Top Down Perspective

This week Sean and Paul are discussing Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Paul also tries out Orbitals and Halloween: The Game. We start news off with Nintendo's Customer Appreciation Sale as well as their two Nintendo Directs. We also discuss PlayStation dropping Kojima's Physint and Xbox picking it up. TDP is listener funded. Like what you hear? Want to support the show and get ad-free episodes? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/topdownperspective

We swap Claire for Sean this week so he can talk about playing through all of Hades 2 and most of Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. Paul finishes Mortal Shell 2. News starts off with a rundown of the recent State of Play, we then talk about Xbox limiting time on Xbox Cloud, and Double Fine says they'll make Brutal Legend 2 if they get enough crowd funding. TDP is listener funded. Like what you hear? Want to support the show and get ad-free episodes? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/topdownperspective

Sean is away again on assignment so the rest of us get together to talk some gaming. Claire has been playing retro Arnold Schwarzenegger games, particularly Total Recall, Predator and various versions of Termination 2: Judgement Day. Paul played through The Sinking City 2 and is working through Mortal Shell II.  Gamescom is happening and has some game announcements there. Double Fine own all their own IPs again, Xbox's disc-to-digital initiative is testing soon, Konami wants a yearly Silent Hill and GTA VI is a thing, I guess? TDP is listener funded. Like what you hear? Want to support the show and get ad-free episodes? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/topdownperspective

Sean had to call out last minute but Claire is back from the Colosseum and spends some time talking about how that went. While she wasn't playing much for free time, some Marvel Tokon happened and the finer points of finishing Plok! on the SNES are discussed. Paul played through MOUSE: P.I. For Hire this week and talks a bit about that. In news, Twitch forces AI training as a default for all users, the legendary Warren Spector is retiring, Complusion Games kept it together in their buyout from Microsoft's clutch and Riot is cancelling further development on 2XKO. TDP is listener funded. Like what you hear? Want to support the show and get ad-free episodes? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/topdownperspective

We start off with Paul's non-spoiler thoughts of Spider-Man Brand New Day. Sean has been playing Big Walk. Paul is playing Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls and Mistfall Hunter. During news we discuss Devolver Digital attempting to go private, Half Mermaid announces their next game, and Netflix closes down two studios. TDP is listener funded. Like what you hear? Want to support the show and get ad-free episodes? Head over to https://www.patreon.com/topdownperspective