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HELLLO we are back! But you knew that; this monthly practice is now commonplace. But who are \"we,\" as that matter is far from decided? Well I am Diamond Feit and joining me for February are Stuart Gipp and Jess O'Brien. Also joining us are a TON of news items, hence the extreme length of the podcast. Tune in to learn which Retronauts regular is Baby, hear Stuart apologize for cursing (followed by more cursing), and find out how Stuart DESTROYS me with MY OWN LOGIC?? Egads.

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

Art & edits by Diamond (photo source: Nobuo Uematsu on Twitter). Music heard in this episode:

", "contentSnippet": "HELLLO we are back! But you knew that; this monthly practice is now commonplace. But who are \"we,\" as that matter is far from decided? Well I am Diamond Feit and joining me for February are Stuart Gipp and Jess O'Brien. Also joining us are a TON of news items, hence the extreme length of the podcast. Tune in to learn which Retronauts regular is Baby, hear Stuart apologize for cursing (followed by more cursing), and find out how Stuart DESTROYS me with MY OWN LOGIC?? Egads.\nSpecific items mentioned in this episode include:\n\nmy intro makes light of Nobuo Uematsu's Valentine's Day tacos\n\nJess & Stu both appeared on Episode 591 (but I did not)\n\nNever forget who produced Age Ain't Nothing But A Number\u00a0\n\nHigh on Life 2\n\nread Alec Robbins' comics! (some are NSFW)\n\n\nMewgenics and its \"problematic meows\"\n\nRomeo is a Dead Man from Suda51/Grasshopper\n\nwatch the 2019 NHM3 trailer\n\n\n\u00a0Jubensha, Worms Against Humanity, and Alice is Missing\n\n.Hack//Infection\n\nnew game .hack//Z.E.R.O. JUST announced when we recorded this\n\n\nvarious Silent Hill games and the recent movie\n\nRetronauts Live Episode 26 in Oct 2011 (!) covered the ENTIRE series (!!)\n\na teaser for Jess' RiffTrax of Silent Hill (2006)\n\nno Japanese theatrical release for the new flick, straight to streaming\n\n\n\u30b0\u30e9\u30a6\u30a8\u30f3\u306e\u9ce5\u7c60 aka \"Birdcage of Horrors\"\n\nrecently translated internet drama released online in Japan via the Dreamcast\n\nit's even on Letterboxd!\n\n\nLovish (new game from Labsworks & Matt Kap)\n\nmy 2017 stream of Kuso remains online\n\n\nBanjo: Recompiled for Windows, Linux, and Mac\n\nMinecraft for the Sega Saturn\n\nFinal Fantasy on GOG:\n\nFinal Fantasy III & IV (3D Remakes)\n\nFinal Fantasy VIII Remastered\n\nFinal Fantasy IX (not in Japan)\n\n\nDino Crisis 1 & 2 dropped on Steam!?\n\nGOG.com listed as \"developer\"\n\nWikipedia says Dino Crisis 3 does not feature \"real dinosaurs\" but \"mutations\"\n\nI say [quietly] none of this is \"real\"\n\n\ndon't buy Code Violet, SGF already did\n\nStu's mystery game is out now: Tokyo Scramble (the dinos are called Zinos)\n\n\nRayman: 30th Anniversary Edition from Digital Eclipse\n\n2D action game God of War: Sons of Sparta dropped during State of Play\n\nfrom Mega Cat Studios/Sony Santa Monica\n\n\nPC-98 \"visual novel\" Shizuku English patch\n\nturned 30 in January\n\nnote the game is NSFW!\n\n\nBangai-O for N64 English patch\n\nHamster introduces CONSOLE Archives bringing old console games to modern platforms\n\nParanormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, out now!\n\nthe setting is indeed a fictional island, \"Kameshima\" (\u4e80\u5cf6)\n\nMie Prefecture, Tsu City, and the Ise area are all real though!\n\n\nAlex coming to Street Fighter 6 in March, has his own anime theme song\n\nalso gets a new \"Jazzy NYC\" arrangement\n\n\nObey the Insect God coming to PC\n\ntop Youtube comment: \"Close enough, welcome back Mortal Kombat Mythologies.\"\n\n\nTomodachi Life: Living the Dream takes steps towards inclusion!\n\nI wrote about the previous controversy in a column three years ago\n\nBUT Nintendo is crippling online image sharing??\n\n\nunreleased Virtual Boy games Zero Racers & D-Hopper coming to Switch Online\n\nthe official shell/viewer is optional but the display is stereoscopic\n\nDIY solutions are already out in the wild\n\n\nSony State of Play\n\nTime Crisis (PS1) coming in May to PS+\n\nSebmal (@mrdo.pro on BlueSky) is the \"originator of #crisisposting\"\n\nRichard Miller, Dick Miller, same guy\n\n\nDead or Alive 6 Last Round coming in June\n\n\"I'm shortening \"jiggle physics\" to \"jigfizz\" and you should too!\"\n\nStuart Gipp heartily endorses FlipWitch\n\n\nMetal Gear Master Collection Vol 2 coming in August\n\nMGS4, Peace Walker (HD), & Ghost Babel (is that \"BAYbel\" or \"babble\"?)\n\nmy Twitter is locked but you can still see Maddie in the MGS box\n\n\nCastlevania: Belmont's Curse????????\n\nthe JP producer kept saying \u30ad\u30e3\u30c3\u30b9\u30eb\u30f4\u30a1\u30cb\u30a2 not \u60aa\u9b54\u57ce\u30c9\u30e9\u30ad\u30e5\u30e9\n\nBrian Clark's \"The Fate of Castlevania\" video, now more relevant than ever\n\n\nSilent Hill Townfall coming 2026\n\ndeveloped by Screen Burn (formerly No Code) in Glasgow\n\n\nKonami also dropped Super Bomberman Collection (worldwide)\n\nGanbare Goemon Daish\u016bg\u014d coming to PS5, Switch, & Steam\n\nJP only but you can always import a disc/cart\n\n\n\nJohn Wick game (no date) developed by Saber Interactive\n\nJohn Wick Chronicles (VR) came out in 2017, Hex came out in 2019\n\nmultiple cameos in other games like Call of Duty & Fortnite\n\nBallerina gets a thumbs up from me despite my caveats\n\nno shooting in this clip, it's GRENADES ONLY\n\n\n\nGod of War Trilogy Remake coming someday\n\nliterally zero footage, just some logos\n\n\n\ndoes anyone want a Tecmo Bowl movie\n\nStu invites you all to enjoy this Family Guy sequence\n\n\n\"School RPG\" Villion:Code coming in June (to Japan)\n\nSMT/Persona veterans on the staff: Koji Okada, Tasashi Satomi, Tsukasa Masuko\n\nKyoto Xanadu also coming in \"summer 2026\"\n\n\nKensuke Tanabe says Metroid Prime 4 is his last game at Nintendo\n\nTanabe believes Risa Tabata will take over his future projects\n\n\nHideki Konno has also seemingly left Nintendo after (nearly) 40 years\n\nupdated his Facebook last summer to indicate his departure\n\n\nNetflix pulling the plug on the PS3 app on March 2\n\nis Xbox 360 oldest supported platform at this point?\n\n\nJurassic Park Classic Games Collection delisting March 31\n\nSony wants to patent \"LLM-Based Generative Podcasts for Gamers\"?\n\nPolygon published a fun piece about this crap\n\n\nKeiji Inafune's studio Comcept shuts down\n\nUbisoft hates people, video games, and art\n\n\"at least 1,200 employees\" went on strike in protest of these moves\n\n\nRiot Games lays off 80 devs after releasing free-to-play fighting game 2XKO in January\n\nWildlight Entertainment says hold my beer, lays off \"most of\" the Highguard team\n\nthe game's website also went down after we recorded this\n\n\nRIP Shilo Prychak, co-founder of New Wave Toys\n\nShilo guested on Episode 404 to discuss Replicade\n\n\nRIP Hideki Sato, former Sega president and \"father of Sega hardware\"\n\nRIP Shutaro Iida aka Curry the Kid\n\nthe curry-throwing Castlevania skeletons are an \"homage\" to Iida\n\nKoji Igarashi on Twitter: \"It is no exaggeration to say that many titles that are considered masterpieces would not have been possible without his contributions.\"\n\nIida's final tweet: \"The end is near. I'm in pain and grow weaker each day. Please love the upcoming Bloodstained 2 and the games I previously made.\"\n\n\ntalk of Mr. X in Resident Evil 2 leads to Metroid Dread complaints\n\nby the time you read this RE9UIEM is less than one week away\n\ncan you think of other games that imitate RE2's Zapping System? Tell us!\n\n\nLucky Luke originated in Belgium although the cartoonist did work with others\n\nthe creator died in 2001 and the current writer is French\n\n\nSam Barlow has two unnamed projects in the works:\n\none collaboration with Brandon Cronenberg\n\nanother tagged as survival horror\n\nHalf Mermaid is Barlow's NY studio\u00a0\n\n\nArt & edits by Diamond (photo source: Nobuo Uematsu on Twitter). Music heard in this episode:\n\n7:54 \"Age Ain't Nothing But A Number\" as performed by a literal child\n\n18:34 \"Born to Be Wild\" (\u611b\u3068\u53cb\u60c5\u306e\u30cd\u30b3\u7269\u8a9e\u3002 \u30b8\u30f3\u30b0\u30eb\u30ad\u30e3\u30c3\u30c4 \u30e9\u30d6\u30d1\u30e9\u5927\u4f5c\u6226\u306e\u5dfb)\n\n33:46 \"You're Not Here\" (Silent Hill 3)\n\n44:49 \"Hello Zepp\" (the Saw music that we all know and love)\u00a0\n\n51:58 \"Kingdom of Birds\" (Lovish)\n\n1:02:58 speaking of Minmo\n\n1:13:00 \"GO! ALEX! Hope is Born!\" by JAM Project\n\n1:36:20 \"The Beginning\" (Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania)\n\n1:52:39 audio from the Kyoto Xanadu website\n\n2:22:43 \"You're Not Alone\" (Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow)\n\n2:33:55 modded enhanced audio from Resident Evil 2 (2019)\n\n2:49:32 \"If U Can't Dance\" (Spice World, PS1)\n\n2:56:22 \"Tower of Dolls\" (fan remix)\n\nFinale: \"Powerful Baby\" (That's the real title, I looked it up!)", "guid": "151347342", "isoDate": "2026-02-22T12:00:15.000Z", "itunes": { "duration": "11297", "image": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/151347342/7338a54b01494b7a8f338bfa4aa0cc75/eyJkIjo3MiwiaCI6MzAwMCwic3RyaXBfYWxwaGEiOjEsInciOjMwMDAsIndlYnAiOjB9/1.png?token-hash=FeGV7eOHqRgyo7G0V5EHN4DvSBf5_oJeJT1zMZw9uII%3D" }, "itunes_duration": "3:08:16" }