Spencer and Cameron are jumping into the latest Resident Evil game, with Requiem, the 9th in the main series and really the first game since six (dis-including the remakes) that feels like a proper Resident Evil story. 7 and 8 were fun games in their spin off sort of way but just never felt like proper RE titles. More like they should have been their own games, like other Capcom titles that took the Resident Evil format and ran with it. Onimusha, Dino Crisis, and Devil May Cry to name a few. But whatever, here we are at 9 and boy what an experience it is.

There's a parallel story line going on where you play as Grace Ashcroft who is the daughter of Alyssa Ashcroft (from Outbreak on PS2 for those that remember) and Leon Kennedy. A now grizzled hero from previous RE games including 2, 4, 6, and Gaiden. The cool thing is that each character has a different play style. Grace is more in the traditional survival gameplay style of limited inventory, less weapons, puzzle solving, and hiding from the big boss stalker enemies. While Leon on the other hand has seen it all and is prepared for whatever comes next, so he's locked and loaded, and ready to lay the smackdown on anything that gets in his way. Which ends up making pretty much the Resident Evil Greatest hits of gameplay from the past 30 years.

This story has the feeling of being like Leon's next chapter after RE2. Similar to how Claire Redfield had this with Code Veronica. Leon is teamed up with Sherry Birkin on the radio (who knows what happened to Hunnigan) and is on the search for the T-Virus cure that they are both infected with. And somehow, Grace is the key to all this as left in the final messages of Oswell E. Spencer.

Fantastic job they did on the baddies and the zombies are probably the most well-done versions in any game out there. Goes to show there is always a way to add some new dimension to an old formula. With new game plus extras and hopefully some DLC coming soon to answer some more questions like, who really is Zeno? What does Chris Redfield and BSAA have going on? And did Hunk make it out alive? All this and more will be pondered on.

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Spencer and Cameron are going with a double feature podcast episode. The FMV styled survival horror games from Kenji Eno and his company Warp. Revolutionary and mind blowing in the graphics for the time but might be archaic for the modern-day gamer. Nevertheless, these two games are really a major part of retro horror gaming history that any hardcore gamer should take a look at least once.

First with D and originally on Panasonic 3DO back in 1995. All about a girl named Laura who goes to find her father after he went crazy on a mass killing spree at a hospital. But when she gets there, she is warped away to some castle like environment and there the mystery begins. Myst is the easiest comparison and explanation of how these games play out. The prerendered environments and the click around and find out puzzles. D predates Resident Evil 1 by just a moment, and you can see a lot of the proto scares to come.

Next, we dive into the somewhat sequel, Enemy Zero on Sega Saturn in 1996 Japan and 97 USA. (Really just a sequel by a blonde heroine of the same name as the main character) This game's story is pretty much a Japanese remake of Ridley Scott's Alien, with a group of space travelers waking up mid trip and realizing there is an xenomorph on board creating havoc. But in E0, there's a whole bunch of aliens and to top off the madness, they are invisible... And the only way to figure out where they are is by a pulsing sonar sound system. Clever yes. Unique, definitely. A big pain in the ass. Oh, you better believe it.

Enemy Zero is one of those games that would be like torture to complete this on original hardware. A lot of guess work with tons of trial and error but then you add in instant kills and load screens. The difficulty goes from challenging and scary to tedious and a slog. But with an emulation, save states, and a guide to see the maps and keep you on track, it is actually kind of an exotic gaming experience unlike much else. As long as your Sega Saturn emulation isn't giving you trouble. Ha ha.

But all in all, these games were worth the experience. Back in the day, D was almost a perfect scoring game in magazines like Gamepro. Now it's something slow and guessing but still a great perspective into the past. Next, with a little longer wait for the release in the US, Enemy Zero came out with mixed reviews. Some appreciation and others, like Gamepro, giving it a 1 out of 5. Boy, the times had changed and it doesn't help that two other perfectly scored horror games came out around the same time. Little titles like Quake 2 and Resident Evil 2. But in the modern age, with the power of emulation, we think it's possible to enjoy Enemy Zero right.

Now we are looking really forward to D2 on the Sega Dreamcast. The third game in this series. And the one that has always had my eye ever since it came out yet sadly, just never got around to buying and playing it.

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Where were you in 62?

Well, that is where Spencer and Dave are traveling back to and indulging in the tail end of the 50s era party, before the radical era of the 60s got dark and real with the Vietnam war and all the other changes happening then. Great Americano rock n' roll and classic hot rods to boot with George Lucas' American Graffiti from 1973.

With both of us growing up with Modesto California as our closet major city (The place this film takes place/ George Lucas' hometown) this movie has always had a major impact to the area. Even if the 50s popularity has slowly faded out in the last 15 years or so.

This movie takes place in one night, somewhere in summer, right before the new semester and college starts up and 4 young lads need to find out who they are, where they will go, or if Modesto will suck them back in like a vortex and eat them alive. But in the meantime, each one will go out on their own adventure in the night. Whether that be cruising the streets of Modesto, picking up chick, getting involved in a gang, or trying to tell your girlfriend you want to expand your horizons before going to the hop. All being brought together by Wolfman Jack on the Radio.

This movie is literally a time capsule, historic picture (similar to how Dazed and Confused represents the 70s of high school), that I think may even transcend Star Wars in the way future. Because this film just shows exactly what being in the 50s to 62 would be like and with that last bit of the ending, how intense the rest of the decade will become.

Beyond this being George Lucas' 2nd movie after THX, this film stars all sorts of early days young talents like Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Candy Clark, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams, and the big one, Harrison Ford. With Francis Ford Coppola heading the producing realm because Universal just didn't believe this film would amount to much. Funny huh, at only 777,000 this movie has well grossed over $140 million bucks and that's just box office. This doesn't include merchandising, video, television, and so on. So, this has become one of the most profitable if not the number one money making film in existence. Always bet your money on George.

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