Digital Devil Pod: Shin Megami Letsplei

The Episode That Almost Never Was: after realizing Brent's voiceover audio for an ENTIRE session was corrupted, we had to re-record and edit the whole thing in the space of a few days (in the middle of some particularly bogus fascist fracus).  After spinning the wheels for a little while, we're finally gaining some traction!  We have a final reckoning with the minotaur, try to make some sense of the demon fusion system, and tie up ...

In the back half of The Episode That Almost Wasn't, we grapple with the introduction of mini bosses into our loop as we continue to desperately try to peel back the edges of the demon fusion system.  What does recarm do?  Who was Tabasa?  Why does the currently petrified captain of the Sky City pilot said Sky City using an old-timey ship's wheel?  We look inside ourselves to find the answer.  Which in hindsight was a poor place to ...

The dungeon of Mazurka is huge, and it's brutal, and it's empty.  This week, instead of dwelling on the most frustrating aspects of an incredibly frustrating (and old) game, we're cutting all that out and leaving you with a lot of horsehockey about facebook marketplace lewd drawings, space fortresses in the Gundam universe, daytime Overwatch ranked matches, and being accused of "colorbusting" as a child in the Mississippi public sc...

Surprise, it's the book episode!  The back half of Kyuuyaku really suffers from the lack (see: a supermassive black hole) of narrative so we dive head-first into the kiddie pool that is the Digital Devil Story light novels to try to make sense of all of it, from ritual magick and Whitesnake, to cybernetic astral tentacle attacks, and god-fights in stinky tombs.  Brent will also do their best to put forth a working theory as to why ...

Our desperation to escape Mazurka reaches a fever pitch.  We continue fleshing out floors of the map, each one a more twiztid shape than the last, searching for Latos's Statue, finding only pain.  Not to be hyperbolic, but this is where the game begins to do the absolute most disrespectful things a video game has ever done to us personally.  Yet still, we persevere, finding time along the way to discuss the dark truth behind what h...

The never ending search for Latos's Statue continues across two more days of play, and honestly, we've forgotten why we needed it in the first place.  As the clearing of tiles rolls ever onward, we revisit childhood memories of christian youth group sports retreats, share peanut butter & jelly sandwich tips, and bring up Guyver again.  Jovana (@dirt.petal) also pops in for a spell to answer for her audio crimes and chat about the p...

We discover that Mazurka is, in fact, THREE separate dungeons stacked in a trench coat masquerading as one, and every tile we clear brings us one step closer to a confrontation with the *ahem* naked thief, Gaia.  Gaia does one of the worst things any video game character has ever done to us.  The sheer scope of the map situation forces us to break out the pen and paper once again, as our musical chatter devolves into questioning th...

After weeks upon weeks of tile sweeping for items, all the while enduring increasingly caustic barbs from the denizens of the dungeons (in addition to the dungeons themselves), we finally loop back around to clear out some big baddies.  It's a double header this week as we set out to take on Loki and Hecate before taking our first real steps into the fiery basement of Mazurka that serves as the foyer to the Sea of Flames.  Oh, did ...

The shift from Mazurka to The Rotting Sea of Flames is one of the truer representations of the old turn of phrase "out of the frying pan, into the fryer" we've ever run across.  The game remains much the same, only now everything is protracted needlessly by resource drain, so we've clipped out the hours of lamenting our new situation and left you with some final thoughts on the book, a piece of Brent's truly bizarre fan-theory head...

It's the penultimate episode, and after we take care of this here snake monster, we're going on the only real treasure hunt the game has to offer us.  We (mostly Brent) also deal with a brief bout of Stockholm Syndrome as we begin to feel the train pulling into the station, but that particular shine wears off quickly.  Very quickly.  Remember phone numbers being shoved haphazardly into popular songs?  Remember rentals?  We're getti...

No Nike, you know we do it.  We beat the game in this episode I mean.  We also try to make sense of an American Sniper + Punisher Skull window decal.  We also learn some crucial gameplay facts quite literally on Lucifer's doorstep.  Also, we touch on the possibility of a long running midwestern weekly radio variety show dealing permanent psychic damage to the mind of a child (that child being Brent).  Also, Justin reveals his true ...

We wanted to really peal back the layers of the Original Video Animation accompaniment to the first round of DDS media, but unfortunately, there aren't many, and what's up in there mostly stinks.  So, in lieu of re-treading the same critiques we had of the books (listen to that episode if you haven't), we try to clue you in to some stuff we think is more deserving of your precious time.

Episode proper starts around 10:35.

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