Top Down Perspective 22/05/25

Nathan joins this week as Claire had a potential previous engagement but shows up as well! Nathan is reaching for the stars in Wario's Woods, looking for a good speedrun time, Claire is playing a variety of cool stuff and is particularly fond of Tactical Breach Wizards and Paul... well, let's just say Paul wishes he was loving Doom: The Dark Ages.
In news, Bungie is accused of plagiarism (again!), Xbox adds retro games, Jade Raymond leaves Haven Interactive (the company she made years ago) and Randy Pitchford is saying some stupid stuff...again!
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Top Down Perspective 15/05/25

Sean is somewhere in the world so it's up to the other two to hold down the fort. Paul has been enjoying the end-game stuff in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and has some thoughts on Doom: The Dark Ages early hours. Claire has been working through Mortal Kombat 1 despite being grossed out by how it's monetized and is working on Drawn To Life for game clearing.
In news, Skype is officially dead, EB Games is coming back (for some reason), Sony introduces a new studio called teamLFG and the PS5 is likely going to be more expensive due to tariffs. 
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Top Down Perspective 10/04/25

Sean and Jon are back! We begin getting out some of their thoughts on the Nintendo Switch 2 announcements last week and use that to talk about the news that's broken since about the Switch 2's pre-order/tariff debacle.
Paul wrapped up Avowed, checked out Castlevania ReVamped and started South of Midnight, which Sean has also been playing as of last week. Jon gets super into Mortal Kombat 11 and does some Logiart Grimoire for his picross fix.
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Top Down Perspective 03/04/25

This week Paul is joined by former co-host Nathan for a nostalgia-fueled episode. Nathan’s been spending time with Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and Burnout Paradise Remastered, while Paul checks back in with Avowed.
We also dig into a packed news segment: the resolution of the Karl Jobst vs. Billy Mitchell defamation case, the ZeniMax QA team threatening to strike, and layoffs hitting Eidos Montreal. And of course, we cover all the big announcements from the latest Nintendo Direct—especially the updates on the Nintendo Switch 2. From Switch 2 specs and release windows to what the next-gen Nintendo console launch lineup includes, we’ve discuss it all!
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Top Down Perspective 06/06/24

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 are just preparing for the onslaught with some early info on the proceedings and the possible future of The Last of Us TV show.
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Top Down Perspective 23/05/24

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 for the most part. 
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Top Down Perspective 16/05/24

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, Microsoft kills Tango Gameworks, Nintendo announces Switch successor announcement and the top sold Pokemon games are among a few of a GIANT NEWS WEEK. Come hear all about it!
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Top Down Perspective 04/01/24

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. 
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Top Down Perspective 14/12/23

Sean is away travelling to the Great White North this week. Luckily, Paul and Jon are here to talk a bunch about FORTNITE! Yeap, that's pretty much it!
Hope you like news. The Game Awards happened! We go over those announcements, GTA VI trailer finally comes out, The Day Before is a scam, Epic wins monopoly lawsuit against Google, E3 is finally fully dead and Death Stranding is coming to theaters.
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Top Down Perspective 23/11/23

Happy Thanksgiving! Stuff this extra long episode in and be thankful!
With Sean gone to turkeyland and Jon working the TRG mines, Nathan joins Paul to discuss a bit more about the finer points of Alan Wake 2, Pikmin 4 and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Not much news but a bunch of fun user questions and Paul gets Nathan's Video Game Awards predictions!
You can catch Nathan's other show at https://www.okvideo.ca/
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Top Down Perspective 05/10/23

Things are slowing down slightly before the storm as Jon checks out some older games including Phantom 2040 on the SNES, which might be one of the best games from back then! Sean has been playing Cocoon and a lot of Lies of P... including a super secret game he has early access to. Paul is almost done the Baldur's Gate 3 trek and is planning his next adventure.
In news, NoClip has released a documentary about the Burger King games, Diablo 4 comes to Steam and a bunch of companies get hit with lay-offs still, including Naughty Dog and TellTale this week.
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Top Down Perspective 20/07/23

Things are slow in the podcast coalmines with Sean gone so Jon tells us tales of...everything? Also he's been doing a bunch of reading of Power Rangers stuff this week! Paul has been playing Gravity Rush and a slew of Mario romhacks.
 
Not a lot of news, Blizzard games are slowly coming to Steam and Xbox Live/Gold are officially being sucked into the Game Pass blackhole.
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Top Down Perspective 08/06/23

It's Keigh-3 time and with Summer Games Fest-ivities starting, Sean is in the field on assignment and Jon is busy driving across the country so Nathan comes back to help Paul deliver a monstrous episode for your entertainment.
We don't go through too much news as it's still happening but Nathan has been playing Super Mario Maker 2 and comparing Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to games he likes more. He's also been trying out some Fallout 4. Paul is deep into Diablo IV and has a lot of love for it, even though he really also fell in love with a small horror game called Homebody that stole his fancy for the week.
See you next week for a LOT of news talk!
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Top Down Perspective 04/05/23

Sean has gone to greener pastures, literally, so it's up to Jon and Paul to bring you a show to remember!
Jon has been playing more Pizza Tower so, if you're not a patron enjoy some free opinions on that (but seriously we talk way more about it if you are on TDP+ ;)). Between running around making pizzas, he's also checked out This Means Warp, Afterimage, Magical Drop VI and Deathwish Enforcers.
Paul has been having a great time starting Cassette Beasts (check it out!), less of a great time in Redfall and struggling with the old Armored Core games.
No real news so we just answer a bunch of emails! Enjoy!
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Top Down Perspective 23/03/23

Sean is gone this week so we tell tales of Jon's Pokemon tournament experience this week and briefly touched Diablo 4 beta (more on that next week).
Lots of news stuff, including some Famitsu GOTY 2022 awards, Amazon Luna is out in Canada, Sonic Origins gets a big update and a new TMNT game announcement gets us excited for the future!
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Top Down Perspective 25/11/22

Happy Thanksgiving! Sean is away on assignment to eat a bunch of turkey but makes some time to play Pokemon Violet and work through Pentiment a bunch. Paul also has been playing Violet and we all have some opinions on that. Jon got Astlibra working on the Steam Deck and has been poking on that in between some Picross and Guilty Gear Strive/DNF Duel.
No real news this week so we just take a bunch of questions and do episode titles.
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Top Down Perspective 13/10/22

The crew is gone so the pinch-hitter Nathan is brought in to hit some dingers. First we answer the question of if Return to Monkey Island is any good from one of the biggest adventure game fans in the crew. Next, Splatoon fever has hit Nathan and he visits a bunch of Nintendo stuff like Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, Yoshi's Woolly World and Pikmin 3 before jumping into a terrible game called Aero Porter. Paul has started revisiting the Dead Space series.
In news, Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition is double the price, Game Pass makes a bunch of money and Google is releasing Cloud Gaming Chromebooks.
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Top Down Perspective 06/10/22

Since Sean and Jon can legally never be in the same place at the same time, we sent Sean across the world and brought Jon back from the eye of the storm to talk about his trip and some of his more interesting games he's been playing for stream and while travelling. Paul has been Boning up on Trombone Champ and throwing in some time in Grounded now that it's hit version 1.0.
Little news as important as the voice of Mario but Overwatch 2 is pissing people off and a bunch of beloved websites like Gamespot and Giant Bomb have been sold to Fandom.
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Top Down Perspective 01/09/22

Sean is gone to PAX this week so Paul and Jon hold down the fort. Jon has been playing Rolling Thunder 3 from the Genesis days in his spare time and showing off Demon Throttle (the last physical-only release in this day and age) and a cool tower defense game called ORX while Paul finishes Cult of the Lamb and plays a bunch of Fortnite.
Paul reached out to the audience this week to send him all the news they wanted and we run down a bunch of stuff, including a new Assassin's Creed is going to be shown soon, Shovel Knight Dig is out in a month and Ubisoft is trying to keep people happy, amongst many, many, many, many other topics.
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Top Down Perspective 28/07/22

Pretty tame week as Jon plays The Adventures of Star Saver on the Game Boy, Paul does Neon White clean up and Sean jumps into As Dusk Falls and The Quarry with a friend.
Mario Kart 8 adds maps, Meta Quest adds price, Annapurna adds games and GTA 6 adds women while destroying bad work conditions. Also Papers, Please is getting released on mobile devices. 
You have phones, don't you?!
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