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What ho adventurers! It’s Part 2 of the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Spoiler Special! And in this episode, our intrepid gamers Jonathan & Kaspar are diving even deeper in the stories and the world of Hyrule 7 years post-Calamity!

They discuss their favourite Side Quests, Side Adventures & NPCs. They discuss the evolution of the world, and why Nintendo ‘re-using’ the Hyrule map of Breath of the Wild is a stroke of genius!

So many wonderful characters to love and so many incredible stories to be a part of, and J&K are here to tell you about ALLLLLLL of it!

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Would you like to know what we’ve been playing over our extended Summer hiatus?

How far into his Master Mode run of Breath of the Wild did Jonathan get?

How many consecutive days has Chris played Daily Dadish?

Has Mr Dunn gone Playstation 5 or Steam Deck for Diablo IV?

What about the recent Switch port made Vampire Survivors suddenly click for Chris?

How does Brotato hold up against its vampiric inspiration?

What on earth is the Uzebox, and why has Mr Dow been playing Tetris upon it?

What makes Tents and Trees Jonathan’s logic puzzle du jour?

How does New Star GP hold up against its sibling, the GOAT New Star Soccer?

Is Blasphemous 2 a trim too far when compared to its predecessor?

Have the brothers Dow actually finished their 2 year long playthrough of Plants Vs Zombies?!

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Are you still knee-deep into Tears of the Kingdom and perhaps crafting that perfect Hoverbike, hunting those nefarious Bubbulfrogs, or diving to grab a Korok seed instead of destroying Ganondorf and finding the princess?

Then you might want to stay clear of this episode for now, because we are talking about EVERYTHING! Consider yourself warned, this is the spoileriest of spoiler episodes.

In part 1:

- We talk about the first Zelda game we played and why we love the series.
- Find out which one of us tackled the geoglyph memories out of order and which one did it chronologically.
- Find out where we think TotK falls on the Zelda Timeline (nah, not really, who cares?)
- Hear us explore the story beat by beat and share why we think the narrative in this game is so much more compelling than in Breath of the Wild.
- Hear us talk about what we think is the single greatest moment in video game history. (hint: It’s vertiginous!)

We originally planned on talking about many more things in episode 1, but it turns out we love this game so much and praising every aspect takes a lot of time, so please come join us for the next ones, where we will be talking about Side-Adventures, Side-Quests, Shrines, Temples, Purah, Sidon, Thirst Traps and everything in between!

Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp, William Worthington, Jason Scott and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

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We’re back!

Kind of!

In this pre-season, episode zero kind of dealio, we lay out a few changes that will be part of the upcoming season 6, and try to be as honest as we can about why we’ve had to rock the boat a little in order to keep the ol’ girl sailing.

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Bing bleedin’ bong, it’s the end of the season, and by GUM do we have a lot stuffed into this finale for you.

A FULL RUNDOWN AND RANKING OF ALL 26 PLAYDATE SEASON ONE GAMES

A BEST OF THE REST TOP FIVE RANKING OF SIDELOADED / CATALOG PLAYDATE TITLES

BARELY A BREATH BETWEEN US

Which games ended up tippity top and which games ended up bippity bottom? How many times does Chris mention Fish’n Feathers? Can anything save Lost Your Marbles from taking the bottom spot?

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Boy oh boy! How are these two boys getting on with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? What new marvels have they unearthed? What new ways of solving puzzles have they found? Just how mad are their respective strategies for approaching every single little thing in the game?

Find out!!

But also find out:

How Chris is faring with Dadish - a daily GBA-inspired run-based charm-em-up!

How Jonathan is faring with Tomb Raider: Reloaded - the ongoing microtransaction-free freemium game.

How Chris’ lizard brain is being satiated with the repetitive cleansing of Power Wash Simulator

You better believe there’s more too!

Enjoy!

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp, William Worthington, Jason Scott and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

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Just as Panic saw fit to bestow Playdate owners with 2 free games via their on-device Catalog store, so too do we at O3C bestow upon you reviews of said free games to extend our season coverage of the Playdate.

Reel Steal and Recommendation Dog both arrive via a mentorship programme run in conjunction between Sweet Baby Inc and Panic that looks to give industry opportunity to fledging designers, artists and musicians, but are the two games actually any good?

ALSO: Thoughts on a whole range of Catalog releases including Skwish, Down the Oubliette, A Balanced Brew and MORE.

ALSO ALSO: That Zelda is still incredible, right? (No big spoilers here, but skip to 12:10 if you’ve yet to start Nintendo’s epic and want to go in ICE COLD.)

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I know it’s only May, but shall we just announced our Game of the Year now?

Let Chris and Jonathan fill you in on their initial thoughts on Tears of the Kingdom’s opening few hours.

(It’s astonishing.)

SPOILER WARNING: Whilst we don’t go into serious detail about the game’s plot or questlines outside of vague allusions to opening tasks and challenges, we do talk about mechanics and the general topography of the world. If you want to play TotK cold, maybe wait until you’ve played for a few hours before listening!

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And with that, we reach games number 23 and 24 in Playdate’s Season One.

Jonathan and Chris tackle both the rotational take on Arkanoid that is b360, and the Link’s Awakening love letter that is Ratcheteer.

Are we going out on a high?

Also! The boys cover a billion other Playdate games released via outside of the main season, as well as the official Playdate Podcast.

How did they fare with The King’s Dungeon? Tapeworm Disco Puzzle? Skew? Grand Tour Legends?

And why is Sparrow Solitaire so, so, so, SO, SO good?!

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What better way to celebrate the coronation of KING CHARLES THE RUDDY THIRD than by wrapping your oversized plate-ears around this latest offering from O3C Games! We’re filling each other in on our gaming activity of the last fortnight since last we chatted - and it’s the usual eclectic mix of genres and qualities!

JD chats Vampire Survivors, Tomb Raider and a variety of indie games and Metroidvanias!

CD chats Minecraft, Sonic Frontiers, Mixalumia and Shadows of the Damned! 

Obviously!

Enjoy!

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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp, William Worthington, Jason Scott and the gang at Chat of the Wild!

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