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We’ve got news, reviews, and a chat with Anna Konczak of Transparent Games about visual novels all ahead!

The show kicks off with Bri Galgano, Jacob Garner, and Aki on hand to welcome Anna Konczak of Transparent Games to the show to chat about Saintess of the Golden Bow and My Wife is a Spy?! We talk about the development of visual novels, Anna’s history in writing and extensive history of visual novels available on itch, the complexities of branching paths and tracking storylines, and how Anna got talked into doing a podcast while sick at 3am!

After Anna heads out, it’s news of the week with the latest news on the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog update for October including Silent Hill 2 and Until Dawn, a handful of Xbox games getting a Play Anywhere upgrade including Baldur’s Gate III, 1000xRESIST hitting Xbox and PlayStation, a new Final Fantasy Dissidia game that immediately lost everybody by being a mobile gacha game that will shut down in 18 months, and tons more! Plus a batch of reviews including a visit from Horror Acolyte!

0:00 - Intro/Transparent Games Chat
53:12 - News
1:13:43 - Bye Sweet Carole - Little Sewing Machine, Meangrip Studios, Maximum Entertainment (Bri & Aki)
1:27:19 - Lethal Honor: Order of the Apocalypse - Viral Studios, HandyGames (Jacob)
1:33:23 - Spindle - Wobble Ghost, Deck13 (Aki)
1:41:47 - Nocturnal Whispers - FMV Interactive (Jacob, Aki, Bri)
1:56:15 - BALL x PIT - Kenny Sun, Devolver Digital (Horror)
2:09:10 - MotoTrials - Proud Arts (Jacob)
2:14:49 - Arcade Archives 2 BATTLANTIS - HAMSTER (Jacob)
2:18:37 - CAPTURED - Perp Games (Bri, Aki, Jacob)
2:26:57 - Castle Crumble - Orbital Knight, Drageus Games (Jacob)
2:30:27 - Sokobear Winter - Bad Kids Games, Bad Minions, Little Giant (Aki)
2:34:48 - Paint Path - AFIL Games (Jacob)
2:38:48 - KIDZ KORNER: Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club - Cradle Games, GameMill (Jacob)
2:45:45 - KIDZ KORNER: Barbie Horse Trails - PHL Collective, Outright Games (Jacob)

The show ends with a track from The OneUps from Mario Paint since we covered a game about paint. Book it! Ship!

2:55:10 - The OneUps - Title Screen (Mario Paint)

https://www.transparent.games/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3419240/Saintess_of_the_Golden_Bow/
https://www.littlesewingmachine.com/
https://www.meangrip.com/
https://maximument.com/
https://www.lethalhonor.com/
https://www.handy-games.com/
https://wobble-ghost.com/
https://www.deck13.com/
https://www.fmvinteractive.com/
https://kennysun.com/
https://www.devolverdigital.com/
https://proudarts.com/
https://www.hamster.co.jp/
https://perpgames.com/
https://www.orbitalknight.com/
http://drageusgames.com/
https://badkid.games/
https://badminions.com.br/
https://littlegiantdev.com/
https://afilgames.com/
https://www.cradlegames.com/
https://gamemill.com/
https://www.phlcollective.com/
https://outrightgames.com/
https://theoneups.com/
https://ocremix.org/
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