Nathan Fouts of Mommy’s Best Games joins the show to chat all about Shoot 1UP DX!
The show kicks off with Nathan joining us, along with special co-host Chris Taylor, as we chat all about the Nintendo Switch release of Shoot 1UP DX, the retro styled shmup where you play all your lives at the same time! We chat about the origins of the game on Xbox Live Indie Games service, bringing the game to current consoles, influences and various games in the genre, and tons more! Always a pleasure, cybernetic boobies and all!
After Nathan and Chris head out, Jacob Garner joins to chat news of the week as we cover the latest additions and departures for Xbox Game Pass, the changes coming to Sony’s online PlayStation store and the features going away, Rockstar expanding with the purchase of Ruffian Games, the end of development for Indivisible, and a warranty extension for the Xbox Elite Controller Version 2. All that plus Jacob and Cole bickering and reviews!
Jacob reviews Star Wars Squadrons, mastering the art of starfighter combat in the Star Wars universe from Motive Studios & Electronic Arts. Jacob also covers Monster Truck Championship, a unique and challenging motor racing experience from Teyon & Nacon. Jacob heads back to the skies in Red Wings: Aces of the Sky, a dynamic action game that takes you through amazing battles from the pages of history from All in! Games.
Cake Bash is a frantic four player party game where drawn-to-life cakes beat the crumbs out of each other from High Tea Frog & Coatsink. This is the Zodiac Speaking is a story driven mystery thriller-horror game with stealth and detective modes based on the Zodiac killer from Punch Punk Games & Klabater. Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings the second installment of the beloved series to Switch & Xbox from WayForward.
Fallback: Uprising has Cole leading the rebellion in an epic rogue-like action adventure from Endroad & Microids Indie. Nexoria: Dungeon Rogue Heroes is a unique mix of rogue-like with dungeon exploration, RPG, tactics, and card combat from TERNOX. Finally, Aki joins the show to cover Tears of Avia, a turn based strategy and tactics RPG set in the beautiful world of Estera from CooCooSqueaky & PQube.
This episode features some music from the recently released Danse Macabre 7 from Sindravania Projects & Viking Guitar Productions!
Viking Guitar – Six Finger Shred (Gravity Falls) (Intermission)
Steel Samurai – Bloodstained Battlements (Bloodstained)