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  1. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 10/10/2025: The Gundamned

    Do Jack o'Lanterns count as undead creatures? So we've got an absolutely stacked cast this week, and we're kicking it off with nothing less than the first thing I saw listed; Dawnfolk, which has nothing at all to do with the critters-themed Dungeon and Draggler, Sunderfolk that came out earlier...
  2. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 10/03/2025: Blame Yourself, or the Stars

    Why do the Power Rangers masks all have pouty lips built into them? They don’t kiss… Putting our best foot forward this week and starting off with what’s not only arguably the biggest release of the week, but is still considered one of the best games of its whole range genre; Final Fantasy...
  3. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 09/27/2025: Heck As Well

    What better way to celebrate my Birthday Week than with a long awaited sequel to a beloved indie hit? Which makes... like... the third time that's happened this year. Which is to say this weeks, BIG DAWG release is, of course, Hades 2. Which, it turns out, is NOT being released the same day as...
  4. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 09/19/2025: Sticks and Stones Can't Break my Bones, but Words will Grievously Harm Me

    I don't know if there's enough publicly known Randy Savages to warrant needing to specify that this one is "The Macho Man" So there was a Nintendo Direct last week, and, as usual, that means there was some shadow drops, and the first of those was Storm Lancers, which appears to be a Dead Cells...
  5. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 09/12/2025: Cats Off to You

    The problem with White Lotus is that they don't ever really focus on the people having a nice time on their vacation at the resort. So let's kick off with something that got a but buried in the smorgasbord of everything released last week, and given the really generic cover art they went with...
  6. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 09/05/2025: A Bugs Strife

    Originally this thread would have been much longer, but the surprise release of an apex predator of indie-games kind of scared a lot of them off. And there's no sense beating around the bush; the top dog this week is the long, long *long* awaited sequel to everyones favorite bugs-em-up Hollow...
  7. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 08/30/2025: Master the Principles of CQC

    Boy howdy, lots of stuff this time around. Good thing weeks with such a heavy concentration of Good Stuff don't come around very often, huh? So first we're going to look at the non- Switch release this week on the grounds that it fits well with an impending segue and also the thread title...
  8. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 08/22/2025: We're finally Ret-2-Go

    Good news for all you Tuesday fans; that's what today is! So we're kicking things off with something I'm provisionally jazzed for, as the premise sounds right up my alley but the screenshots all make it look like it's kind of janky; City of Springs! It's a Sneaky tactical robot-em-up where yer...
  9. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 08/15/2025: The Nintendo We Have At Home

    I'll just say what we're all thinking; if someone actually responded to a question the way that Jeopardy poses its answers, you'd think they were an asshole So we're kicking off this week with one of those games that's a neat idea that I want to encourage but doesn't look to be anything I'd...
  10. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 08/08/2025: Be Faster or a Core-Blaster

    Perhaps I could interest you in a video? So we're going to go ahead and kick this weeks thread off with the game that is the least of a retro-throwback; Radiant: Guardians of Light! It is at least only a retro throwback in that it kind of reminds me of Young Souls, and that came out a few years...
  11. Octopus Prime

    Digital DOwn-Low for 08/01/2025: Sleepytime Bloodrage

    These videos are looking GAMEY! So we're kicking things off this week with something genuinely surprising and that I, personally, would be excited about in another context; Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy, which I believe is the first Mado Monogatori game since, like... 1991 and...
  12. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 07/25/2025: Reminded of the Violence of a Thousand Wildin' Hearts

    Wow, say what you will about the deodorant companies but they're right; this stuff smells *exactly* like sports. So we're kicking off with nothing less than the first game listed in the eShop "Coming Soon" tab; Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S+! It's a picross game starring everyones favorite CG pop...
  13. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 07/18/2025: Rise and Fall, Rage and Ape

    I believe this marks the further point on the calendar year where we have to worry about Frosty the Snowman. Let's celebrate with some video games! So let's begin with one of the oldest rivalries in the medium; the original console wars with two of the very first mascot characters were created...
    • Octopus Prime
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    • Forum: Talking about television games
  14. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 07/11/2025: Christs in the Air and the Devils in the Stars

    I feel like a giraffe is probably the animal that would least appreciate snuggling. So just about everything this week is a throwback to yesteryear in some way or another so I'mma go through this weeks releases in descending order of how much that is the case. And that means we're starting off...
  15. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 07/04/2025: Jump Men Can’t Kick

    Happy Canada Day to everyone north of Maine; make sure you salute every Maple Tree you see and give a ha’penny to your local Zamboni driver. Luckily the good people at Video Games acknowledged it’s a holiday so they gave me a reduced workload this week, but we do have some corkers, and one of...
  16. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 06/27/2025: Your Package Is Out For Delivery

    Well, the calender has flipped over to "Summer" which means it's so friggin' hot that you may well turn to ash if you so much as look out a window, so why not instead stay inside and enjoy some new games for the Video Fan in your life? And speaking of not wanting to go outside and over-relying...
  17. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 06/20/2025: Love is in the Air. And on the floor, and the walls. And in most of the electric outlets...

    Sometimes the thread titles write themselves And why keep you in suspense for what it would possibly refer to? The big name release this week is the aptly named Date Everything, a dating sim that brings bold new interpretation to the concept of being pansexual. It's a romance-em-up where...
  18. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 06/13/25: Die or Be Killed

    So… last week was pretty robust, eh? Going to skip over the top shelf launch titles, your Mario Karts, Yakuzas, Street Fighters, and your Cyberpunks and just focus on the stuff that got lost in the shuffle of the Launch. Also I do not know which of these are not playable on the Switch 1...
  19. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 06/06/25: Children of Rune

    Well interesting challenge this week; nominally these threads exist to help separate the wheat from the chaff in the eShop each week and since the Switch 2 is about 35 hours from release as of this writing that's where most of the new releases are and that is, for now, entirely Wheat. Plus I...
  20. Octopus Prime

    Digital Down-Low for 05/30/2025: CRITTER CRISIS!

    I don't think it's fair for this week to be so chock-full of stuff I want to play given what next week looks like... Kicking a hole in your drywall and throwing an occupied beehive into it this week is Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo, a game that looks at The Legend of Zelda and says "What if...
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