My Favourite Game - Pikmin 3, by Alanna Linayre

Pikmin 3, by Alanna Linayre

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02/02/22 • 83 min

My Favourite Game

When you think of Pikmin 3, you think of being, for the most part anyway, a relaxing adventure game where you try to save the planet from a famine? Maybe it’s the cutesy nature of it that makes seem appealing and relaxing, right?

“Oh I don’t play these games to relax,” says Toadhouse Games CEO Alanna Linayre, as she talks of the 2013 Wii U game (re-released in 2020 for Nintendo Switch as Pikmin 3 Deluxe) as her favourite game.

Tonight, we delve into Pikmin 3, the series, why despite its cutesy and somewhat relaxing charm on paper is actually stressful and potentially equally as stressful as Dark Souls and a lot, lot more.

Oh, and if you’re wondering what the context is for the end bit with the ice in the tea, our fireside chat from last May will give you all the context for it.

You can find it below and on all good podcast services.

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Twitter: @JohnnyCullen|@Tybawai

Tonight, we delve into Pikmin 3, the series, why despite its cutesy and somewhat relaxing charm on paper is actually stressful and potentially equally as stressful as Dark Souls and a lot, lot more.

Oh, and if you’re wondering what the context is for the end bit with the ice in the tea, our fireside chat from last May will give you all the context for it.

You can find it below and on all good podcast services.

Links: Play Diaries|Twitter|Facebook|Patreon
Twitter: @JohnnyCullen|@Tybawai

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Season 6 Premiere - Mass Effect 3, by Aoife O'Friel (Part Two)

Season 6 of My Favourite Game rolls on with the second and final part of our season premiere. Last week, Ubisoft Massive narrative designer and writer Aoife O'Friel got into Mass Effect, the character and world-building within Mass Effect 3 and more.

Tonight, part two delves into the incredibly contentious ending of Mass Effect 3 as it approaches the tenth anniversary of the game's release and the original reaction to the ending as well as how making them is very hard plus reflecting on the brilliant Citadel - released after the ending brouhaha and the release of the Extended Cut.

Plus, we delve into last year's release of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and what we hope to expect with the next game in the series.

And I somehow end up mixing up Hitman: Silent Assassin with Hitman: Blood Money.

And keep listening to the end to get a taste of what's to come this coming season!

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Twitter: @aoifeofriel | @JohnnyCullen

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Ridge Racer Type-4, by Michael O'Kane

For a debuting series for My Favourite Game, this is an incredible entry to begin with.

Ridge Racer Type-4 is for my money one of the best racing games ever, let alone the best game in the Ridge Racer series. So who better to talk of it as his favourite game than Michael O'Kane, game director at Level 91 Entertainment on 2020 racing game Inertial Drift.

Here, we talk of the sophistication and style of Ridge Racer Type-4 as a whole, racing in games as a whole and Ratchet and Clank (that is coming as an episode in a few weeks. And without naming names, you'll get a pretty big hint on who's fronting it in this episode too - spoilers!).

Also, yes, the mix is not a bit great, I know. I'm going to work on a better mix to upload within the next week or so (which is why no YT version for now), but I'm also in the middle of our Critical Analysis of Horizon Forbidden West and a few other trinkets so it's going to be a little hard to do that this week.

But the hope is it'll be out sometime before next week's episode on both YT, podcast platforms and Play Diaries.

Anyway, listen to O'Kane on Ridge Racer Type-4 below as well as on all good podcast services.

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Twitter: @JohnnyCullen|@FlaxenFlash