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The King is dead… handsome, that is! Long live the King (Knight)! Shovel Knight: King of Cards What is the plot? In a peaceful time before knights menaced the land, a card tournament was organized. Everyone is playing Joustus, and King Knight seeks to prove his mettle/be showered in treasure by becoming the King of Cards. Of course, King Knight is a bit of a brute, so his plan to win this card…

You come at the king, you best at least be interesting. BEAT was on vacation for a couple weeks, so, amid our Skies of Arcadia marathon, I decided to give Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire a go. As Even Worse Streams faithful are aware, the Dreamcast produced a number of singular gaming experiences, and recent years have seen some of these franchises revisited with modern sensibilities. Bomb Rush…

Do not crush Chibi-Robo! Our dear, little robo was recently released on the Gamecube Virtual Console, so, while BEAT was taking a break from our upcoming (for the site) pirateathon, I piloted Chibi-Robo through his opening areas. And, obviously, this leads to an extended conversation about Bible protagonists and their Pokémon, an oral history of Love-de-Lic, the relative flatness of the moon, and…

Here, at the end of Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, we must eulogize the last good thing about Lunar: Magic Emperor Ghaleon is the best. A lot of Ghaleon’s appeal has been crystalized into well-worn anime/RPG tropes. Yes, he is the dude with silver hair and giant shoulder pads that will eventually be revealed to be working against the party. Yes, his evil plan seems to exist entirely to…

We’ve got Plok! We’ve got Grandpappy Plok! We’ve got… fleas? Whatever! After talking about it far too much during the Tony Hawkathon, I tackle Plok, the 16-bit platformer. It might be the best Euro-Platformer for the Super Nintendo! You heard me, Harley’s Humongous Adventure! So join Cassandralyn, fanboymaster, BEAT, Chromes, Jeanie, Trynant, Caliscrub, and Ample Vigour to discuss important…

Marvel at this Playstation adaptation of a Playstation 2 game. Created by the developers of Grind Session (check a couple of weeks back), this version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 tells the tale of “what if Tony Hawk was skating around a world after the activation of a neutron bomb… and at night.” Non playable characters are gone, the lighting is a little dimmer, but it is still Tony Hawk’s from…

Even Worse Steams’ own Caliscrub asked the question… “Goggle Bob, which would you say are the good Mana games?” And the answer to that question? It’s complicated! So we are taking the next few weeks to run through a sampling of all the Mana titles. They are all very different! And BEAT hates all of them! But some of them might be good! We are starting with… Final Fantasy Adventure aka Seiken…

We went through a weird month there where we were playing games right as they came out. We’re not usually that up with current events! But it happened, so we may as well talk about it. Let’s Play Bakeru September 3, 2024 I couldn’t wait to get my Legend of the Mystical Ninja on, so we played Bakeru fresh from the Nintendo download. Please join fanboymaster, BEAT, Cassandralyn, Chromes, AJ Vark,…