Them Sweet Mythos Boys return to the Final Fantasy well once more with a trip to Valisthea. Joe and Ethan dig into this Devil May Cry game cosplaying as a Final Fantasy, and dissect its narrative, characters, and overall oddness that is this game. For such a poorly paced hodgepodge of a game...we both actually kind of like it. It certainly has its ups and downs, but either way, it certainly makes for a very fun episode.

The duology comes to a close with both sweet boys trading games! This time Ethan played Tactics Ogre: Reborn  and Joe played Octopath Traveler II and here come the final thoughts on both of them. This is certainly a part 2, as we don't discuss the basics of either game, and we are no holds barred on spoilers.

Discussing some business and the reasons behind delays of podcasts! Stay tuned for some more podcast goodness down the line.

This episode we have a little JRPG show and tell! Joe decided to play Tactics Ogre: Reborn while Ethan played Octopath Traveler II. This episode is a preview of both games, with future full episodes dedicated to both games after both Sweet Boys have played it! The discussion is a bit more laid back, but we get to both gush about two very fun and recent JRPGs.

Them Sweet Boys go to Indie Town, population Ghost Foxes! Joe and Ethan try to decipher the mystery that is Tunic, a 2022 throwback to the original NES Zelda games. You play as an adorable fox cub who is tasked with exploring the ancient ruins of an island to free a spectral fox from her prison, but boy does this little fox have a tough time doing so. This one gets pretty salty!

Joe and Ethan look at an odd sequel that is loaded with nostalgia for Ethan, and has no nostalgia at all for Joe! Another game developed and produced my Gunpei Yokoi's team at Nintendo R&D 1, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is a really solid and inventive platformer with lots of player choice, and some smart evolutions from the first Super Mario Land. It is a really solid Mario title, and a great snack of a game, perfect for the Game Boy. I mean, the game that birthed Wario has to be good!

Them Sweet Boys take on the life of crime and become the rootenest tootenist shootenist pair of cowpokes this side of of the ole Mississipp'. For our 25th episode extravaganza (actually just realized it now typing this out, whoops!), we decided to do a biggun': Red Dead Redemption 2. We discuss the vast world of possibilities this game affords you, our opinions of the various members of the Van Der Linde gang, and the story of the tragic cowboy, Arthur Morgan. It's a really fun episode folks!

It's the game that changed the Resident Evil franchise from pure survival horror to action horror, and is one of the foundational games in the 3rd person shooter genre. RE4 is many peoples' favorite Resident Evil title, and rightfully so! Them Sweet Boys jump right into the backwoods of Spain to guide our dead-eyed Bingo Boy Leon Kennedy into a BOW infested village where he will try to save the president's daughter from a cult of parasite infested monster men. This is a first time playthrough for Joe, and them boys dig into what makes this game so darn special. It's a banger of an episode folks!

After a bit of a COVID and holiday hiatus, "Here We Go!" is back with one last 2022 Mario gasp before we warp pipe into what will be a very momentous 2023. Thankfully, we have a banger of a game to talk about with Super Mario Kart! We also discuss a good bit of Mario news with the new MK8 track pack, the second movie trailer, and we also discuss our gaming round up from Nintendo and Sony from 2022. Happy holidays everyone!

Those golden boys get all Groundhogs Day in Ancient Rome in this adventure mystery game. What started as a one man made popular mod for Skyrim, and turned into a standalone game by a small dedicated team, turns out to be a short but sweet snack of a game. You play as a character dropped into an Ancient Roman city that was built underground in an open cavern. The populace of the city has a problem: if any one of them commit a sin, the God of this realm will turn everyone to gold, and of course this is the one day everybody decides to get their sinning in! You get tasked with uncovering who is planning on sinning, as well as discovering the origins of the curse placed upon the city. It is a really captivating story, with charming dialogue and a stellar setting and atmosphere, and we recorded a banger of an episode. Enjoy! Important PS: We spoil every bit of the narrative in this especially narrative driven game, so listen with caution!

Them Sweet Boys are on a quest to kill chaos as they take on Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins, an incredibly lame celebration of 35 years of Final Fantasy. What a great premise! A Final Fantasy soulslike made in collaboration with Team Ninja; sign me up! But sadly, Square Enix and Team Ninja couldn't deliver, and instead made...this...We do our best to sing the few merits this game has, but overall this is a listen instead of play scenario.

It's a full on mega episode as we talk about three big topics! First, Joe and Ethan discuss the September direct in full and dissect it for Mario goodness, as well go off on tangents about Octopath Traveler II and Kingdom Hearts III. Secondly we discuss some very recent news with the first trailer for the Mario movie, where we discuss Chris Pratt's Linda Belcher like Mario voice. Finally, we get into baby's first graphic design program with Mario Paint and really dig into the fun of creating on the SNES. It's a banger of an episode; give it a listen!

Just in time for the month of spooks, Ethan and Joe actually got together in person to play this interactive narrative game. It's the last day of summer at Hackett's Quarry Summer camp, and the counselors get marooned for one more night without the kiddos. What should be a night of young lust and memories is instead a night of horrors! You get to play the horror movie director and can either guide your characters to safety, or make the perfect 80's style slasher movie. Can our survive their last night of summer camp, and guide their horny teenage counselors past beasties, ghoulies, ghosts, and some seriously pissed off country folk? Or will they lead them to inadvertent slaughter? Give it a listen, it's a pretty fun episode!PS. Sorry for the mix-up with the files. For the second episode in a row I uploaded Joe's audio only, but took me a couple of days to catch it this time. Whoops!

In this episode we have a duology of NES dropping block puzzlers, from the fondly remembered Dr. Mario to the much less remembered Yoshi!  As an added bonus, we wrap up some early 90's Mario cameos on the Gameboy, some of which are just plain weird! Here are the other five games being covered.Baseball (Gameboy)Alleyway (Gameboy)Tetris (Gameboy)F1 Racing (Gameboy)Qix (Gameboy)

*Sorry about the snafu! Here is the correct audio file*Joe and Ethan plunge into Elden Ring , the 2022 Soulsborne sensation from From Software. Two sweet tarnished boys journey to the Lands Between to purloin the great runes from Queen Marika's awful, no good family, and along the way discuss topics such as the open world formula, rank our favorite and least favorite foes, and our general opinions on the scope and difficulty of the game. Overall, it's an episode whose strength befits a crown! Also, stay tuned for a bonus addendum episode with Joe Morris's opinions on the game, because there is just so much to discuss!

Ethan and JM- X face our fears and climb our way out of planet ZDR in Metroid Dread, the most recent 2D Metroid developed by Nintendo. We first discuss the complicated development history and the turbulent Metroid fanbase which made this game's development rather unique, before moving into a break down of the game's narrative, its frenetic gameplay, and the hard as nails boss battles. We also take our jab at the big question: is this game the next big step for Metroid? Does it push the franchise forward or merely use the same old tricks? Give a listen to find out!

For being such a popular video game character, Mario as a transmedia property really died after the early 90's. In this episode we are going to look at as many of the cartoons and programs that we can find that featured the plumber, from weird game shows and variety children's programs, to the more nostalgic and memorable cartoons. The programs and episodes discussed on this program are...Saturday Supercade-Donkey Kong in New Wave ApeSuper Mario Super Show- Bad Rap (oh yeah you get to hear Lou Albano rap)King Koopa's Kool KartoonsSuper Mario Kids ClubhouseSuper Mario Challenge- Katie vs AlanThe Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3- Do the KoopaSuper Mario World- Rock TVMario Ice Capades

Vacation at Dinosaur Land is over! This episode wraps up our discussion with Super Mario World, and covers discussion from World 2 up through Special World. Make sure to listen to part 1 first!

Ethan and Joe discuss Super Mario World for the SNES,  the mainline Mario entry for the Super Nintendo. We both love this game, and had so much to say about it that we had to split this episode into two parts. In this episode we talk about our personal history with the game, the development history of the game, the aesthetics and music, as well as the general gameplay. We round things off with a discussion on the first world, Yoshi's Island. In the next episode we will talk about the rest of the worlds, as well as final thoughts/discussing which Mario property we will handle next.

Them Sweet Boys get whacko for THAC0 when they travel to the Sword Coast in this very of its time CRPG. We discuss our relationship with CRPGs, Dungeons and Dragons, and of course this very foundational title from Bioware. While this game didn't grab us like we'd hope it would, it is still an interesting game to talk about.