Digital Devil Pod: Shin Megami Letsplei

S1E13: The iCarly Cinematic Universe

The shift from Mazurka to The Rotting Sea of Flames is one of the truer representations of the old turn of phrase "out of the frying pan, into the fryer" we've ever run across.  The game remains much the same, only now everything is protracted needlessly by resource drain, so we've clipped out the hours of lamenting our new situation and left you with some final thoughts on the book, a piece of Brent's truly bizarre fan-theory headcannon of Nickelodeon's live action sitcoms, and a few sojourns into some Extremely 90s videogame music marketing collabs.

 

Also, a named character from the broader SMT universe finally makes an appearance in-game. Boy howdy. We made it.

S1E14: Zensunni and the Art of Podcasting

Truly, we're brought to the brink on Satan's doorstep and beset by catastrophe (including a real life plague of wasps).  Just lots of pain, smiling through it all.  Wait a tick, who's this tiny comrade stuck in a bottle out here in the barren waste of the Sea of Flames?  What's your family's weird quirk that you probably don't even know is a quirk?

S1E15: I Felt That One In Me Bones

It's the penultimate episode, and after we take care of this here snake monster, we're going on the only real treasure hunt the game has to offer us.  We (mostly Brent) also deal with a brief bout of Stockholm Syndrome as we begin to feel the train pulling into the station, but that particular shine wears off quickly.  Very quickly.  Remember phone numbers being shoved haphazardly into popular songs?  Remember rentals?  We're getting very close now.  Wait, was that a hole in the floor?

S1E16: Congratulations!

No Nike, you know we do it.  We beat the game in this episode I mean.  We also try to make sense of an American Sniper + Punisher Skull window decal.  We also learn some crucial gameplay facts quite literally on Lucifer's doorstep.  Also, we touch on the possibility of a long running midwestern weekly radio variety show dealing permanent psychic damage to the mind of a child (that child being Brent).  Also, Justin reveals his true strategic genius when the entire party finds themselves in a bind.  Actually we all get paralyzed, bind wears off relatively quickly.

 

There will be more content between the end of this season and the beginning of Kyuuyaku Pt II.  Inquire within for more details.

Bonus Episode: Digital Devil Story OVA Pt 1

We wanted to really peal back the layers of the Original Video Animation accompaniment to the first round of DDS media, but unfortunately, there aren't many, and what's up in there mostly stinks.  So, in lieu of re-treading the same critiques we had of the books (listen to that episode if you haven't), we try to clue you in to some stuff we think is more deserving of your precious time.

 

Episode proper starts around 10:35.

 

I'm going to run back to the couch for some more SMTV now.

Bonus Episode: Digital Devil Story OVA Pt 2 (ft. Monica Coleslaw and Ali Jaafar)

We finally put a pin in this whole "Digital Devil Story" thing for the time being. What is protoplasm? What does it really mean for something to be "Lynchian"? How many different Lunchables have there been?  Monica Coleslaw and Ali Jaafar join us to answer these questions and more as we wax poetic about straight to VHS movies, religious children's media, and hot dogs.

 

The episode had to be recovered from the cloud after a computer crash in a lined-up but fairly un-mixed state so it might get a little cacophonous at times, apologies.

Season 2: Episode 0

We're back!  Herein, Bea and Justin explain what happened, what's happening, and what's going to happen with the project as we gear up for Season(s) 2, Demikids Dark & Light Versions!  That's right, Justin and Bea will be playing both versions of DemiKids (the bigtime Pokemon rip) for the Game Boy Advance and releasing each playthru as a concurrent season!

 

Also: Bea can't zero in on the correct amount of caffeine, Justin's last nerve is pinched, and the origins of a laxative cereal gag are explored.

 

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Season 2 Dark Version, Episode 1: Are We In Hell Right Now?

Episode 1 of Shin Megami Letsplei Season 2: DemiKids Dark Version for the Game Boy Advance

 

Join us as we start our journey through the *Dark Version* of DemiKids in Bea's half of Season 2!  The video version of this episode (and this episode only) is available for free on our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod) so maybe give that a peep if you feel so inclined!  Herein we meet the core of our new crew, new versions of characters we killed last go around, moonwalk backwards into hell at the end of the school day, and gather our first allies in the quest to save the entirety of the time-space continuum.

 

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Season 2 Light Version, Episode 1: Back To School (Demi Maggit)

Episode 1 of Shin Megami Letsplei Season 2: Demikids Light Version for the Game Boy Advance

 

It's the back to school double feature!  Come along with us and our protagonist, H.I.M., as we meddle in affairs above our grade level at the Rem City Wayside School and summon something foul in the library.  How bad would a transfer student from Valhalla stick out in a normal classroom?  Is Limbo really just a place for unbaptized babies or is there more it?  All this and more here on the first episode of Season 2 Light Version.

 

Also, why not check out the "Bea-side", Season 2 Dark Version? Perhaps take a peek at the video version (Bea-side only) on our patreon? (www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod) The video for the first episode is free!

 

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Season 2 Light Version, Episode 2: #WasteHisTime

Episode 2 of Shin Megami Letsplei Season 2: DemiKids Light Version for the Game Boy Advance

Now that we've got our DemiLegs under us it's time to peel back more of this combat system, even though we've chewed all our fingernails off in a metaphorical sense.  We also still haven't fully wrapped our noodles around the truth of the leveling system hidden behind the veil of a $60 eBay pricetag.  Later, the gang meets up again to discuss what we've collectively learned (little) about this whole time rift situation, we happen upon a good old fashioned fight club, and we run face first into a season long secret monster arc (unofficially powered by Nintendo Power).  ABPA (Always Be Pressing A).

 

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Season 2 Dark Version, Episode 2: You Seem Like A Reasonable Demon

We've named ourselves, we've met the gang, and we've proven ourselves to the Windmaster.  Traveling deeper into hel...I mean Dem, we arrive at the equivalent of a small tourist trap town just outside of Orlando Florida where the townsfolk won't stop yammering about this Orgel Room full of Maidens! Will we ever figure out the proper mechanism for leveling up our boy? Why don't people talk about Deus Ex enough? Was playing both of these games a mistake?  Maybe we'll get some answers this week.

 

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Season 2 Light Version, Episode 3: I’d Hate If You Showed Me Your Powers

We sure did waste a lot of brain power trying to figure out the negotiation system that ended up being completely randomized as usual didn't we?  Anyways, it's onto Hydraville as we finally start to click into the grooves and loops of the game now that all the systems confusions is largely in the past.  Dungeon time baby.  Also don't bother stealing our script for Leprechaun 8 we already have it copywriter. Yes, we're talking about the Leprechaun franchise again.

 

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Season 2 Dark Version, Episode 3: The Fundamental Truth

We're all smiles now that we've unlocked the keys to fusion and leveling (standing on the proper side of the counter) and it's time to take the fight to this meathead that's been blocking our path to Papa Lucifer.  Wait awaits us in Lucifer's Orgel Room?  Whose big idea was linear time in the first place?  Will Justin ever stop bringing up Guyver?  Will Bea ever stop bringing up Gundam Wing fan ficiton?  Will I ever use a different format for these blurbs?Find out on the next episode of Dragon Bal...uhh Demikids.

 

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Season 2 Light Version, Episode 4: Day 69 No Tree

We're gearing up to bust a captured rebel faction out of the prison cells of Limbo when we get some upsetting news regarding Leena's group.  Remember when warplanes had shark mouth's painted on them?  Tangents regarding transcendental black metal, the burst beat, and the Lesser Key of Solomon threaten to derail the entire episode.  Who is your favorite demon from Book 1 of the Lemegeton?

 

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Season 2 Dark Version, Episode 4: It’s (Not) A Boulder

Now that we've been given another grip of time chains and pointed in the direction of the Ice Temple, it's time to finally hit the ice biome! The Icy Aces task us with aiding in the rescue of King Icy from the clutches of the Imperial forces, we get a fun taste of the ol' "demons in the chest", and we play a fun little minigame of chip's challenge in the ice dungeon.  Later, we make our way through some new (to me) areas you might recognize from Justin's playthrough of Light Version! The game begins to remind us that it is, in fact, still a Shin Megami Tensei game, and we brush up against the focal point of the back half of the narrative.  That's right baby, we're time traveling.  Oh boy.

 

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