Dunce (Dunce) Revolution
Some grade-A dunces provide the most lukewarm takes ever put to recorded sound about that age old hobby horse, video games.
Episodes
97 episodes
Big Walk: Talking the walk
Perhaps the greatest challenge is managing to get four adults with distinct schedules to repeatedly chunk out three hours of time for multiple nights across two weeks to play a co-op video game about walking and talking through puzzles, but dan...
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Fields of Mistria: Now with 50% more Stardew!
It takes a big man to admit when you're wrong, but unfortunately, I'm trying to reduce.No, but in all seriousness, in the scant few days since we recorded and are now posting this episode much of the optimization and framerate issues hav...
Splatoon Raiders: Not an inkstraction shooter after all
There was once a quote about how "a house divided cannot stand," and I am not going to look up the exact quote because I am extremely lazy and it helps show that this isn't eh-aye content generated churn - you know one of those clankers would h...
ZERO PARADES for Granblue Fantasy: Spy harder
It's a pretty good week in terms of wasting hard-earned yet specious currency on a digital medium that a whole lot of techno-bourgeoisie would like to be purely digital (how typical!).Personalism [10] FAILURE- [ That joke y...
No Discs For Old Men
I mean, surely you've heard the news.We're not going to sit here and tell you something bombastic like, "It's the death of video games!" or anything like that. It's honestly just one console manufacturer feeling a little bold and trying ...
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The Adventures of Elliot: Zelda but make it chatty
"Why must everything be so nutso-buttso expensive!" is the question on our minds as we post this episode. The Steam Machine turned out to be a bit pricier than most people hoped, GTA6 is launching at 80 dollars - Thanks Mario Kart! - or a whole...
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Batman, Bond, and Forza - Yeah, I'm thinking we're back
May is apparently chock full of goodness as we discuss three titles that totally impressed us: Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Forza Horizon 6 007 First Light Seriously...
Mixtape - uh oh, emotions!
We go on a real rambler this episode. I mean some all time tangents.But Porter, who always has his finger on the pulse (I really had to resist making that into a stupid joke) saw not only went to the theater and saw that new Mortal Komba...
Saros: Faces melting in the sun
We're talking about Saros, that action shooter rogue-light developed for the PS5 by Housemarque and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment (and who says "the PlayStation has no games"?) We really dig the combat and the zippy pace of the ga...
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Vampire Crawlers is GOTY material
I think that episode title says it all.But, we don't stop with just one great indie game, because we also chat about Titanium Court, which is pretty, pretty, pretty good.And then for some inexplicable reason, Buzz went and played ...
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Pragmata: Jiminy Jillikers! A brand new IP!?
We cover a lot of ground in this episode, as we finally reconvene to talk about that really good Star Fox movie hidden inside a kind of mediocre sugar rush of a Mario sequel film.Buzz has also been living a cozy experience on a low stake...
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Dunce (Dunce) Dungeon: Critical Role
We at one point compare it to the adult entertainment industry, and it makes a lot of sense in context, and for that I am feeling really proud.
Nippon Ichi Software and Mahjong - two great tastes that taste great together!
It's a real potpourri of topics since it's that quiet period between big monthly releases, but at least we'll always have Mahjong.We also get a bit topical and talk about the mass layoff at Epic, the Sony console price hikes, and the upc...
Crimson Desert - "Having a blast"
That was a lie. As it turns out, he was not having a blast.Also, in before even more drama with Pearl Abyss surfaces around things like undisclosed AI inclusion, the rancid control scheme (RIP M&K players), and the ongoing conga line...
Pokémon Pokopia Papadopoulos
69: 1. And so Pokémon Pokopia turned to its fellow disciple and said, "Lo Donkey Kong, though thou hast fought hard and strong to justify the purchase of a same feeling console, now is the time for thine rest."2. And Pokopia ...
Resident Evil Requiem - Bingo
RE9 is really good and I don't feel the need to elaborate.Also you might be wondering why we refer to things that have already come out in this episode as if we are looking forward to them, and that's because our editor, who is also me, ...
Yakuza Kiwami 3 - Simply reheat and eat!
Sorry, I was busy praying at the altar I made in the back of my non-walk-in closet to Leon S. Kennedy and almost forgot to post this episode.Anyway, besides talking about the ever important subject of "What if The Sopranos, but Muppets?"...
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined for your pleasure
We're entering a "when it rains, it pours" kind of February with releases, but the starting sprinkle is an interesting, if somehow improbably slimmed down yet still bloated, take on an old DQ classic - Dragon Quest VII Reimagined. SE is very in...
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Highguard, more like Midguard
Hey, at least we're at that point in the year where we can start looking forward to games actually releasing! February seems to be a pretty packed month, what with a "re-imagined" Dragon Quest VII, Yakuza 3 getting the Kiwami treatment, Nioh go...
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Nintendo, are you OK?
We ask the titular hard hitting question as we enter 2026 with our Switch 2 in hand, because between egregious DLC (Pokemon Legends Z-A and Donkey Kong Bananza), overpriced upgrade packages for half a decade old titles, and the totally "necessa...
The Top Ten Games of 2025
As it is ordained in the old texts, we have come together in the new year to compare our top ten games of 2025. We have crafted these lists independently, in total seclusion, to ensure that we are provided the purest and freshest lists for your...
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The Game Awards 2025
We descend into that languid period of the year where the earth lies fallow and we begin to digest and churn what was Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards. The wire acrobatics, the career ending affair with a porcine muppet, and a jilted lover in t...
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond the pale
Nah, it's actually pretty good, especially if you prefer the Prime series over the "MetroidVania" 2D entries.We cover a handful of late 2026 titles before dusting off the old crystal ball and telling who will win (or at least should win)...
Dispatch: Send in the clowns
Man, that was a dry and dusty-musty Black Friday/Cyber Monday, with nary a deal to be found. Sort of the slow part of the year in general really. Don't worry though, we aren't talking about Geoff Keighley's the Game Awards...yet.Neverthe...
Dragon Quest I & II: Did you ever know that you're my hero?
After an abysmal time with Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Buzz was saved from the worst ending thanks to the goddess of game release schedules saving the best for last: Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake!Porter takes a t...
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