Saros Review, Tomodachi Life, Vampire Crawlers

About this episode

The episode features discussions on new games including Saros and Tomodachi Life, along with community questions.

Unlock early, ad-free access to The MinnMax Show and find a benefit that's right for you - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax This week on The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, and Jeff Marchiafava rave about Housemarque's new action roguelikes for PlayStation called Saros and discuss how the game compares to Returnal. This is a spoiler-free discussion and codes were provided by PlayStation. Then we talk about the excellent Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors and share the first hands-on preview impressions for Virtue and a Sledgehammer. Then Haley MacLean and special guest Deven McClure join the show to unpack Nintendo's strangest game in years: Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream and the IGF grand prize winning release of Titanium Court. 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 submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Follow Deven's work or contact her with freelance opportunities here - www.devenmcclure.com Watch and share the video version here - https://youtu.be/FxL7WeTn92g…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Marchiafava

Guests: Haley MacLean, Deven McClure

Topics covered

• game reviews
• action roguelikes
• Nintendo games
• Vampire Crawlers
• Tomodachi Life
• community questions

Keywords

• Saros
• Tomodachi Life
• Vampire Crawlers
• game reviews
• Nintendo
• action roguelikes
• community questions

Sponsors

MinnMax, iam8bit, HelloFresh, Square

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Housemarque, PlayStation, Vampire Survivors, Titanium Court

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