Ep. 358 - Soak the Hippo, Save the World, with Ash Parrish

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Ep. 358 - Soak the Hippo, Save the World, with Ash Parrish

Reporter for The Verge Ash Parrish guests hosts our panel as they correctly guess the discourse around Zelda and Dragon Age, briefly review Megalopolis, and develop a free exclusive phrase you can use! Hosted by Ash Parrish, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: Are there any games that take heavily from Jewish mythology? (11:01)

2: How do you feel about the direction Dragon Age is going? (19:16)

3: What is the Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024) of video games? (36:56)

4: Design a serious triple-A video game about Moo Deng (44:45)

5: How can Nintendo make a well-rounded all-ages video game with a female protagonist that isn’t Samus? (48:34)

6: Design a game starring either Princess Peach or Zelda (56:58)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (01:03:32)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:43):

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Xenogears/Xenosaga is the premier Judaism fanfiction I can think of. The Xeno guy seems to be embarrassed about it and thinks it doesn’t sell, which is why he’s switched to making games with fetishy Welsh catgirls.

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Thanks all for a great episode, and especially for a huge laugh at Seinfeld Scene It? as an answer for the first question!

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I’d be interested to hear what movies/shows Brendan was watching during his run of focusing on Indigenous creators. I’ve been on a similar (if less focused) run myself and am curious what stuff he checked out (and that I should check out).

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I am also a 219 girlie who went to Purdue (though my area code eventually got changed). Always love when Ash is on the show!

Personally I think Veilguard looks great. The amount of choices carrying over from Inquisition is somewhat disappointing, but as a filthy Solavellan, they’re carrying over most everything I would care about anyway (except for one big choice). I’m also avoiding the marketing, and I think I’m much more excited for it as a result

It’s going to vastly outstrip Baldur’s Gate 3 to me, but I’m in that small subset of people who didn’t enjoy that game. I’m prepared to spend the next year getting frustrated with people expecting Bioware to have made a kind of game they’ve never made because Larian took Baldur’s Gate and did something rather different with it

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I think the Xenoblade trilogy also does a great of expanding on it. Core Crystal, the Zohar, Ontos, Logos, and Pneuma. I could talk about it for hours.

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Good Ash-led episode. I listened to the first 50 minutes and will listen to the rest on my commute home.

Regarding games drawing from Jewish mythology, Xenogears is the first place my mind went to. I did suspect there might be some games more in the edutainment track, and my search did not disappoint. Via Internet Archive, check out this game from the Tanach Quest line.

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Another crazy twist on the format. What’s next, DOGS running the podcast???

I’m excited for new Dragon Age even though I have liked each Dragon Age less than the one before it. It’s been so long now that I think, even though it’s a sequel, it’s fair to consider this one a reboot. Obviously I am not expecting it to be a BG3 level game or phenomenon (even the best Dragon Age just isn’t on that level), but as a fan of western dialogue heavy RPGs we just don’t get a lot of these kinds of games. Even if the combat sucks or I don’t like the aesthetic (hoping it’ll grow on me), I’m sure I’ll have a good time just playing through a big RPG where I get to be a guy I made.

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the complete rejection of frank’s secret phrase really had me laughing harder than i typically do on a monday morning. thank you.

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authorship of Parable Of The Sower was misattributed to Ursula K. Le Guin (Octavia Butler is the author) but perhaps understandable as the host may have still been rattled by tim’s endorsement of D.W. Griffith just moments before

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Sometimes I like to read through the show notes before listening to the episode, and it kind of feels exactly like listening to the show.

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Yes! After re-listening to the episode I realized my mistake and was on my way here to correct the record. Thank you

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I was very much unaware of that. Are these games related in anyway to the Xenoblade series, because I played that most recent game and didn’t notice anything like that.

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@adashtra Yes in that they have the same director (and the same xeno). they’re sort of in the same universe but the jewish lore stuff got abandoned after the the series switched over to monolith/namco. This is the game we should’ve thought of, certainly!

@Girard here’s a partial list (and to be clear I wasn’t limiting myself to the US):

  • blood quantum (good)
  • reservation dogs
  • night raiders (okay)
  • slash/back (not great but good hustle)
  • the legend of baron to’a (not bad)
  • republic z (good, I want to watch more movies in yakut)
  • green frontier (great)
  • movie about a russian indigenous code talker which I cannot for the lifr of me remember the name of (okay)

then if you count stuff made by non-indiginous folk but with a lot of indiginous folk in:

  • cargo
  • prey

I still need to watch Jeff Barnaby’s first feature, rhymes for young ghouls - really a shame that he passed away so young, he had a bright-looking future.

there’s probably more I watched that I forgot. At a certain point it got hard to find more, even though I know there is more, and I was more interested in watching recent stuff than revisiting the few films in the 90s.

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Great episode! I loved the part at the beginning when Tim was going on a tangent from the intro question and Ash chimed in, “we have other guests.” That’s like the show in a nutshell right there.

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i wonder if the liver thing tim talks about in the beginning is gilbert’s syndrome cuz that’s something i got and it’s rare and like, harmless, but new doctors for me are always like…your bilirubin’s doing what now??

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also i bet the Rich Kid Legos were Technics, which had like gears and wheels and axles and stuff

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Frank was right about playmobile being for bourgeois children

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I have horrible user name regret. I could have been @HungryHungryHornies!

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