The Retro Breakdown
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Every week, Dean (twitch.tv/timewanderer) and Tom discuss current gaming news, and then check out some old (or sometimes new) piece of gaming history to see how it holds up, and test the strength of nostalgia.
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The best game in the X series since X4 is also by far one of the absolute dumbest imaginable!AND THAT MAKES IT SO MUCH BETTERSend us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
I haven't played a game with this much edge since my last playthrough of Catherine.Also, I am absolutely going to spoil the ending of Blue Prince, so be warned if that's something you would like to avoid.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
I'm getting rid of a chunk of my retro games collection, and with the money I make from it, maybe I'll buy more games like this.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Zero and Ciel and Doctor Weil live in a society. Which is not the same as our society, the one where somebody decided we needed an Overcooked clone based on Ripple Island.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Invisible platforms! Vapid princesses! Sassy fairy companions! Casinos in the town well! Unhinged puzzle solutions! Childish taunts from your antagonist!Fun?Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
After five years, we finally decide to play another Rushing Beat game, and since we started with the third one, why not continue in reverse chronological order, right?Classic case here of a game with all the right ideas and just all the wrong thoughts on implementation.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Rare has this thing where we keep going into their games expecting to be underwhelmed or even trash it, but then we end up glazing them because the game is a marvel of engineering even if it is obscenely difficult and player-hostile for no good reason.Despite my best efforts, this is another one of those times.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
This game is basically the whole reason we started playing Mega Man games in the first place. We're finally here. Feels like an important milestone.Also.Burn. Burn. Burn to the ground.HOOOO!Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
A dive into the Mega Man Zero plotline reveals that Zero has hundreds of children that he eats for power. Everyone he knows encourages this. The game tells you how messed up that is and then insists you do it anyway.Game's good, thoSend us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Remember kids, when you criticize Ubisoft for sexually assaulting women in the workplace and systematically covering it up for years, it makes their games worse somehow. Ubisoft is the real victim here.It definitely isn't because they've been remaking the same game with different coats of paint for the last 15 years and trying to pretend they're trailblazers.Anyway, we miss classic Rare. This game is super good.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
As we have established, Kirby is an eldritch being with powers beyond human ken. For a creature containing the power of entire galaxies as playthings, these pitiful creatures known as Coo, Kine, and Rick are beneath his notice. They will explode when they must to serve the pink lord's will and provide him with the entertainment he desires.There will be more animal friends. Always more. More to be devoured, to be punished, to be slowly tortured in his service. Of that he will make sure. The universe will always bend to his whims, to his hunger."Poyo," he says, for he cares not why.This is one of the best puzzle games I've ever played.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Featuring 5 minutes of talking about E-SWAT, leftover from the podcast that got corrupted last week. It's okay, that's the exact right amount of time to talk about that.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
When you realize that you both are the type of person to go to exotic locations and just buy Nintendo stuff instead of actual souvenirs.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Evidently, the key to making a good Mega Man game in the 21st century is to not let Capcom make it.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Technically three more games on tap today as we played all three Aerobiz games, but they're all similar enough to be talked about in one podcast.Thanks for all the weird stuff, Koei. Sorry I'm 30 years late finding it.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
It's game 3/3 in the Sunsoft collection, and this one, while jank in some ways you might expect out of a 1980's point-and-click adventure game on a console, is actually pretty charming when it's not asking you to find invisible items!Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
It's two games in one on this week's podcast, where we take on 2/3 of the Sunsoft is Back! Collection. These are definitely some of the games of all time. There's some potential, but... also a lot of no.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Why. Why is it like this. There is no reason for it to be like this. It's like they wanted to make it exactly the same as Mega Man X5 but worse in every possible way.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
There's a lot going on this week, but there's always time for Stickerbrush Symphony.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
Basically a two-for-one podcast today as we experience the excellent Donkey Kong for Game Boy, typically referred to as "Donkey Kong '94," and then I wax poetic for like 25 minutes on Uncharted Waters: New Horizons, which is a clunky and flawed but INCREDIBLY ambitious game for its time.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
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