It’s a special guest episode this week as John and Lorelai are joined by Xyros, a variety VTuber and the leader of the Xybatsu. John’s been playing Deltarune Chapter 5 and a little more Marathon while Lorelai’s gotten deeper into The Adventures of Elliot: The Millenium Tales and Fuck’s Quest II between sessions of Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. Our special guest Xyros has been playing Alien Isolation, Tormented Souls 2, Romancing SaGa 2, and Mina the Hollower. In the news, they go over all the potential studio closures coming from Microsoft, some EVO shenanigans, and Team Ninja clearly not understanding why Dead Or Alive 6 didn’t work and making everyone even angrier with the release of Dead or Alive 6: Last Round.

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Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

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It’s another duo show this week with John and Lorelai sitting down to mostly talk about Fuck’s Quest 2. John’s also been playing Final Fantasy VII Remake on his Switch 2 and Project Digimon. Lorelai’s been playing The Adventures of Elliot: The Millenium Tales and Beatdown City Survivors. The duo also discusses all the terrible studio moves XBOX is making.

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Fuck’s Quest II is a game where you play as Fuck. He is the character you play as. He has decided to break the curse put on the land, and to do so he must gather two Bible Crystals and defeat a variety of ugly monsters. Everything about this game is irony poisoned; the characters are MS Paint-esque abominations, and their dialogue is comprised mostly of swears and insults. Hiding under this layer of complete stupidity is a solidly designed game, calling to mind 2D Zelda with sword and bomb-based combat and a few dungeons to explore, each unlocking new abilities for Fuck to use. 

Unfortunately, a lot of why I liked this game is the jokes, and just listing a bunch of jokes in a review is lame and helps nobody. I will still tell you a few to try to convince you. You can get a free health refill in dungeons by pissing “forever” into a huge hole in the ground, or on a guy you hate’s gravestone later in the game. “Sex Food” makes you move faster for 20 seconds, which is apparently analogous to how long Fuck lasts in bed. The hub town is called “Cleanville”, which I keep thinking about every few hours, and I laugh every time. 

To me, the humor lies in how batshit the world is in its consistency. Everyone is unflinchingly cruel in language to each other, but they will also help and be helped at the drop of a hat. Fuck will tell someone to go die in a hole and then immediately take on a lifethreatening quest to find an item for them. The absurdity is key, but so is the weird sense of heroism throughout. There’s no reason for Fuck to be doing any of this, he sucks ass and girls don’t like him. But he does it because everyone else sucks ass and that’s just how it is. As someone who often tells people I would die for at a moment’s notice to shut the fuck up (jokingly!!!) at least once a day, you can see why I gel with this.

I initially wanted to say “if you can look past these things, there’s a well put-together game here”, but no. You need to think this brainrot is hilarious or don’t bother. I can only recommend this to people who love YouTube Poop and similar things. This is a consistently rewarding game for people who know what a Dinner Blaster is. I’m kinda surprised it’s not in this game, to be frank. There are so many little nooks and crannies to dig into, item interactions to discover, and dumb jokes to set up by slamming your stupid abilities together; it’s very impressive that something so dumb is also so smart. 

There’s a variety of puzzle and skill based challenges in the world, and I enjoy how ridiculous some of the answers can be. One event involves the creator of the game, covered in bed sores, asking you to help fix a bug as the environment around him disintegrates. You have to chase an actual physical bug using Sex Food to speed up, and once you do it clears up the horrible pixelation layered over the room the dev is in. He then gives you a boat-pothole removing tool, which lets you help a rich guy get his boat out of a pothole, which you then jump into while screaming. It’s a bit difficult to do a few of the quests, but none of them feel impossible, unless the joke is that you’re not supposed to be doing this or you just have to come back with a new item.

These side quests and extra items you can get are completely optional. It’s possible to mainline the game and blow through it fairly quickly, but once you scratch the surface and use different items in different places, the world expands exponentially. I would say this is a “you get what you put into it” kind of game, where you’ll be rewarded with new jokes and abilities by sticking your head somewhere you passed by before. Sometimes you end up getting a health upgrade and nothing else, sure, but other times you’ll stumble into a “lockpicking” minigame that is an impossible Snake-like that constantly shows you how much time you’ve wasted on attempting it. I did not finish it in my playthrough. You may call me weak if necessary.

Another thing to highlight for folks without irony poisoning is the soundtrack. There’s a wide swath of songs that hit many random genres, but they’re all solid. I’ve had a lot of the music stuck in my head, which is especially funny since it results in Fuck’s stupid walk sprite gesticulating around in my mind’s eye. The “voice acting” also rules, in that each time you talk to anyone they say an insane voice line such as “My farts, my rules! Deal with it!” which yes, I have added that to the “stim archive”. 

Fuck’s Quest II is a very stupid game made by someone with solid game design chops. If you want to play a 2D Zelda game where you call everyone an asshole and have a fart propulsion ability, this is that. It’s very much worth checking out for many reasons, but for people with broken senses of humor like me, it’s almost essential.

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It’s a full house again this week as John, Lily, Crystal, and Nikolas sit down to talk about the Nintendo Direct and the games they’ve been playing. John’s been playing Resident Evil 4 Remake, Marathon, Boltgun, and the Parasite Mutant demo. Lily’s been stuck in PS2 purgatory with Bloodrayne, Shadow Hearts, Mercenaries, Dark Cloud 2, and Evergrace. She’s also been playing Alabaster Dawn‘s early access version and Sekitori. Crystal is in Final Fantasy hell with Final Fantasy XII and watching Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children while Nikolas dug into Etrian Odyssey.

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Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

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A new week, a new episode of The Gamesline Podcast. This week John and Lorelai sit down to talk about all the stuff that was fit to talk about from the Summer Games Festival, Playstation State of Play, and more. Lorelai’s been Playing Final Fantasy 3 on her Super Nintendo to prepare for the new Kefka Ultimate in Final Fantasy XIV while John has been playing Marathon and Pikmin Squared.

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Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

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It’s a full house this week on the Gamesline Podcast. John is joined by Lorelai, Maverick and Rose to talk about the last week in gaming. John’s still obsessing about Pikmin when he’s not playing Digimon cards or Pokémon Channel. Lorelai was Final Fantasy pilled at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival which got her playing Final Fantasy XI again while also digging in to Vampire Crawlers on her long road trip. Rose of course played more Marathon, Mina the Hollower, Saros, and Forbidden Solitaire while Maverick played a bunch of Hades 2.

In the news, we go over the interview Mike Fisher gave where he annihilated Yuji Naka, The Witcher 3 is getting more DLC, and a bill addressing the Stop Killing Games initiative is moving forward in California. In other news, Dark Horse Comics is unionizing after their new Embracer overlords started shutting down Things From Another World and shifting focus to Games. If you’d like to sign the petition to support the unionization effort, you can do that here.

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Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

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The Gamesline Podcast is back for another week at the Pikmin factory as John and Crystal sit down to talk about the week in games. John’s still just as Pikmin 4 obsessed as he’s been while Crystal has been playing Fuser and all the extra stuff from Final Fantasy X-2 like Last Mission and X-2.5 -Will-. She also attended the digital Endix Expo. In the news, we’re getting Kowloon’s Gate in english.

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Another week, another Gamesline Podcast! This week, John’s been playing Resident Evil 4 and 7 along with Pikmin 4 Fierce mode. Nikolas has started Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and is digging into The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. In the news, Harada has joined SNK for some reason and SEGA has cancelled their mobile Super Game.

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It’s a biohazard this week as John and Rose tackle the most difficult challenges of Leon S. Kennedy’s career! John is playing Resident Evil 4 (2005) on Professional difficulty, while Rose platinum’d Resident Evil 9 with less than infinite equipment durability! Plus, they discuss Pragmata, Marathon, Vampire Crawlers, and Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo! In the news, there’s a new Star Fox remake, a Switch prince increase, one-of-a-kind Mindseye DLC, and unionization amongst the developers at Double Fine and Magic the Gathering: Arena!

After that, there’s plenty of listener questions this week, including: What did John enjoy most about his vacation? What games do John and Rose play to lull themselves to sleep? What is the most edible physical video game? What do they want to pulverize with a blender? And what video game feels like eating a stale Dorito?

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Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

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