Ep. 241 - Octoplath Traveler, with Allegra Frank

Deputy editor of The Daily Beast Allegra Frank joins the panel to cover Kirby adults, Pokemon Gonlyfans, and whether or not demons are cool.

Questions this week:

1. Does adapting a story focused on choice into another medium cheapen player agency? (04:58)
2. Where does the Kirby franchise go from here? (13:19)
3. What’s happened with Pokemon Go in the last six years since anyone played it? (20:13)
4. Which video game character would you pick to guest host Saturday Night Live? (26:58)
5. Are demons cool? (32:02)
6. Kyle asks: Which famous writer would be best at writing a video game walkthrough? (41:36)
7. Tim asks: who cares? (48:42)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As: Dragon Age Inquisition (49:35)

Recommendation & Outro (01:00:44)

Pokemon Go to the forums to discuss this episode!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Demonschool by Necrosoft Games, now wishlistable on Steam
• Dornie
• Super Mario 64
• Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Yoshi
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
• F For Fake (1973)
• The Walking Dead
• BioShock
• Dragon Age series
• Mass Effect series
• Life Is Strange series
• Halo
• Kirby games
• Kirby Air Ride
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Pokémon universe
• Pokémon GO
• Mongo only pawn in game of life
• Cork
• The Human Toll Of Fallout 76’s Disastrous Launch
• Marcus Michael Fenix
• George Steinbrenner
• Big Boss
• Solid Snake
• Dr. Hal “Otacon” Emmerich
• Demonschool
• Shin Megami Tensei series
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
• Persona series
• Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
• Final Fight: “Streetwise”
• Ernest Hemingway
• Homer
• Beowulf
• Salman Rushdie
• Jonathan Franzen
• Conker’s Bad Fur Day
• Sylvia Plath
• Warlock
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Miguel de Cervantes

Recommendations:

Brandon: F For Fake (1973), Desiccation’s Cold Dead Earth,

Tim: This lunchtime photograph, Don’t call yourself a flexitarian

Allegra: Freeze then thaw your tofu

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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Allegra Frank. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.