S4E27 - 2019 Summer Games and Movies - “Mario Maker 2, Spider-Man, Shadowbringers, and More”

In This Episode:

We discuss a bunch of the games and movies that are finally
releasing this summer!  We cover things like Mario Maker 2,
Spider-Man Far From Home, FFXIV Shadowbringers, Magic The
Gathering Arena Core Set 2020, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night,
Stranger Things Season 3, and more.  Plus we sneak in some
bonus geekery near the end of the show and Beej gets a new furry
friend.


Things are finally releasing again!  The late spring /
early summer slump looks like it’s over.


Mario Maker 2

BJ - Making levels is a lot more fun than I thought it
would be





New components

Void likes infinite Mario levels with more variety, but I
don’t really do the level building

We have an awesome Mario Maker 2 channel on our Discord
server that you should totally join and share your creations!

Mario has always been Void's favorite platformer

The story mode is fun since you get ~100 levels designed
by nintendo in the mario maker engine

BJ - I love just taking some time and seeing what the
“Newest” ones that have been uploaded are. I think that’s the
most fun to me. I’m not generally a fan of the most popular
ones




Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Void forgot that he never really liked the PS1 era of
Castlevania games. He is having a decent time with it but
thinks he had more fun with the 8-bit version, Curse of the
Moon.

This feels like a modern iteration of the PS1 era of
Castlevania games, so if you really enjoyed Symphony of the
Night and want a modern version of that, then you really
can't go wrong here.




Magic: The Gathering Arena - Core Set 2020

Core cards and concepts that relaunch for the year

They only use evergreen keywords

It’s made to be much more approachable for new players

Not as strong of a theme, which made more of an impact on
Void than hethought. He didn’t realize how much the theme
worked for him in the last few sets until he saw this core
set that is basically theme-less.



Mastery pass is like a season pass for the mastery tree
and gives you bonus rewards

Void is a bit less excited now that he sees what the Core
Set 2020 is.

He was most excited for premade decks because he l