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Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Part 2: A Chat About Eggs, Man Mar 03, 2025

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Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Part 2: A Chat About Eggs, Man Square Roots - Episode 453 Level Up Starts at 01:39:00

Jim's out on a date, so we're gonna be a little insane on this episode Square Roots. Vanessa's on probation, Johnny's gone waffles crazy, and Matt does nothing but read books now. But we're playing what Vanessa calls a Gateway JRPG, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood by BioWare. Vanessa is kind of Pokécurious, and the Chaos are somehow making it worse. And now we've got all sorts of new Sonic Friends to join our party, like Big, Knuckles, Cream and Bobby De Niro!

Also: One Date Per Year With A Host Of Your Choice The Most Canadian Thing Johnny's Ever Said Eggman's Treasure Trail Marvel Didn't Create Let's Get Some Magic Stones All Hedgehogs Are Related Is This A Snow Zone?

This Week: Finish Chapters 3 & 4! Next Week: Finish Chapters 5 & 6!

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Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Part 1: Charmy the Bee is Still an Ongoing Concern. Feb 24, 2025

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Square Roots - Episode 452 Level Up Starts at 02:09:00

SEGA and BioWare form the ultimate dream team for our new season of Square Roots! That's right, we're tackling the Sonic RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and finally we get stylus based controls and dialogue trees in our sonic games! Plus this game has all sorts of deep cuts: there's Vector from Knuckles Chaotix on the 32X! Big the Cat! Cream! Rouge the Bat! Who will be next? Fang the Sniper? Espio the Chameleon? The sky's the limit!

Also: Maybe if GameStop focused less on woke and more on wake, Alan Wake that is. She seems like a SNES girlie. I don't like a tude dude! Vanessa's good nice water cooler chat! 8 year olds can fly planes, but not very well.

This Week: Finish Chapters 1 & 2 of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood! Next Week: Finish Chapters 3 & 4!

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Thief: The Dark Project Part 5 - The Ratman Mystery Feb 17, 2025

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Square Roots - Episode 451 Level Up Starts at 01:27:30

We finally meet Matt's favourite friends, Thief: The Dark Project's Rat Men. Or... are they dinosaurs? This might seem like an easy question, but the more images we get of the supposed rat men, the more questions we have. Like: why do they have a forked tail? Are they monkeys? Why do they sound like Gollum?

Also: Thief: The Woodsy Conspiracy The Fluffy Wuffy Sonic Boys The Coaster of the Goblin Soft Like A Woman The Terrible Results Of Our Vote

This Week: Finish the game! Next Week: Finish Chapters 1 & 2 of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood!

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Thief: The Dark Project Part 4 - A Very Whispery Mission Feb 10, 2025

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Thief: The Dark Project Part 4 - A Very Whispery Mission Square Roots - Episode 450 Level Up Starts at 01:20:30

This time even the DLC level is pretty great in this penultimate chunker of Thief! It's an eye-poppingly good time as we infiltrate the Hammerites, do chores for a ghost, and go for a surprise night at the opera. Also: - The Gene Shallot of Video Game Hosts - Further Adventures In Jim's Spider Revulsion - Inside Your Mind - Operatic Exposition - It's Not the Lost City, It's *A* Lost City - Bonk All The Boys

This Week: Finish missions ten through twelve! Next Week: Finish the game!

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Thief: The Dark Project Part 3 - This City Ain't Lost Any More, Is It Feb 03, 2025

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Square Roots - Episode 449 Level Up Starts at 01:19:45

This time in the sneaky Looking Glass classic game Thief, Johnny, Jim and Matthew tackle some levels! Can you guess which ones are DLC and which were in the original release? Probably? There's a chunk of the city that was lost to a cataclysm, some colour coded mages towers, and a chunk of the city also lost to a cataclysm! Also: - Feet Pix Are Classy, Scat Pix Are Nasty - The Puzzle Is Water - A Matt Situation - Earth Towers Are Easy - Good Smooth Brain Puzzles Are Easy - The Lava Lever - It Puts A Little Fire Baby In Your Tummy - The Rope is the First Real Boss of the Game

This Week: Finish missions seven through nine in Thief! Next Week: Finish missions ten through twelve!

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Thief: The Dark Project Part 2 - A Little Moss Volcano Jan 27, 2025

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Square Roots - Episode 448 Level Up Starts at 01:24:20

We're all thieves, and sometimes thieves take their time and don't play to where they say they're going to. So we blasted through missions 4 through 6, which takes us through a fancy mansion, two fancy mansions connected by a sewer, and then a fancy but spooky mansion! Fortunately we make a new friend dripping with moss and friendly good intentions! What could PAWSIBLY go wrong?! Also: - Throw Mommy a Bone! - Vanessa Won't Laugh in Her Special Way - No More Bresdan Balls - Tea With Chewsdays Podcast, Innit - Microsoft Edging

This Week: Finish missions four through six in Thief! Next Week: Finish missions seven through ten, unless that's too long and then nine.

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Thief: The Dark Project Part 1 - Jim's Hole Sale Prices Jan 20, 2025

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Square Roots - Episode 447 Level Up Starts at 01:44:15

Now that Sea of Stars is over we can promise one thing: no more Garl puns. Now we're on to Thief: The Dark Project by Looking Glass Studios. Enjoy the intense 90s cutscenes! Revell in the developers voicing many side characters! Quiet down your steps with moss arrows! Explode some zombies with holy water! We all approach this early first person sneaker in different ways, so play along and get stealin'! Also: - Feed! That! Algorithm! - TOO GROSS! - A Dictate Guy! - Animal Crossing Means Not Okay! - The Raddest Music You've Ever Heard! - Googaws and Boobaws!

This Week: Finish the first three missions of Thief! Get it for cheap on GOG today! Next Week: Finish missions four through seven!

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Sea of Stars - Part 6: James Acaster Plays Leisure Suit Larry Jan 13, 2025

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Square Roots - Episode 446 Level Up Starts at 02:03:30!

It's a wrap on Sea of Stars this chunker, and someone didn't finish! And it's not who you think! We go through the two endings, talk to some fish, meet a tiger man, and go through a gross castle full of goop and body parts. YEAH! Also: - Garl Interrupted - Garl's Just Want To Have Fun - Who's That Garl? - Garls On Film! - Never Met A Garl Like You Before - Garl, You'll Be A Warrior Cook Soon - Brown-Eyed Garl - California Garls

This Week: Finish Sea of Stars! Next Week: Finish the first three missions of Thief! Get it for cheap on GOG today!

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Sea of Stars Part 5: Are You Gonna Be My Garl? Jan 06, 2025

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We are sure that the technical issue that caused the original second half of this episode to be lost won't be noticed and the transition to the new recording will be seamless. Garl finds himself being the true hero of this game as he now has a near-death vision explaining what he needs to do before he dies.

Level Up: 01:48:15

Also:

* Squish Squish Squish * A Lot of Feet Talk * I Might Be The Threshold * Gary Busey in "Make Friends With The Devil" * Jim's second most hated song, Zephyr * Chrono Trigger! Final Fantasy! Hee hee!

This Week: Travel through the Sea of Stars! Next Week: Finish Sea of Stars!

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Sea of Stars - Part 4: A Sith Puzzle For Babies Dec 30, 2024

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Square Roots - Episode 444 Level Up Starts at 01:36:00!

Finally, we return to the Sea of Stars and a lot of stuff happens in this chunker! There's gorilla kids! Elderly enslaved kids! You sail into a mouth! And you get a secret weapon that morphs solstice magic into a [REDACTED] attack! Also: - An Edgier Pac-Man - Don't You Dare Make Fun of Capitalism! - Matt Loves A Good Pear - Mattholics! - "It's Too Late For This One!" - Garl Is The Wheels of Sea of Stars - Vanessa's Personal Mouse War

This Week: Play to the end of the Clockwork Castle! Next Week: Travel through the Sea of Stars!

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