THIS WEEK: Peter descends into a volcano to witness the ultimate showdown between Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima with Rio Hamamoto's work in Tekken 7 and Joe braves the terrifying natural elements to stop a potential nuclear terrorist attack in Di

OSC 260 - Punch-Out!! & Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

Jan 17th, 2024 1h 48m

THIS WEEK: Joe puts up his boxing gloves to reboot Nintendo's original fighting franchise on Wii in Punch-Out!! (2009) and Peter perceives lies in the courtroom with a magical bracelet to discover why a famous lawyer got disbarred with Toshihik

OSC 259 - Star Renegades

Jan 9th, 2024 26m 7s

THIS WEEK: Joe jumps between dimensions to stop a cyborg invasion using roguelike elements with Steve London's work in Star Renegades.

OSC 258 - Analogue: A Hate Story & F-Zero

Jan 5th, 2024 1h 34m

THIS WEEK: Joe retrieves the logs of a derelict spaceship while hearing suspicious stories from two AI companions with Isaac Schankler's work in Analogue: A Hate Story and Peter races into the Blue Falcon to show off power of Mode 7 on Super Ni

OSC 257 - Best of 2023

Dec 29th, 2023 2h 3m

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter present their combined list of the top 10 best game soundtracks of 2023

OSC 256 - God of War Ragnarök

Dec 19th, 2023 38m 49s

THIS WEEK: Peter prepares for the twilight of the gods across each of the nine realms all throughout a continuous camera shot with Hozier's work in God of War Ragnarök.

OSC 255 - Deus Ex

Dec 13th, 2023 48m 58s

THIS WEEK: Joe works as a physically augmented UNATCO agent to recover stolen shipments of a vaccine to a pandemic known as the Gray Death with Alexander Brandon's work in Deus Ex.

OSC 254 - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater & Ai Cho Aniki

Dec 6th, 2023 1h 32m

THIS WEEK: Peter collects S-K-A-T-E letters while pulling off sick skateboard combos with Brian Bright's work in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Joe flexes his inner bodybuilder with the sidescrolling shooter featuring fighting game inputs in Ai Cho

OSC 253 - Night in the Woods

Nov 29th, 2023 38m 33s

THIS WEEK: Peter returns home to Possum Springs to hang out with friends and uncover the town's darkest secret with Scott Benson's work in Night in the Woods.

OSC 252 - Thanksgiving 2023 Q&A

Nov 22nd, 2023 1h 13m

THIS WEEK: Joe and Peter take a Thanksgiving break from dissecting game soundtracks and the critical five songs within them, in order to answer some questions that have been asked by listeners

OSC 251 - Persona 2: Innocent Sin & Super Mario RPG

Nov 15th, 2023 1h 46m

THIS WEEK: Joe faces the forces of the Masked Circle as rumors in Sumaru are coming true with Masaki Kurokawa's work in Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Peter battles the sentient weapons of the Smithy Gang with their takeover of Star Road and the M

OSC 250 - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

Nov 7th, 2023 37m 43s

THIS WEEK: Joe vanquishes the Vile Four as a knight while watering down the popular JRPG formula to appeal to a new audience with Ryuji Sasai's work in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.

OSC 249 - Dead By Daylight & Pokémon Scarlet/Violet

Oct 31st, 2023 1h 51m

THIS WEEK: Joe teams up with three other survivors against a slew of slasher icons with Michel F. April's work in Dead by Daylight and Peter chooses between three narrative paths across the open world of the Paldea region in Pokémon Scarlet/Vio

OSC 248 - Metal Gear Solid 4 & Silent Hill 4

Oct 24th, 2023 1h 54m

THIS WEEK: Peter struggles with accelerated aging from FOXDIE as Liquid Ocelot launches his insurrection in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Joe tries to save his neighbor from certain death while being trapped in his cursed apartme

OSC 247 - Rule of Rose & Super Mario World

Oct 17th, 2023 1h 40m

THIS WEEK: Joe finds himself trapped on an airship with the worst group of children and a faithful dog named Brown with Yutaka Minobe's work in Rule of Rose and Peter takes the 2D platformer to the next level with Nintendo's 16-bit debut on SNE

OSC 246 - Immortality & Alone in the Dark

Oct 10th, 2023 1h 37m

THIS WEEK: Peter watches clips in an interactive movie trilogy to discover the fate of Marissa Marcel with Nainita Desai's work in Immortality and Joe solves the mystery of Jeremy Hartwood's death with the first survival horror adventure with 3

OSC 245 - World of Horror & Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Oct 2nd, 2023 1h 29m

THIS WEEK: Joe solves mysteries in Shiokawa that are inspired by Junji Ito to appease an Old God with Qwesta's work in World of Horror and Peter plays both sides of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta as The Eagle Bearer in Assassin

OSC 244 - Cyberpunk 2077 & Jack Move

Sep 26th, 2023 1h 28m

THIS WEEK: Peter needs to get Johnny Silverhand out of his mind while surviving in Night City with P.T. Adamczyk's work in Cyberpunk 2077 and Joe must rescue his father from Monomind as Bright Town deals with the fallout from an event called Th

OSC 243 - Blasphemous & Mortal Kombat

Sep 19th, 2023 1h 34m

THIS WEEK: Joe begins his pilgrimage as The Penitent One in a world filled with Spanish religious imagery with Carlos Viola's work in Blasphemous and Peter tests his might in the visceral fighting game defined by its fatalities in Mortal Kombat

OSC 242 - Baten Kaitos & Idol Showdown

Sep 12th, 2023 1h 51m

THIS WEEK: Peter channels the magical card powers of Magnus to stop the revival of the evil god Malpercio in Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean and Joe pits the VTubers of Hololive against each other in a fan-made fighting game with

OSC 241 - Steins;Gate & Fallout 4

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 43m

THIS WEEK: Joe discovers the secret to time travel and attracts the attention of dangerous individuals who seek it in Steins;Gate and Peter emerges from Vault 111 to avenge his spouse and find his son in The Commonwealth with Inon Zur's work in

OSC 240 - Civilization IV & Planet Zoo

Aug 29th, 2023 1h 30m

THIS WEEK: Peter dives into 4X strategy to guide a growing empire towards supremacy in Civilization IV and Joe builds a public collection of animals while dealing with all of the elements that go into running that business with J.J. Ipsen's wor

OSC 239 - Death's Door & Vampire Survivors

Aug 22nd, 2023 1h 21m

THIS WEEK: Joe must collect three giant souls in order to unravel the bureaucratic secrets of the afterlife in Death's Door and Peter only has to move for a roguelike where you become the bullet hell with Daniele Zandara's work in Vampire Survi

OSC 238 - Transistor & Space Channel 5

Aug 15th, 2023 1h 40m

THIS WEEK: Peter equips Functions into a sword with a consciousness to fight back against The Process in Transistor and Joe reports on the Morolian invasion of Earth while countering with the power of dance with Mariko Nanba's work in Space Cha

OSC 237 - A Space for the Unbound

Aug 8th, 2023 40m 9s

THIS WEEK: Joe gets thrown into supernatural circumstances alongside his high school sweetheart as reality doesn't seem to add up with Masdito Bachtiar's work in A Space for the Unbound.