Digital Devil Pod: Shin Megami Letsplei

We do our best to process this past year and give our parting thoughts on Season 2. We also announce the 2024 slate of content. Spoiler alert: it's the Year of Persona. That's rite, Season 3 will be Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (PSP), and we'll also be hosting a monthly stream titled Persona the 4th where (you guessed it) we play Person 4 Golden!!! The back half is our personal highlights of the year from games to movies to music. Oh also the first batch of Patreon exclusive content will be dropping in the spring so get ready for a Persona horse of a different colour...Monark! Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

We do our best Winston Churchill impressions we could muster here. You already know what's going on at this point. Let's kick some ass, resurrect our friends, and close all these time loops once and for all. Tiny announce at the fin. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

The game *finally* delivers on the promise of the two storylines interacting somewhat as we barrel towards the climax, and our betrayers begin to receive their various comeuppances. What's your favorite way to eat pickles? Is it straight out of the jar? Do you enjoy the feeling of the vinegar on your fingertips? Sorry, I'm just trying to lighten the mood a bit cuz these DemiKids really go through some trauma in the back half of this thing. Comment down below your favorite Medabot #JustinsDudes Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

Saddle up gang, it's time to go kill Imperious...along with the facedancing physical manifestation of chaos or whatever. How much higher will the body count rise? Where will the powers of light and dark guide us? Will we be able to recover all 7 balls to revive our dead friends? At any rate, join us as we put DemiKids Dark Version (and another one of our machines) to rest. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

Once upon a time, DJ Khaled got lost on a jet ski at night (this may or may not have been the same time he jet ski'd (?) over to Future's house only to find out he wasn't home). The trials and tribulations of this episode mirror that of Khaled's nighttime Sea-Doo Saga as we briefly become a speck lost amidst a layercake of moments in spacetime across mulitple planes of reality. Erstwhile, the body count continues to rise as new layers of betrayal and intrigue get pealed back. The key is to make it. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

The time travel arc is in full effect as we bounce back and forth between exotic points in spacetime including our ruined future, present day Limbo, past tense Heaven, and a public park across many timelines. You ever wonder what it would be like if the PSP could still connect to modern wifi? What kind of shenangians you'd get into? Who you'd end up meeting at get togethers for folx who still play Siphon Filter: Dark Mirror online? Oh we also finally get to meet Imperius (in a flashback) and that whole scene plays out rather poorly for us! instagram.com/digitaldevilpod www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod

A very special episode where we cover McSwain guitars, freeze dried fruits, and how The Lamb Of God Guy wound up jailed in Eastern Europe. Don't worry though, we do make some headway in the game as well by clearing a couple more time rifts and putting together a plan of attack to rescue Lena from Imperius. We also learn something Very Upsetting about The Resistance's upper management! We may or may not learn this information in future heaven? Or maybe it's actually present limbo? The time skipping is frequent yet ultimately inconsequential here. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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? Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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). Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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! Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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. Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitaldevilpod Instagram: www.instagram.com/digitaldevilpod

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.

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.

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.

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?