This week, we talk about Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World. We have been excited about this one ever since it was announced, and Beej was excited even before that--having called it as being a part of the 40th Anniversary stream in an episode a few weeks back.

We don't know a lot of info about the game yet, but there is a pretty good amount we can read between the lines from the teaser, seeing Bianca and Nera, as well as previous installments in the Monsters series.

Are you as excited as we are for this one?

Also, we have a shoutout to our friend Ryan Molina for the physical release of his PS4 game, Popcorn Rocket. It's available on Amazon, digital across various platforms, and you can read about it when he talks about its production on Substack.

We are also doing a giveaway for Book 4 of the new DQ Erdrick manga, so if you want a chance to win that, just comment on this post. We'll be giving one away to Patrons and one to the general public (and maybe more, depending on our moods! haha)

It's Dragon Quest Day, and like we had hoped, Dragon Quest XII was revealed, and we got our first look at the next mainline installment of our favorite series. Here's what to expect from our reactions and commentary:

• Title change. No longer Flames of Fate. Beyond Dreams instead.
• Completely started over from scratch.
• Protag design
• Character designs
• No release date, so see you in 2030
• New Monsters game with Bianca and Nera, coming out before DQ12 but no date yet. On all current platforms.

In this episode, we talk about what might be Austin's game of the year. Yeah, already. This early. Apparently, LEGO Batman is just that good. We reminisce about Arkham games and Spider-man, as well as other LEGO games and how this newest installment really takes the best of all of them and puts them in a pretty amazing package.

This week, we dig deep into some of the best DQ games that aren't available for console. Whether it's tactics games, rails combat, or TCG battlers, there's something here for everyone. Unless they cancel it while you're still enjoying it, which is more than likely what will happen.

This year is the 40th anniversary of Dragon Quest, and we are talking about what we hope to see and what we expect to see during the Dragon Quest Day presentations in May. We're hoping for DQ12, like every fan in the world, but what else do we think will pop up for the anniversary?

Let us know what you expect and hope to see, too!

Let's go back. Way back. Back to the very beginning. Well, not THE beginning, but pretty close. Super Mario Bros was one of the very first games either of us played, and it was fundamental in shaping who we were (are) as people. For real.

We go through the history of Pokemon Red & Blue, from our perspectives as we experienced it when the games were new. This is a new subseries of episodes we're going to be doing regularly, going over the games that made a difference to you--and us--over the years.

This week, we're playing a game. Austin has put together a great list of true/false questions about Dragon Quest (and about us IRL) to see if BJ knows which are true and which are false. Many laughs and much fun ensues. Play along and see if you can beat the Questy Boys at their own game!

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