The New Contrapoints Video Is Just *mwah* Chefs Kiss. And To Think Twilight My Beloved Started It

This week on the pod!

We are back to discussing things dear to our heart, like the newly released Lies of P ( which is suprisingly good!), How DLC and MMO's could fall to the wayside with sunsetting of online services, and the amazing How i Met your Father and its abundant girlfailure energy.

Simply having a wonnderful christmas time

Its that time of year again.

Chrimbus, Chrysler, Crabapple.

Whatever you might call Cramorant, its here and we will talk about it!

How much should you reasonably spend on a gift?

Whats is so darm appealing about an unwrapped present?

How much does christmas feel religious from person to person?

Why pastoral visits are a scam?

On a personal note, this year is kind of funny actually. Usually my family is running at 150% capacity trying to prepare everything for the christmas dinner - but my brother is the one organizing the Christmas party for his fiances side of the family, so i get to enjoy the wonderful decorations made by my mom totally unbothered.

Maybe this is what Christmas is all about? Cute vibes and relaxation? I might be onto something here.

As always, link to the ep on youtube with visuals by Fredrik!

(to the rythm of boooty rockin' everywhere) Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer Summer summer summer games rockin' everywere

From Cozy Games Direct and Future of Play, to X-box Showcase and PC Gaming Show, everyone from big and small has indeed been informed about summer, and that there are games to be had durning it STAT.

And whew there were alot of announcements, just look at the website.

In our usual fashion it would too long to list every single game that was mentioned, so instead what of the games that looked really hecking cool?

Fredriks choice: SCHiM (by Ewoud van der Werf and Nils Slijkerman)

You play as a silly creature, hopping and puzzling thorugh shadows in a city. Human shadows, car shadows lamps shadows, anything is permitted. And it looks great to boot! Its coming out this year july for all Major consoles + Steam.

Karols choice Battle Suit Aces (by Trinket Studios)

Cooked up by the same developers as Battle Chef Academy (great game give it a go), this sci-fi card battler has style, worldbuilding and even features relationships with your crew! Not the genre im usually into but i believe in these devs. Release is TBD as of yet.

And our shared pick would be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (by Sandfall Interactive)

Ever since the Paintress arrived, each year she paints a new number: 35..34...33. As she counts down people of that age vanish never to be seen again. Its up to our epxedition (the 33) to give a shot at stopping the paintress in their final year of life. RPG with QTE's in a wonderfully parisian inspired world. Also what a cool premise! To be released sometime in 2025.

We actually picked more games, but for that you would have been a long list.

You have to check rest of the episode for that ;) ta-ta for now!

Rinako i would do anything for you my oshi

(this is such a fun gag)

In a schocking twist, we are back for more.

Why yes it is a smash and pass episode, but with a twist!

Given the relationship building nature of the game, Fredrik decided to throw in a challenge where we try to pair off characters and give our reasons behind them. Its especially fun given how we clash on some of each others pairs.

I've been having these weird thoughts lately...

Its time to discuss the potential future of Kingdom Hearts! Or well.... bluesky our own wishes and make up interpretations of the teasers we had so far.

With the reveal of fictional worlds is any of this for real? Or not? What about Verum Rex? Whill KH become FF15? What is the Ancient Keyblade legacy anyway? And whats in the box Scott Cawthon Nomura???

And also! This episode that made me redownload KH Unchained X/Dark Road.

KH X: good! Love having access to all accesories with none of the grind. Super easy to go through cutscenes, but you might fall out of order like in Wreck in Ralph world (since some of the scenes take place in different worlds).

Dark Road: Interesting start, but the grind is unbeliveably terrible. I dont want to keep cheking my phone if i got knocked out or not. I guess i am not the audience for idle games so its cutscenes on youtube for me (ʘᴥʘ).

Kingdom Hearts 3: 5 Years, 7 Months & 19 Days

A final chapter prologue and part 1 of 3 of our Kingdom Hearts 3 mini series!

Today we dive into the agonizing wait between the announcement and the eventual release of KH3.

Fredrik - our resident expert in field- has catalouged all the announcements and promos in a chronological order, including the likes of:

Developer interviews with Nomura over the years

Information from various E3 and events before release.

Timeline of remasters and new spin off titles like DDD and KHuX

Release of new themes / banging tunes

and more!

Plus we do like the series, like a lot, so we also talk about what excites us about the franchise. Give it a listen!

Boo!! Ghost season is upon us, and so is the apt spooky seasonal episode!

The gang has split and moved on from their mystery hunting days, but when a new opportunity presents itself the scooby gang is trust back into action - but this time danger may be in fact be more real than not. Also look at this Daphne she is so cool!!

Imo a pretty good movie perfect for a seasonal watch. The setting is wonderful and even with nostalgia glasses off it holds up!

On another note, im usually only linking our Spotify, but we do host it on youtube with slides!