From opposite sides of the globe, your hosts Kiaran and Adam are on a mission to work through their enormous backlog of video games. In each episode they take on a game one (or both) of them have never finished before and get together to discuss their impressions. Was it good? Was it bad? Is it worth keeping on your backlog? Tune in to find out on The Good, the Bad, and the Backlog.
Who is Ethan Carter and where the heck has he gone? Adam and Kiaran are on the case to solve the mystery of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Tune in to find out if we found him, and whether the mystery is worth solving.
Grab your pillows and slip on your pink polka dot boxers, we've got a tower of nightmares to climb! Tune in to find out what we thought of Catherine classic and Catherine Full Body.
We're back and unleashing our inner graffiti artists with this PlayStation 4 exclusive: Concrete Genie. Does this game turn out to be an unappreciated gem from a now-defunct studio? or was it rightfully forgotten? Tune in to find out!
We've made it to 100 episodes! For this very special episode we've merged a mailbag Q&A with our GOTY episode to answer listener questions, award prizes to the best games of the year under various categories, and we give away brand new GBB merch!
Press X to Doubt. We're travelling back in time to 1947 to become detectives in Team Bondi's only game: L.A. Noire.
Stone the crows! We played Death's Door developed by the talented magicians: Fenn & Foster. Is this a door worth opening or is the gameplay so challenging it'll hit you on the ass on the way out? Tune in to find out!
If you're sensing a Dark Presence don't panic, it's only us back again with a brand new episode as we tackle the Remedy classic: Alan Wake (Remastered)! How does it stack up to the original? Is it as good as one of us remembers? Tune in to find out!
What's this? A game about Enoch Powell the British politician from the 70's? Or is it about the blind guy Denzel Washington played who was really into the bible? or is it about the many breasted one? I'm afraid the answer is 'none of the above', but strap yourselves in for the fever dream that is El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron!
What's that? You want Revenge? You want some Vengeance? How about some REVENGEANCE! *cue electric guitars* This episode we continue our journey through the Metal Gear franchise and finally get the chance to play Platinum Games' entry in the series: Metal Gear Rising Revengeance!
It's time to don your gillie suits and beat your chest like a macho bro-man because we played our very first Call of Duty game! Are we butch enough to fit in with the US Marines and SAS dudes? Will we understand the appeal of military first person shooters? Who knows, but what we do know is if John Lennon had his way, there would be no peace.
What is 'yomi'? Is this game good? What time does the 3:10 to Yuma leave? Can Japanese people hear each other having sex behind those paper doors? We ask the important questions in this episode because we played: Trek to Yomi!
We finally did it. We finally completed the Team Ico trilogy! Tune in to find out what we thought of the final entry in the Ico trilogy, and how it stacks up against its predecessors.
In this episode Adam is joined by our old friend Chris Coplien from the Retro Hangover podcast! We step back to 1996 to see how "good" this allegedly under-appreciated SuperNintendo JRPG actually is!
We're back again dipping our toes into the wet spot on the gaming bedsheet that is Leisure Suit Larry. After our last notorious foray with Box Office Bust, how will we feel about a Larry game that gets back to the gameplay roots (hehe) of point-and-dick... er... click?.
That's right, we're back with another Metal Gear Solid game! This is the fifth in our journey through the series, how does it stack up to the previous entries? Does it have a good story? Will we actually enjoy the gameplay? Tune in to find out!
Grab those lightsabers and adjust those crooked jaws! We played Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and it was certainly a game.
Kiaran has been expelled from Hogwarts and for this episode Adam is instead joined by a very special guest! Grab your cloaks of invisibility and top up your goblets of fire with more Pepsi Max, we're in for a magical broomstick ride through the Harry Potter open world adventure: Hogwarts Legacy!
It's a dystopian 1996 and you're a teen, can make it over the border for a better life or will you fall victim to one of the many threats along the way as you hitchhike to your freedom? Find out how we fared in this wild hitchhiking simulator!
Another episode and another special guest! This time Shane Koski from the Retro Hangover podcast joins Adam to chat all about Vampire Survivors, the viral sensation where you have to survive an onslaught of enemies... even though there's no vampires.
Do you wanna be a King? Do you want to be a prepubescent King with cat ears and a delicate face? Well do we have the game for you! No it's not an anime Visual Novel, its the RPG from Level-5 and Bando Namco: Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom!
Stay up to date
For any inquiries, please email us at hello@podcastworld.io