122: Last Day of June

122: Last Day of June

Author: Left Behind Game Club June 30, 2021 Duration: 45:15
We lament the loss of June in Last Day of June. Developer: Ovosonico | Publisher: 505 Games | Initial Release: 31 August 2017



Jacob, Mike and special guest Flora Merigold replay the past, hit A on things and prevent tragedies.



Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt) & Mike Ruffolo (@ruffolom)
Special Guest: Flora Merigold, co-founder of EpilogueGaming.com Twitter: @LudonarrativeFM | Twitch: @LudoFM





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SHOW NOTES:

1:20 All about Flora
3:30 Our fast pitch about Last Day of June
5:00 What did you know about Last Day of June going into it?
7:00 How did we play (with technical difficulty)?
9:15 What is Last Day of June?
15:15 Was our time being used well?
21:25 Let's talk about the look and music of the game
28:45 The gift
31:40 Question from @StoryEverPod: "...how caught off-guard were you?"
36:05 Final thoughts about Last Day of June
39:10 The Recommendation Machine - Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, That Dragon, Cancer & Before Your Eyes
41:50 Final thoughts and show close

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* July 7, 2021 Hitman 2 [Whittleton Creek] (ft. Jacob, Mike and Moe)
* July 21, 2021 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - The Game (ft. Jacob and special guests Travis Colenutt and Katie Lesperance)
* August 4, 2021 Hitman 2 [Isle of Sgàil] (ft. Jacob, Mike and Moe)
* August 18, 2021 Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (ft. Jacob, Mike, Moe and special guest Shane Chiasson)






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168: Chrono Trigger [Part 2] [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:13
We continue our time travels in part 2 of our Chrono Trigger series. Developer: Square | Publisher: Square | Initial Release: August 11, 1995 Jacob, Travis, Katie, and Flora talk about Bulma from Dragonball, amazing musi…
167: Chrono Trigger [Part 1] [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:27
We travel through time in part 1 of our Chrono Trigger series. Developer: Square | Publisher: Square | Initial Release: August 11, 1995 Jacob, Travis, and Katie talk about JRPGs, which type of characters they gravitate t…
166: Coffee Talk [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:32
We drink lots of caffeine in Fantasy Seattle thanks to Coffee Talk. Developer: Toge Productions | Publisher: Toge Productions, Chorus Worldwide, Serenity Forge | Initial Release: January 29, 2020 Jacob, Flora, and specia…
165: PAX East 2023 Mega Show [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:53:40
We went down to Boston to play video games in our PAX East 2023 episode! This is our last piece of audio about PAX East, promise. Jacob, Flora, Katie and Travis became friends in real life, waited in lines and played lot…
164: Video Game Trivia Live 2 (from PAX East 2023) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:02:15
Video Game Trivia Live returned to PAX with its first trivia gauntlet in Boston! This competitive trivia game hosted by Jacob McCourt pits three teams of content creators and the video game press against the entire audie…
163: Nintendo Gamecube Retrospective (Live from PAX East 2023) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:51
2001 was an excellent year for gaming, thanks to the little purple lunch box that could. In this special bonus episode of the podcast, live at PAX East 2023, some of the biggest fans of the Nintendo Gamecube were assembl…
162: Hi-Fi RUSH [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:43
We hit things with a guitar really well in Hi-Fi RUSH. Developer: Tango Gameworks | Publisher: Bethesda Softworks | Initial Release: January 25, 2023 Jacob, Flora, and special guests Adam Gumbert, Michael Higham & Brende…
161: Yakuza 0 [Part 2] [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:00
We think a lot about back tattoos in the second part of our Yakuza 0 series. Developer: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio | Publisher: Sega | Initial Release: January 24, 2017 Flora, Katie, and special guest Matt Storm tearaway our j…
Announcement: Changes to the Podcast [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:19
It’s the end of an era… the Left Behind Game Club is changing. Read the full text below or listen to the announcement: After over 160 episodes over five and half years, our release cadence will be slowing down. Going for…
160: Subsurface Circular [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:31
We ride the train with robots in Subsurface Circular. Developer: Mike Bithell Games | Publisher: Mike Bithell Games | Initial Release: August 17, 2017 Jacob, Flora, Travis and special guest Scott White ask a lot of quest…