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Sadly Reese was unwell this week so couldn't join us. Treyt was kind enough to jump in last week along with Colorado Weeks to discuss Final Fantasy X-2. Another oft-maligned sequel to a numbered final fantasy that happens to have an incredible soundtrack that is a bit left of center from what you'd usually find in a FF game, especially for the time but it's one that...

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Somehow this podcast has gone over 100 episodes and 4 years without us getting to Castlevania and it's not for a lack of love but here we are finally to talk about my favourite era of the series in the GBA/DS games and specifically Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow the back to back games right in the middle of the 6 and Atcero joins us...

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This week we're joined by Jett Swole to talk about a game/series I've wanted to do for ages but is fairly niche so it took me a while to find a guest. It's time to hop on Melty and talk about a fighting game spinoff of an erotic visual novel series, which is one of my favourite mi...

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Reese wasn't feeling the best — something about being stung by a bee — but she soldiered on and climbed into the vent with Robo, Zed and me to talk about Dead Rising, one of my literal favourite games of all time that has an iconic soundtrack which has been drilled into my head after entirely too many hours of exploring this one mall and we chop till...

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Just back with a quick mini to briefly talk about and listen to the very good but very short Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. My first Final Fantasy (though it wasn't called Final Fantasy in Europe) and it definitely set me on a path to being a huge FF fan in later years and the music has always been a...

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Just me and Reese this week and we're laying back and letting the bullets fly as we talk about Vampire Survivors, A game that took over my life for a few weeks post release and that sucks me back in regularly, in large part due to it's banging soundtrack of Castlevania inspired beats.

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Nurvuss returns and we don our battle biknis to talk about the Valis series. Some fairly average action platformers elevated to greatness by some cool anime aesthetics and banging soundtracks.

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This week we're joined by Jacob of the Worker's Lit podcast to talk some Hades! It's a cool game with very cool combat and a banger soundtrack (naturally) so give it a go and also go over to https://www.workerslit.com/ and check out Jacob's very fine podcast about some sort of non-podcast medium called a "book."

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We're here with a nice fun episode 100 to talk about the very first game we talked about 4 years ago. As I love this soundtrack so much and felt like I missed a lot of my favourites I thought it would be fun to go back and do it for our 100th episode. Just me and Reese but it's a fun chat as always!

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Tom's back from Shujin Academy and he brought treats in the form of the Street Fighter Zero (Alpha if you're nasty) soundtrack, it doesn't get quite the same shine as 2 or the 3 trilogy does but it's full of some real great tracks both original and arrangements of classic tunes. Come hang with us, it's a long one.

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Back for another little mini and this one has been sitting on my drive waiting to be edited for too long, sorry everyone! Anyway, Clustertruck is a cool indie game with a rad soundtrack and you should check both out!

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Jimmy's back to talk a bit about Hideki Naganuma, we've already done JSR of course but he's got plenty of other stuff that's well worth digging into and maybe Reese will finally get an answer to her question "what is a sample?" why not listen to find out?

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Mike McGrath-Bryan returns to chat about Namco's other major arcade and Playstation franchise in Ridge Racer 4. A phenomenal soundtrack filled with house, acid jazz, big beat and techno and listening to it makes you feel cool somehow, so come and be cool with us.

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Sorry for the delay on this one and thanks to Kay for joining us again! Was hyped to talk Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal and it turns out we had a lot more to chat about than expected so this was a bit of a long one. Enjoy!

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No guest this week! Just the original game music goblins. I've been thinking about DS music since we did Phoenix Wright and had a slot we needed to fill so I grabbed this old playlist that I've been looking for an excuse to use. The DS has some absolute classic soundtracks and so many of them just have a nice chill vibe so come hang and chill...

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Thuly returns to talk about one of the series that defined the Nintendo DS: Phoenix Wright and uh, these songs just bang. The series is in the pantheon of all time great OSTs in my estimation so I've been really hyped to talk about it for a while now. Uh, just don't get me started on Psychlocks because apparently it turns out it's a touchy...

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This week we are joined by Viv to talk about Guilty Gear Xrd. A great return for the series after being out in the cold and at least as far as the soundtrack does it barely misses a step from the previous games so we're ready to rock out, albiet sans-Bridget, much to Reese's disappointment

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Iach returns to talk about LSD Dream Emulator, a trippy PS1 game with some incredible electronic music as its soundtrack. The game itself is hard to describe but we do our best and really it's something you should see for yourself, even if just by a longplay.

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OCRemix's Larry Oji returns to take us through the 2026 Grammy nominations (featuring some OCRemix alumni!) and so much more. Join us for a long ramble about a bunch of different stuff, some of it even relevant to the subject!

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Operation Ragnarok (Zed Blade, if you're nasty) isn't much to talk about, it's a mediocre shooter that just happens to have an incredible soundtrack and is one of the early works of Manabu Namiki who is truly one of the best to ever do it, especially in the STG arena. So Jimmy returns to talk about basically anything but the game, and we have a...

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Ash is back to talk about Cyberpunk 2077, a fairly controversial game in many respects but something that absolutely is not controversial is how good the music is, both the licensed soundtrack and the original score have excellent tunes so when Ash suggested it I was only too happy to give it a go.

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Merry Christmas you filthy animals. Zed returns with a friend to talk about the delightful little snowboarding racer series Snowboard Kids and its attendant soundtrack of pretty great sounding N64 Music!

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Irish journalist and radio host Mike McGrath-Bryan joins us to talk about the Tekken 3 soundtrack and we have a nice long ramble about the game, its soundtrack and its impact on gaming back in the go-go 90s and it's a long 'un!

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This week, Justin from XVGM Radio joins us so we can finally talk about Jet Set Radio (Jet Grind Radio, if you're nasty) and the sick funky beats from Hideki Naganuma and pals including Mike D from the Beastie Boys

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Trev from No Cartridge returns and brings along Twitter's NBABabySecret to talk some Danganronpa! I've threatened to do this one for a while because the soundtrack goes ridiculously hard and so I was glad we were joined by 2 experts in the field to talk us through the game itself. If you enjoyed this, please also check out Trev and Sam on the No Cartridge podcast...

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Benny returns for simian shenanigans and we finally get to talk about the Ape Escape soundtrack, by one of the all time greats Soichi Terada. Join us as I get mad about genres, the eye toy and just the general club music vibe of the playstation.

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This week Illi joins us after being bullied into doing this episode and boin is along for the ride too! It's finally time to talk about Nier Automata and it's gorgeous soundtrack. Spoilers abound in this one so be warned!

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Professor Tom of Shujin Academy VGM Club returns to talk about some golfing games. While not fans of the real sport, there's a lot to be said for golf games, and in particular soundtracks to golf games. Join us for some chill, jazzy and funky tunes. Then go over to Tom's podcast to check out his golf episodes if you need a little more.

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Ashley returns this week to talk about Darktide, a horde shooter based in the grimdark future of Warhammer 40k and with an appropriately heavy soundtrack of industrial beats to keep the action moving and prevent too much heresy (idk any other 40k references, sorry)

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Teeps returns to talk about Shadow Hearts, one of the best RPGs for the PS2 and with a soundtrack that matches. With contributions by Yoshitaka Hirota and Yasunori Mitsuda it covers a lot of moods and genres. I also accidentally included some arrange tracks from the 2nd game unintentionally so enjoy that little preview of Covenant!

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Just another quick mini. We recorded this a fair while back and I was too lazy to edit it so here I am now with it! Back on the GBA it seemed that every big franchise had to get a portable entry, and this one from Zone of the Enders is an interesting one, ever since trying this out on an emulator I've always had...

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This week we enter the world of visual novels with some gorgeous soundtracks courtesy of Nurvuss who wanted to talk about the "gloomy Showa Jazz" of this series. As beautiful as it is gruesome and the music is absolutely stunning so even if you're not a VN enjoyer you will certainly enjoy the soundtracks!

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Mike's back! And it's time to talk about Final Fantasy IX. Apparently it's some kind of anniversary but I didn't plan it around that, it's just been an episode I've wanted to do for a while so when Mike called dibs it was time to get on it. Enjoy some of the best tunes on the PSX and some of Uematsu's best work period.

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Jay returns to talk about a bunch of different FM Synth games, as our resident expert on the technology it made sense to finally do an overview of how it's used in different systems while listening to some bangers.

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Reese is still out as she was mid-move during this recording but Thuly returned to talk about some Touhou games. If you've enjoyed our previous episode with Jay then buckle up for some more bullet hell bangers

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Scott returns on short notice for an episode on the original F-zero. Barely more than a tech demo but the songs on this game really showed what the hardware was capable of musically. Plus, despite Nintendo never really acknowledging the series for most of the last 20 years, the music has remained around as a mainstay in the Smash series as well as every video game cover project...

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This week Reese isn't with us, so I've drafted Dave as co-host and Iach joins us to talk about Cowboy Bebop in our first non-video game episode. I wanted to give an anime episode a try so it seemed only natural to talk about the soundtrack that first got me into listening to anime music so, 3, 2, 1 Let's Jam!

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This week we're joined by Gary from Duckfeed.tv to talk about the classic Phantasy Star games. We've previously covered PSO so it was great to go back and listen to the classic soundtracks, some really good Master System and Mega Drive tunes here!

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This week is a big one. By far our longest episode yet and we're talking about Video Game House Bands. It's fairly broad topic but generally these are bands formed in part from members of the sound teams for various companies, some are more official than others and this playlist is anything but comprehensive as far as these bands go, but it's already pushing the length as-is. Thanks again to Roar for joining us on this one.

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