S4E27 - 2019 Summer Games and Movies - “Mario Maker 2, Spider-Man, Shadowbringers, and More”

Geek to Geek Podcast

In This Episode:

We discuss a bunch of the games and movies that are finally releasing this summer! We cover things like Mario Maker 2, Spider-Man Far From Home, FFXIV Shadowbringers, Magic The Gathering Arena Core Set 2020, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Stranger Things Season 3, and more. Plus we sneak in some bonus geekery near the end of the show and Beej gets a new furry friend.

• Things are finally releasing again! The late spring / early summer slump looks like it’s over.
• Mario Maker 2
  • BJ - Making levels is a lot more fun than I thought it would be
• • New components
    
  • Void likes infinite Mario levels with more variety, but I don’t really do the level building
  • We have an awesome Mario Maker 2 channel on our Discord server that you should totally join and share your creations!
  • Mario has always been Void's favorite platformer
  • The story mode is fun since you get ~100 levels designed by nintendo in the mario maker engine
  • BJ - I love just taking some time and seeing what the “Newest” ones that have been uploaded are. I think that’s the most fun to me. I’m not generally a fan of the most popular ones
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
  • Void forgot that he never really liked the PS1 era of Castlevania games. He is having a decent time with it but thinks he had more fun with the 8-bit version, Curse of the Moon.
  • This feels like a modern iteration of the PS1 era of Castlevania games, so if you really enjoyed Symphony of the Night and want a modern version of that, then you really can't go wrong here.
    
• Magic: The Gathering Arena - Core Set 2020
  • Core cards and concepts that relaunch for the year
  • They only use evergreen keywords
  • It’s made to be much more approachable for new players
  • Not as strong of a theme, which made more of an impact on Void than hethought. He didn’t realize how much the theme worked for him in the last few sets until he saw this core set that is basically theme-less.
  • Mastery pass is like a season pass for the mastery tree and gives you bonus rewards
  • Void is a bit less excited now that he sees what the Core Set 2020 is.
    • He was most excited for premade decks because he l --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geektogeekcast/support