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New year, same Girl Mode nonsense. To ring in 2023, we talk about the games (big and small) that we can't wait to play in the coming year as well as some more nebulous "gamer resolutions" that Willa and Robin will surely regret committing to come December 2023.
Timestamps:
(00:07) Intro
(00:57) Girl Mode's most anticipated games of 2023
(30:15) New Year's gamer resolutions
(41:00) What else have Robin and Willa been up to?
Things referenced:
Robin's interview with the creative director of Demonschool
Music: Order by ComaStudio
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It's Final Fantasy's 35th anniversary this month! For the final Girl Mode episode of 2022, we talk about our history with the series, fret about its future, and discuss why FFXIV is peak Final Fantasy, all while Robin struggles to remember a single character other than Freya.
Music: Order by ComaStudio
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Gaming's biggest night is here. That's right, it's time for the Girlies!!! Robin and Willa do something no one else has thought of and hold an award show for the best (and not-so-best) games of the year. Who will take home the coveted award of Game of the Year? Listen and find out!
Timestamps:
00:15 The Girlies, gaming's biggest night
52:50 What have Willa and Robin been up to?
Music: Order by ComaStudio
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It's a Girl Mode double feature! This week, Willa and Robin swap some of their favorite games of 2022, with unexpected results. We talk about what worked and didn't work for us in Sephonie and Signalis, a pair of games that couldn't look more different but are full of surprising parallels.
Then, it's the moment you've all been waiting for: Willa's festive jam tier list.
Timestamps:
00:30 Intro
03:20 Sephonie
36:00 Signalis
54:20 Major Signalis spoilers
1:28:20 What have Willa and Robin been up to this week?
Music: Order by ComaStudio
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Having trouble tackling your backlog? Just remember that death comes for us all! Girl Mode gives you more helpful tips like this to deal with the constant influx of games and the struggle of how we ever beat any of them (like that will happen). Then it's the fun things we've been up to and a special musical ending.
Timestamps:
(0:17) Contemplating backlogs and our own mortality.
(40:50) What have Robin and Willa been up to this week?
(44:23) Special musical surprise!
Intro music: Order by ComaStudio
Outro music: Fever Dream by The Dracu-Las
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With The Game Awards looming ominously on the horizon, our conflicted feelings on many of the nominees take up the bulk of this week's episode. We ask what an indie game even is, what realistic trees have to do with art direction, and what The Game Awards is for. Plus, Willa teaches Robin about theater.
It's the episode with the most exasperated sighs yet!
Timestamps:
(0:30) 40+ sustained minutes of Game Awards griping
(41:20) What have Willa and Robin been up to this week?
Music: Order by ComaStudio
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This week we look at the wonderful hidden gems from Nintendo's Indie World Showcase. Then we discuss Square Enix's long list of 2022 releases and if we can actually remember any of them, highlighted by Willa and Robin's opinions on the RPG / farming-sim Harvestella.
Timestamps:
(0:30) Gamers winning at the midterm elections... and also, trans rights may be intact
(5:44) Nintendo Indie World Showcase may be the best show in gaming
(14:18) The year of Square Enix
(32:37) What have Willa and Robin been up to this week?
Music: Order by ComaStudio
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This week, we delve into the end(?) of the website we all love to hate and some disappointing revelations about Final Fantasy XVI.
Then, we discuss how Apex Legends' new hero, Catalyst, and the latest Citizen Sleeper DLC put trans stories in the spotlight, drawing on recent interviews with Samantha Kalman, Meli Grant, and Gareth Damian Martin.
Timestamps:
(0:30) The Assassination of Twitter.com by the Coward Elon Musk,
(7:20) Some really messed up comments on race in Final Fantasy XVI,
(15:30) Catalyst! We stan a trans goth moon witch,
(29:40) Citizen Sleeper! We stan building community support as a bulwark against capitalist exploitation,
(43:50) What have Willa and Robin been playing this week?
Music: Order by ComaStudio
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