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Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 362: Drakengard
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Cavia-developed, cult-classic hack-and-slash RPG for the PS2 that, eventually, gave us Nier: Automata.
Cleopatra Fortune
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/cleopatra-fortune/A falling-block puzzle game, with an Egyptian theme and characteristically catchy Zuntata soundtrack.
Dog of Bay (Japanese Video Game Obscurity)
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dog-of-bay-japanese-video-game-obscurity/An early PS2 rhythm game starring an array of anthropomorphic dogs.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 128: Home Alone (SMS)
Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games. (The numbering is out of order to get this out for the holidays!)
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 124: Dead Rising
Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.
Gekirindan
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gekirindan/After the closure of Toaplan, its staff scarred to the wind to different companies. This was a one-shot developed in conjunction with Taito, though it's hardly either company's best effort.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 361: Marvel's Spider-Man
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Insomniac's Spider-Man to end all Spider-Men.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 360: Axelay
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Konami's SNES shoot-em-up masterpiece.
Paradise Killer
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/paradise-killer/An indie murder mystery with a vaporwave aesthetic, and one of the best indie games of the year.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 359: Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance - A Forgotten Realms™ Fantasy Role-Playing Epic, Vol. I
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the CRPG that's worth its weight in gold. Also, we're overloaded with gold so please, just take it.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 123: Frog Fractions
Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.
Advent Rising
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/advent-rising/A sci-fi action game from the mid-2005s, which was planned as an epic trilogy...and never quite got there.
Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/zero-the-kamikaze-squirrel/A spinoff of the Aero the Acrobat games, featuring a (questionably designed) Japanese squirrel.
Aero the Acrobat 2
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/aero-the-acrobat-2/Aero the Acrobat returns in a game that's better in some ways and worse in others.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 358: Quake
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game that taught us how to bank nails off the wall.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 357: Gothic
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a 2001 action CRPG that glitched its way into our cold, podcast host hearts.
Aero the Acrobat
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/aero-the-acrobat/Aero the Acro-Bat, Sunsoft's attempt at a 16-bit mascot platformer.
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/13-sentinels-aegis-rim/Vanillaware's ambitious sci-fi epic that collapses under its narrative weight.
Patreon Postcards, Recent Books, and Plans for 2021
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/patreon-postcards-recent-books-and-plans-for-2021/An update for the Patreon postcards we'll be producing this month, a recap of the books we've put out this year, and news for upcoming projects in 2021!
Superepic
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/superepic/An indie Metroidvania that's also a satire of the current mobile game landscape.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 356: Samurai Pizza Cats
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a Japan-only, Tecmo-developed NES game about a cult classic faux-dubbed anime.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 355: Sonic Spinball
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the game where Sonic the Hedgehog is back, in pinball form.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 122: Nosferatu
Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Bonus Get 121: Dungeonmans
Join the HG101 gang as they add another Patreon-only bonus game to their ever growing list of Top Games.
Phantom Dust
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/phantom-dust/An usual title that originated as an Xbox exclusive, something like Magic the Gathering (the collectible card game) meets Virtual On (the one-on-one arena combat game).
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 354: Far Cry 3
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game about a guy who truly needs a vacation from his vacation.
Amid Evil
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/amid-evil/This retro-style FPS is a send-up of 90s fantasy games, the likes of Heretic and Hexen.
Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 302: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a story about a man, his brother, his cocaine, and Gary Busey.
Lockdown Longplay 5: A Conversation with Finji's Rebekah Saltsman
Another bonus for you: a conversation with Rebekah Saltsman, cofounder and CEO of indie publisher Finji (Overland, A Night in the Woods, Tunic) for this fifth (and truly final?) episode of Lockdown Longplay!
Powerslave
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/powerslave-pc/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/powerslave-console/An Egyptian-themed FPS using the Build engine. The console version is wildly different, so it's covered as a different game.
