bayonetta, what is the main ingredient of guacamole??
• Dungeon Explorer
• Save Ribbons
• Amnesia series
• Fable
• Mario casting news
• Chris Pratt
• Charles Martinet reading paragraphs as Mario
• Nolan North
• Dana Carvey
• Martin Short
• Only Murderers in the Building
• Giancarlo Esposito
• Bob Hoskins
• John Leguizamo
• The Lego Movie (2014)
• Paulie Walnuts
• Final Fight series
• God Hand
• Super Mario 3D World
• Hollow Knight
• Bayonetta
• Fly Me To The Moon cover
• Moon River cover
• That’s Amore
• Blue Moon
• Hideki Kamiya
• Bizarro
• New World
• Ultima Online
• Emotion Engine
• Dynasty Warriors series
• Hyrule Warriors
• Berserk and the Band of the Hawk
• Persona 5 Strikers
• Final Fantasy XV ramen ad
• Ronald Reagan
• SAGE
• i’m not gonna link you to Zone animations, sorry
• The Shanghai Dragons
• Geguri
• Ted Lasso
• China limits online gaming for children to 3 hours per week
• Chinese Overwatch teams boycott South Korean player
• Genshin Impact censorship
• John Cena apologizes for calling Taiwan a country
• Devotion
• Mamma Mia! (2008)
• ABBA
• ABBA Virtual London concert
• Sonic CD
• Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
• Sonic Mania
• Street Fighter The Movie The Video Game
• Kylie Minogue

Recommendations:

Mathew: National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Commission Reports, Native-Land.ca

Brandon: Shuumi Land Tax, Mntu by Ushangvagush

Ash: Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day Oct. 11th, Sable

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.