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It’s the Girlies! You know the drill. If you don’t, just listen and you’ll get it. It’s like an awards show but better.
Thanks for listening this year!
You can find a whole list of winners (with a couple of visual aids) here.
Timestamps:
(00:15) The Girlies!
(51:30) Spoilers for Carimara and Old Skies
(54:25) Spoilers end
(1:22:00) Spoilers for Carimara and Silent Hill f
(1:24:20) Spoilers end
(1:37:25) GOTY discussion
(1:43:30) Thematic spoilers for our pick
(1:48:30) Major story spoilers for our pick
Mentioned this week:
Neil Newbon being correct about generative AI
Jennifer English being incredible at the Golden Joysticks
Additional music this episode:
Take me out to the ball game from Trombone Champ
Baby Steps background music
I’m A Bitch, My Name’s Robert from Dispatch
I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death) from Hades 2
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It’s the annual Girl Mode Game Exchange, the episode where we force each other to play one of our favorite games of the year, under penalty of death. This year, we chose Wanderstop and Baby Steps, two games about the struggle to find self-worth that take two very different paths to get there. Only one is obsessed with making you look at donkey dicks, for instance. This year, we were both pretty surprised by our reactions to our games and we didn’t even get furious with each other once, which I think is a first for one of these episodes!
!Spoilers for all of Wanderstop and Baby Steps!
Timestamps:
(00:10) The Great Girl Mode Game Exchange, aka, what we’re doing this week
(03:00) Wanderstop
(1:06:00) Excerpt from “The Everything” by C418 on the Wanderstop OST
(1:06:30) Baby Steps
(2:19:30) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. a very fucked up situation at Critical Reflex, letting Zoe cut your hair, Pluribus)
Mentioned this week:
Nicole Carpenter’s Wanderstop review
Gio Colantonio’s Baby Steps review
Walter Chaw on Avatar (I can’t remember if our mention of this made the final cut but it’s too late to go back and check and it’s really good either way)
I worked at the creepiest publisher in indie games (CRITICAL REFLEX)
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This week Willa and Robin run through all the announcements at The Game Awards, including: Tomb Raider for the straights, DILF Leon, and Control with a man. Boooooo. Also, more Old Skies talk because it's just that good!
Timestamps:
(00:12) Zoe probably wants to stab Willa (medically)
(02:05) A lot of time spent on Game Awards reveals
(45:00) Less time on Day of the Devs and Wholesome Snack
(51:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Cheese Ball, Octopath Traveler 0, Old Skies)
Mentioned this week:
Everything announced at The Game Awards
Everything announced at Day of the Devs
Everything announced at Wholesome Snack
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For what ended up being a shorter episode this week, Willa has returned to the land of chocobos and Robin has returned to the land of evil chocobos. Plus, skateboards, mechs, catgirl card games, and famous dead men.
Timestamps:
(00:15) Shoutout to Finland
(01:45) Why are we not playing Final Fantasy 11 right now?
(08:20) Skate Story
(12:30) Outward 2: A game that hates you
(18:40) Detective Instinct colon Farewell comma My Beloved
(22:20) Mirage Miracle Quest and Queen’s Domain demos
(25:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Tom Stoppard, Phantom Brigade)
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This week we are talking gays in space (Metroid Prime 4) and gays in time (more Old Skies) and then Willa and Robin pick what games to exchange for the end of year season because the Girlies will be here before you know it!
Timestamps:
(02:00) Too much talk about Willa's Thanksgiving movie watching
(07:10) Metroid Prime 4
(31:04) HORSES not "Horses"
(38:16) More Old Skies (also briefly Birdcage and Possessors)
(49:14) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Matrix, Letters From Liselotte, Wicked and other Oz related media)
(55:00) End of year housekeeping
Mentioned this week:
Robin's Metroid Prime 4 review
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This week, we start with hypothetically cool new hardware and Metroid Prime’s hot new feature: mansplaining. Then we move onto games we’ve played, focusing on anticipated talking-to-hot-women simulator Demonschool (unless it gets delayed again in the six hours before this episode posts).
Timestamps:
(01:45) The Girl Mode News Desk: Steam Machines
(15:50) Note: Myles MacKenzie died on the way back to his home planet
(30:00) Where are the Metroid Prime-likes?
(36:20) Videoverse
(47:00) Demonschool
(1:09:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Old Skies, more Atelier Ryza)
Mentioned this week:
VGC’s Andy Robinson on Metroid Prime 4
Alexa Ray Corriea’s “nag line discourse” post
Robin on Videoverse and Demonschool
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Episode 148 - It's terrible, I could not recommend it more
This one's got everything you love: Dunkalatte talk, Willa's neighbors doing construction in the middle of a recording, Robin playing a game where you are a little mouse, but the main event is – of course – Willa going on an extended rant about a game she hates that most people love.
Timestamps:
(00:14) Robin joins the Dunkalatte cult
(06:03) Blake Manor update and your reminder Lorelei and the Laser Eyes rocks
(09:53) Winter Burrow
(15:32 ) 20+ minutes of Willa ranting about Dispatch
(23:12) Dispatch spoilers start
(24:23) Dispatch spoilers end
(38:18) Ambrosia Sky
(48:55) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Blue Moon, stealing umbrellas, A Pizza Delivery, Verho, Atelier Ryza )
Mentioned this week:
Alyssa Mercante on The Game A wards Future Class
Every 10/10 Game Informer has given
Willa's Dispatch thread on Bluesky
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It’s the week after Halloween and we’re finally talking about horror games. After an extended bullshit session to start, we work our way around to mousegirl soulslikes, talking to ghosts with your crush, trick or treating, finding yourself on Bajor, and being the nosiest bitches at the seance.
Timestamps:
(00:15) A bunch of nonsense
(04:10) Anti-recommendation for Hinako Note
(07:30) Gamer news: Simogo
(09:30) Mouseward: A game for Robin
(12:05) Fear the Spotlight
(18:10) The Seance of Blake Manor
(48:45) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival, The O.C.)
Mentioned this week:
Robin on The Seance of Blake Manor
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This week it’s a lot of slop talk. Remakes are slop. Cozy games are slop. Law & Order Executive Producer Dick Wolf is slop. Everything is slop. We also check in on Hades 2 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.
Timestamps:
(00:25) It’s all downhill from here
(02:27) More Hades 2
(06:35) Halo on PlayStation and why remakes suck
(18:52) Dick Wolf presents AI cop slop
(21:20) Cozy games discourse
(32:23) Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
(46:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Dinner parties, the bad Earthsea TV show, weird shit in your neighborhood, the library, Six Seasons cookbook)
Mentioned this week:
Moises Taveras on game remakes
Jason Schreier on Xbox Layoffs
A wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower
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Jesus, it’s Next Fest again? Guess it’s time to talk about some demos.
Timestamps:
(00:20) Disrespecting Baja Blast
(2:20) Next Fest
(3:40) Opus Prism Peak
(8:15) Skate Story
(12:00) Sleep Awake
(16:15) Reanimal
(22:00) Constance
(25:00) Winter Burrow
(28:20) Ambrosia Sky
(32:40) Verho: Curse of Faces
(35:20) The Legend of Khiimori
(40:45) Mosaic of the Strange
(42:50) Dungeon Bodega Simulator
(46:30) Moonsigil Atlas
(49:20) Birdcage
(53:45) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder on the Orient Express, and Neuromancer)
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Ashley Bardhan (again) on Fatal Frame 2
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Episode 144 - The Soon To Be Mrs. Robin (Your Name Here)
Bad news, there is barely any beverage talk in this one. Good news, Robin is open to her hand in marriage being bought. Oh, we also spend a lot of time talking about the importance in having conviction in critical thinking and why Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is great
Timestamps:
(01:06) Learning about our audience
(3:36) Critic corner
(22:00) Robin’s spooky games (Vampire’s Best Friend, Sender)
(28:38) Play Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
(35:50) Carimara
(43:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. A Star Brighter Than The Sun, Fabula Ultima)
Mentioned this week:
Pauline Kael’s Raiders of the Lost Ark review
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This week, we’re still talking a bit about Hades II, sandwiched between slime farms, psychic babies, Tetris-likes, and Willa’s beverage-based spinoff podcast.
Timestamps:
(00:40) More coffee talk
(5:40) Slime Rancher 2
(09:35) Hades 2 (mid-to-endgame spoilers start at 15:20)
(18:30) Goodnight Universe
(26:40) Falling Block Jam
(31:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Bed and Breakfast for Spirits, Baquiné, Dreams in Nightmares)
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This week Willa and Robin are talking about suffering… but for fun! Consume Me and Baby Steps take up most of the episode but there is still time for brief thoughts on Blippo, Hades 2, and Willa’s coffee tips.
Time stamps:
(01:15) Willa’s Dunkalatte tips
(04:55) Consume Me [Trigger Warning: discussion of eating disorders]
(27:20) Baby Steps
(44:27) Blippo+
(49:26) Willa’s early Hades II thoughts
(55:08) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. A Fragrant Flower Blooms In Dignity, Witch Hat Atelier)
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This week we’re very tired and spend a long time talking about milk. I don’t know man. Then, Willa is apparently in the good part of Silksong and Robin talks about what she doesn’t like about Hades 2, a game that’s mostly good.
Time stamps:
(00:20) Coffee milk, Willa’s divorce, etc.
(05:30) So Willa’s been playing some more Silksong [Light Act 2 boss spoilers from 8:00-9:30]
(11:00) We should play Three Houses again
(12:30) A few more thoughts on Silksong
(17:40) This time Hades stars a girl
(37:45) Penguins
(39:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. FlyKnight, listening to the radio)
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Yes, we talk about Hollow Knight: Silksong in this episode, but first Robin and Willa have to salivate over the reveal that we are getting a new Fire Emblem game next year.
Time stamps:
(00:20) Willa’s a tradwife
(02:54) Non-Fire Emblem Direct news
(14:00) Us being crazy about new Fire Emblem
(25:28) Shaw! (the Silksong segment)
(53:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Taking My Dark Knight Girlfriend To The Corner Store, Secret Mall Apartment, Katabasis)
Mentioned this week:
Noah Caldwell-Gervais on Souls inheritors
Nicole Carpenter’s review of The Last of Us Part 1 at Polygon
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Robin and Willa played some games this week, just not the same ones. First up is the detailed world of Artis Impact, followed by the sleek and simple mechanics of Öoo. They both rock!
Timestamps:
(01:35) Worst Girl Mode episodes, ranked
(03:47) Artis Impact
(25:00) Öoo
(37:34) A short Peak update (it is still cool)
(38:18) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Alien: Earth, Berlin by Bea Setton)
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Why We Can't Stop Mapping Elden Ring by Renata Price
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This week, we watched Nintendo’s little showcase, which was fine. Then we both played Heartworm, a game that we like a lot, despite all the things we don’t like about it. Finally, Robin talks about some old lady shit and a new podcast, and Willa reads a good book.
Timestamps:
(01:06) A little Nintendo Direct
(03:25) Too cool for Americans
(04:45) Regarding mouth sounds
(06:05) The rest of Nintendo Indie World
(14:25) Heartworm
(37:50) Titan Quest II
(40:09) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Pure Colour, In Sequence, Queer Games Bundle 2025)
Mentioned this week:
Heartworm Is A Modern Take On Fatal Frame With Perfect Retro Aesthetics
Heartworm Grapples With the Trap of Nostalgia
Titan Quest II Takes All The Right Lessons From Its Classic Predecessor
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We’ve got a grab bag of things this week (that includes mini grab bags hidden within). Robin and Willa discuss the latest Nintendo Direct, including everyone’s love of Philabieldia, and then go over previews for Battlefield (boo) and Silent Hill f (boo, but in a scary way not a bad way) before checking up on what games they’ve been playing.
Timestamps:
(02:30) Nintendo Direct gives us the good slop
(16:20) Preview corner with Battlefield 6 and Silent Hill f
(21:04) The Great Villainess… Again!
(27:48) The Robin game corner (Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking and Time Flies)
(40:09) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Brendon Bigley's Metroid Fusion video, Stop Fucking Playing The Wordle, Hana's Light)
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Giovanni Colantonio on Battlefield 6
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Everything that was bad last week is even worse this week. Itch has followed Steam in delisting a ton of games for either including offensive sexual content or just gay people. Who can even tell the difference? We follow that exasperating conversation with what we’ve been playing this week, mostly consisting of games about a whole bunch of toxic lesbians.
Timestamps:
(01:00) Everything got worse
(18:35) Toxic Yuri VN Jam
(29:10) The Great Villainess
(33:15) Metal Garden
(36:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Young Justice, The Raven Tower)
Mentioned this week:
Two articles from Ana Valens on game censorship
Fans need to understand Link and Zelda aren’t a couple
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
Developers Are Protesting As Adult Game Bans Come To Indie Storefront Itch.io
Steam Banning Some Adult Games Is A Big Deal Even If You Don’t Play Them
Stop Payment Processors from censorship!
Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers
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