146: Virtue’s Last Reward

06/15/22 • 102 min

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Left Behind Game Club: A Video Game Podcast

We get confused and surprised at the very same time in Virtue’s Last Reward.

Developer: Spike Chunsoft | Publisher: Spike Chunsoft/Aksys Games | Initial Release: February 16, 2012

Jacob and special guest CtrlAltNoob write so many notes, gasp audibly and hop through time!

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt)

Special Guest: CtrlAltNoob (@CtrlAltNoob)

Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Start
1:10 Who is CtrlAltNoob?
2:50 Fast Pitch
4:30 Time Capsule
9:15 Press Reviews
11:10 High-Level Review
13:40 Describing Virtue’s Last Reward
18:00 Setting Up VLR
23:40 Spoiler Warning
25:30 Main Characters
34:35 Branching Narrative
37:30 Radical-6
43:40 Bombs
44:30 Morphogenetic Field
49:40 Dio
55:40 Timeline
57:20 Pods
59:55 Tenmyouji & Quark
1:01:40 The Old Woman
1:02:20 Sigma
1:06:40 Jumping (The Chart We Referenced)
1:10:30 Where Are We?
1:14:15 Luna & K
1:16:45 Gaming’s Greatest Story?
1:22:50 Setting Up Zero Time Dilemma
1:28:55 Secret Ending
1:32:50 Wrap-up
1:36:20 All About CtrlAltNoob (Noob mentioned Exit/Corners & Jacob mentioned Afterworld)
1:40:00 Conclusion

RESOURCES

Episode 121: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999)

DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast focusing on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!

We get confused and surprised at the very same time in Virtue’s Last Reward.

Developer: Spike Chunsoft | Publisher: Spike Chunsoft/Aksys Games | Initial Release: February 16, 2012

Jacob and special guest CtrlAltNoob write so many notes, gasp audibly and hop through time!

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt)

Special Guest: CtrlAltNoob (@CtrlAltNoob)

Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Start
1:10 Who is CtrlAltNoob?
2:50 Fast Pitch
4:30 Time Capsule
9:15 Press Reviews
11:10 High-Level Review
13:40 Describing Virtue’s Last Reward
18:00 Setting Up VLR
23:40 Spoiler Warning
25:30 Main Characters
34:35 Branching Narrative
37:30 Radical-6
43:40 Bombs
44:30 Morphogenetic Field
49:40 Dio
55:40 Timeline
57:20 Pods
59:55 Tenmyouji & Quark
1:01:40 The Old Woman
1:02:20 Sigma
1:06:40 Jumping (The Chart We Referenced)
1:10:30 Where Are We?
1:14:15 Luna & K
1:16:45 Gaming’s Greatest Story?
1:22:50 Setting Up Zero Time Dilemma
1:28:55 Secret Ending
1:32:50 Wrap-up
1:36:20 All About CtrlAltNoob (Noob mentioned Exit/Corners & Jacob mentioned Afterworld)
1:40:00 Conclusion

RESOURCES

Episode 121: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999)

DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast focusing on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!

Previous Episode

145: Life is Strange [Episode 5 – Polarized]

We look at this photograph in Life is Strange, Episode 5.

Developer: Dontnod Entertainment | Publisher: Square Enix | Initial Release: October 20, 2015

Jacob, Mike and Flora abandon reality, explore a very scary maze and make a very difficult choice.

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Mike Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Flora Merigold (@LudonarrativeFM)

Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Start
1:20 Episode 4 Recap
2:25 More like Creepy McCreeperson
4:35 How do we get out?
5:55 Changing history
8:40 A trip to SF
12:00 Back in the Dark Room
15:30 Telling David the truth
20:05 Weird calls and texts
21:40 Arcadia Bay in ruins
23:05 Technical notes
24:45 Back to the diner and Warren
30:00 Unloading on Chloe
32:20 Question from MatterofJoseph on other games in the series
35:10 Losing touch with reality
40:25 The stealth section
45:20 The final sequence
48:40 Final choice
55:30 How our sacrifices play out
59:00 Question from Setobox about the ending
1:03:30 Question from JayDangerRoss about sequels
1:08:00 Final thoughts on the series
1:17:00 Wrap-up

RESOURCES:

‘Life is Strange’: A Ludonarrative Lighthouse in the Darkness by Flora Merigold

DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast focusing on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!

Next Episode

147: Into the Breach

We get tactical in Into The Breach.

Developer: Subset Games | Publisher: Subset Games | Initial Release: February 27, 2018

Jacob, Mike and special guest Travis Colenutt travel through time tactically, fight giant bugs and throw boulders everywhere.

Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt) and Mike Ruffolo (@ruffolom)

Special Guest: Travis Colenutt (@TravisColenutt)

Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Instagram: @LeftBehindGameClub

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Start
1:50 Fast Pitch
2:40 Time Capsule
8:00 Into the Breach: A Game for Dads
11:45 FTL
15:00 Reviews from the Press
16:00 Value for Money
17:50 Setting Up The Basics
23:20 Making Choices
26:00 Mech Teams
39:55 The Pilots
45:10 Very Good Runs
47:30 Music
50:50 Into the Breach Crossovers?
54:10 Wrap-up

RESOURCES:

Chris Avellone sheds light on Into The Breach’s time-travel mysteries by Alec Meer | Rock Paper Shotgun

DISCORD: The Left Behind Game Club is a monthly game club podcast focusing on positivity & community. To talk to members of the community, join our Discord server!