Top Down Perspective
The video game ramblings of Jon Wheeler, Sean Booker, and Paul Fleck.
Episodes
This week, the guys are biding their time. Paul checks out an early look at 33 Immortals, the previously known "Bloodborne Kart" and continues Nine Sols while Sean is pushing people around in Humanity and loads up Octopath Traveller II with no real intentions on ever finishing it. Maybe most importantly, he's begun Stellar Blade again and is getting good at parrying.
Not much in news this week as Summer Game Fest begins soon and we...
The boys have wrapped up Hellblade 2 this week and are also discussing Little Kitty Big City. Paul has also been playing Nine Sols and XDefiant.
We start news off with a rundown of Sony's State of Play, then we chat about Redfall's final update, and Call of Duty coming to Game Pass.
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Sean is back from his Magical European Extravaganza™ and has played basically all the games you want to hear about... from Animal Well to Hades II with some Lorelai and the Laser Eyes and even some Senua's Saga: Hellblade II. Actually, Paul also has been playing Hellblade II now that he finished Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and ran through Crow Country.
Not much news, so we get Sean's thoughts on the big stuff from last week quickly f...
We're back after a week off and it might have been the most news filled week outside of an E3! Before we spend an hour talking news, Paul updates us on his Stellar Blade thoughts and progress back in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. He also played a game his friends made (link will be below). Jon has been playing all the games, starting with Animal Well, moving to Crow Country and finally Little Kitty, Big City.
The Helldivers 2 debacle,...
This week Paul is trying out The Rogue Prince of Persia before it's Early Access launch, he's also playing Steller Blade. Sean continues with Sand Land and starts SteamWorld Heist in anticipation of the upcoming sequel.
In news we talk about the recent Xbox livestream, more Switch 2 rumors, and TakeTwo closing down some of its studios.
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Sean finishes FF7 Rebirth this week and also discusses Sand Land, Tales of Kenzera ZAU, and Another Crab's Treasure. Jon finally gets into Helldivers 2 and Paul talks to us about porny metroidvanias for a bit.
In news we talk about Nintendo removing 20 years of content from Garry's Mod, Embracer is splitting its coming up, and El Paso Elsewhere is getting a movie.
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This week Sean discusses starting into Evil West and Henry Halibut. Paul needs FF7 Rebirth to end. Jon gets a major Sonic lesson and gives us a board game update.
In news, Shadow the Hedgehog gets a voice actor, Take Two lays off hundreds of people, and Nintendo held an Indie livestream.
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Everyone is back! Jon is talking about Double Dragon Gaiden and Pepper Grinder. Paul gives us an update on FF7 Rebirth. Sean plays through Open Roads and starts into Botany Manor.
We start news off with Apple allowing emulators on iOS, run through the Triple I livestream, and discuss what's up with Dead Space.
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Paul is back and updating us on his FF7 Rebirth. Sean has been playing Princess Peach Showtime.
During news we talk about PlayStation's new interim CEO, the Triple I Initiative, and another Prince of Persia game is coming this year.
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The Riffmaster guitar has shown up and Sean unboxes and shows it off at the top of the show. He's also playing Rise of the Ronin, Llamasoft The Jeff Minter Story, and Once Upon a Jester. Jon is working his way through Another Code Recollection.
News starts off with a report that Spyro 4 is in development, then we discuss Gear Box being sold out from under the Embracer Group, and some leaked Xbox images appear.
Sean returns from GDC this week to tell us about all the fun events and game demos he got to play. We also discuss one of tomorrow's many releases, Dragon's Dogma 2.
News is kicked off with a discussion about the leaked PS5 Pro specs, followed by Sony halting PSVR2 production, Larian moving on from Baldur's Gate, and Kotaku getting into more turmoil.
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We get our weekly check in on Rebirth from Sean and Paul. Sean's also been making his way through Dead Island 2 recently.
News is packed this week as we discuss Embracer selling off some studios, the largest union forming inside Activision, and another Mario movie is coming.
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The boys are deep into FF7 Rebirth this week and we spend pretty much half this episode discussing it.
In news, we talk about mechs coming to Helldivers 2, the recent Xbox Partner Preview livestream, and Balatro being taken down from digital stores.
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Jon starts us off this week with talk about Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Sean tells us about Balatro and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Paul stops his time with Final Fantasy XVI and plays through FFVII Intermission.
It's a depressing week in news as we chat about layoffs from PlayStation, EA, Supermassive, Don't Nod, and more, luckily Toys for Bob has a breath of fresh air for us.
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It's Final Fantasy week (almost) and that means Paul is back into playing XVI and Sean has gotten deep into the upcoming FF7 Rebirth. They also discuss Deep Rock Galactic Survivors, Pacific Drive, and Skull and Bones.
In news we talk about the four Xbox titles going multiplatform, PSVR2 possibly beginning to work on PC, and the recent Nintendo Direct.
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Bagel is causing a lot of headaches this week for Jon but he still finds time to play some Addams Family Values. Paul checks out Banishers: Ghost of New Eden and Helldivers 2. Sean finally finishes Hi-Fi Rush and starts into Ultros.
We begin news with a rundown of Xbox's Business Update, then we discuss a lack of first-party PS5 games coming, and FF7 Rebirth is getting a graphics improvement.
Jon returns to tell us about his time at MAGfest. Paul continues to play a ton of Palworld. Sean goes through the God of War Ragnarok Valhalla DLC and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's demo.
We start news off by discussing Xbox's rumors of going multiplatform, Evo 2024's lineup gets revealed, and Skull and Bones is a AAAA game.
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Sean returns from Europe with not the best of stories to tell. He's been playing Prince of Persia The Lost Crown and Turnip Boy Robs a Bank. Paul is deep into Palworld.
In news we discuss the recent Sony State of Play livestream, PDP officially revealing their Rock Bank 4/Fortnite Festival guitar controller, and Alan Wake 2 dials down the jump scares.
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Another year of gaming is in the books so we gathered (Nathan) once again to discuss our favorite and least favorite games that came out in 2023. We have new categories to go through, predictions for 2024, community survey results, and a lot of laughs to be had!
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Happy New Year! We start it off with a bang and spend a bunch of time answering YOUR BURNING HOT QUESTIONS.
Next week is the Game of the Year 2023 show so just a shorter one as we still get ready for that this week.
On that note: JANUARY 8 IS THE CUT-OFF FOR COMMUNITY GOTY. DO IT! TDP GOTY Survey: https://forms.gle/oCb8PVZDDEyP254B6
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