Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! We have a fun episode for you this week, Ben Hanson is joined by Sarah Podzorski, Ana Diaz, and Elise Favis from Game Informer, The Washington Post, and Fanbyte. We share our thoughts on Sonic Frontiers, break down the highlights from Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, Elise raves about A Plague Tale: Requiem, we pit the farming in Coral Island against Square-Enix’s Harvestella, and Sarah talks about playing Resident Evil 4 for the first time. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax
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00:00:00 – Intro
00:09:49 – Sonic Frontiers
00:22:58 – Nintendo Indie World Showcase
00:23:34 – A Little To The Left
00:24:58 – Goodbye World
00:25:33 – Pepper Grinder
00:26:16 – Once Upon A Jester
00:27:17 – Sports Story
00:28:24 – A Plague Tale: Requiem
00:38:05 – Harvestella
00:41:16 – Coral Island
00:43:44 – Resident Evil 4
00:49:58 – Thanking MinnMax’s biggest supporters
00:54:42 – Community questions
01:38:33 – Get A Load Of This
Elise’s GALOT – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GWL8Gt-BsQ
Sarah’s GALOT – https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2022/09/16/titanic-on-vhs-tiktok
Hanson’s GALOT – https://twitter.com/AndyPlaytonic/status/1587982891438510081?s=20&t=G90KJHPhknKk-rIQgsB3zw
Ana’s GALOT – https://www.tiktok.com/discover/chika-dancing-until-i-get-a-girlfriend?lang=en
Community GALOT – https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/agdq-2023-lineup-includes-a-no-soap-powerwash-simulator-speedrun
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Plague Tale Requim is absolutely a AAA game now, and I almost guarantee itll be on most goty nomination lists (it won't win, but this game is very similar to something like the Last of Us and Uncharted and it has incredible graphics, it should be in that same conversation going forward)
Requiem is fine considering the first game was just called Innocence. Plague Tale 2 just sounds tacky.
It's always Sarah's time to shine, she's a gem!
Wish you would employ all the OG GI crew
Oh my first game is about an elderly person! To Ash on steam!
Sonic talk is amazing
Great episode y’all!
This and the last episode were really nice seeing the same panel from beginning to end i like new people clapping in but this was still really nice ty minnmax👍
No offense to the rest of the amazing crew but Sarah is the best addition that Minnmax has ever had.
(To the point that Ben's automatically better for inviting her)
1:09:43 missed opportunity to plug the best typing game of the generation, Trivia Tower
Sarah is starting to steal this whole show. She is just too much fun to listen to.
Love the extra effort Ben puts in for the studio stuff. Hiding Sarah's surprise was a fun bit.
Ladies show….plus ben
"Do you even know what a Wawa is, girl" – Jimmy Pop
Chaotic energy this week. Having everyone in the studio is always such a better experience. And having these three was great. Finally Sarah is back!
sarah podz is a privilege
Missed joke opportunity: 33:30 – "Crisp Rat"
This now the 2nd time I've heard Sarah shat on the good name of Keith
Great episode
RE4 couldn't possibly be the best game of all time because it's not Deus Ex.
damn, i was hiding in the laundry machine waiting for you guys to yell for me to come out for the big surprise, but i couldn't hear you yelling. i'm still in here
Question for any MinnMaxers: i'm picking up GoW:R, but still in the middle of the 2018 GoW. Should i watch the recap and dig in to avoid spoilers and keep up w the zeitgeist (and deepest dive), or grind 2018 this weekend?
Yay Coral Island! Just love the explosion of farming sims we've had over the past few years again. What a time to be alive ^_^
A Plague Tale: Requiem should have been called A Rat Tale: Requiem.
1:22:03 – I thought the group of owls is a "court". A group of gamers? COHORTS!
Great too see you’d beautiful faces back in person Ladies, Ben your beard is looking on point as always, much love from Iowa 😃❤️
Sarah got a chair, so now all is right in the world.
Great to see elise again
The Elderly game you were thinking of is called Just Die Already. It's a silly sandbox game by the developers of Goat Simulator and you do wacky things like blow off the limbs of elderly people. You play as an elderly person too.
Haunted Chocolatier is the indie I'm waiting on, plus SlikSong.
Chris Pratt could be the Rat King… ala The Nutcracker?
What a wholesome group. Warms my dead heart. Great episode.
I don’t know why Sarah is so excited to move and shoot a gun at the same time. Sounds like she wasn’t very accurate shooting while standing still.
1:22:09 A lobby of gamers. it would be a called a lobby.
Gave this a second try. I'm giving up. You've Elise trying to tell the cast her experience with Requiem and Sarah would not let her speak cracking all those bleak stale jokes, ffs. I felt so much 2nd hand embarrassment from how uncomfortable Elise looked.
Thanks for reading my question! Elise's response to my examples validated me.
Kratos has got to be centuries old at this point. Is that not representation for the elderly?
@1:22:00: a gaggle of gamers?
A team of gamers.
A collection of gamers.
A Grip of gamers.
@1:26:26: "Old Man's Journey" (18), "Killer 7" (05) (old man Harman), "The Immortal" (90), "Faust" (99), "The Graveyard" (09), "Fester's Quest" (89), "MGS4" (08), "Gorogoa" (17), "Armed and Delirious" (97), "Arise: A Simple Story" (19), "Lost Odyssey" (07), "Nier Gestalt" (10), "The Witcher 3" (16), "God of War 4" (18), "Bionic Granny" (84), "
i will play sonic frontiers despite reviews it looks good to me
Glad to hear I'm not the only person who played A Plague's Tale completely in French. I don't speak a lick of it but even with subs it was way more immersive than the British accents.